Flat LED like the GBA Afterburner?

[djheater]

I need a flat LED panel with a 4" diagonal, where could I find one? anybody know?

 

[CZroe]

The Afterburner is not one big clear LED. LEDs do not emit light from the clear plastic. Instead, the afterburner emits light from a dense row of LEDs on the bottom. It then passes up through the "Light Guide" which is what you are thinking is the light source. The light guide has internal etchings that bounce light out one side and allow it to reflect back through itself. Due to its design, you can not view it from certain angles. Try tilting some of the front-lighted PDAs toward you to see what I mean This also means that you can not install it backwards as light would exit the wrong end. The light guides cost $10 from www.tritonlabs.com if you can provide your own light-source

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: CZroe
The Afterburner is not one big clear LED. LEDs do not emit light from the clear plastic. Instead, the afterburner emits light from a dense row of LEDs on the bottom. It then passes up through the "Light Guide" which is what you are thinking is the light source. The light guide has internal etchings that bounce light out one side and allow it to reflect back through itself. Due to its design, you can not view it from certain angles. Try tilting some of the front-lighted PDAs toward you to see what I mean This also means that you can not install it backwards as light would exit the wrong end. The light guides cost $10 from www.tritonlabs.com if you can provide your own light-source

Hmmm....

by any chance do you know the source of the afterburners light? Is it a standard LED or something different. What i'm actually looking for is (I understood the concept of the light direction but did not relizae it was a seperate piece) a high effective lumen output light source to put behind a 4" LCD. The more powerful the better. triton labs does sell replacement shields but only for the size of the Afterburner which is unfortunately smaller than I need.

 

[CZroe]

It's something different. I ordered replacement light guides for two of the three Afterburners I've had seperate. One AB seems irretrievably gone. When the light guide was removed, a riveted clear plastic "stick" thing fell out of the light-source end. I looked down in the shell and it was empty, so the LEDs must be built into eachother in this plastic stick thing which now has no contact with anything in the Afterburner. None of the others had anything loose so I'm pretty sure that these are broken.

 

[djheater]

The problem is finding a retailer who carries anything like this at ANY price....

It's all OEM stuff, or so it seems. if anybody has a suggestion for a retailer who seems to carry a large selection of LED's let me know, I may resort to sending out beg-mails, and see if they'll special order it for me.

 

[CZroe]

Following Adam's story on Triton Labs's old site makes it seem like that's what he did to find a supplier

Too bad he's so adamant about keeping his sources secret.

Perhaps you can request "samples" or something (I think that's what he was doing).

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: CZroe
Following Adam's story on Triton Labs's old site makes it seem like that's what he did to find a supplier

Too bad he's so adamant about keeping his sources secret.

Perhaps you can request "samples" or something (I think that's what he was doing).

I just requested a sample of some light redirecting film from 3m.... I'll have to see how that goes...

 

[CZroe]

LMK how that goes... I may need some some day