Frame with LED lighting installed

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Here's a frame we did up which incorporated the use of LED lights. Its overall size is 1100 x 800mm,using NR Glass. It is on display in a doctor's surgery waiting room.....the instruments were used by the doctor's father who had was a GP back in the 1880's / 1890's
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The stetascope on the left and the large syringe are secured with ss wire , the centre ear inspection kit is held in place with a clear perspex sheet and posts so that the box can remain open, and we also used a perspex strip to retain part of the blood pressure instrument on the right. The frame is secured on the wall with a french cleat and the power cable is fed thru the wall behind.
 
COOL!!!!!!!!

What kind of light did you use? Do you have a picture? I need to do this! :D
 
Very nice....

Now for a wee bit of fun........

Just how old is that doc? Is there something in the water (or whiskey) over there in the emerald isles that promotes longevity?

I figure that papaDoc must have been born no later than 1860 to have been a GP in the 1880s and even if he had sonDoc when he was 60, son Doc would be at least 90 now..................and he is still practicing? Maybe it was GrandPaDoc?
 
blackiris said:
What kind of light did you use? Do you have a picture? I need to do this! :D
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You can use white Christmas light strings............. although they might be a tad harder to get this time of year. They come AC as well as battery operated, the controller can be set to continuous being on vs twinkling.

The pure white (5300k) are the hardest to find.
 
Larry Peterson said:
Very nice....

Now for a wee bit of fun........

Just how old is that doc? Is there something in the water (or whiskey) over there in the emerald isles that promotes longevity?

I figure that papaDoc must have been born no later than 1860 to have been a GP in the 1880s and even if he had sonDoc when he was 60, son Doc would be at least 90 now..................and he is still practicing? Maybe it was GrandPaDoc?
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Ok .....Looks like I got the maths wrong........papaDoc must have been born in the 1880's !!

Thanks
Tom
 
For anyone who's a bit handy with low voltage wiring and a soldering iron, it's pretty easy to take apart and use the many and varied LED flashlights, puck lights, etc. that are available nowadays. Since LEDs use relatively little power, the batteries last a lot longer than they used to with filament type bulbs, and you get a lot more light per volt.
:cool: Rick
 
LED Lighting within the frame - pics when assembling

I just came across some pics I had taken when we were putting this frame together.
We used 2 different LED arrays, which we had at hand.
Youll see a long flexible set across the top - this is like a rubber rope , containing the string of LED's - these gave a bright light.
The other consisted of a set of four rigid strips , wiring from mini junction box - these 4 strips were placed adjacent to the main openings to give additional light. They gave a much warmer light. All were affixed with plastic cable ties.
 

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Very impressive, and a nice clean design to showcase the antique instruments.
 
Thanks for showing the progress photos. This is a great example of a project using (as I think Jim calls them) sub-assemblies for showcasing individual items within an overall display. I would enjoy seeing an article in PFM about this project, talking about the materials and techniques used, and discussing the issues of safety, heat buildup, etc. that come into play with internally lighted frames.

Again, great job on this.
:thumbsup: Rick
 
Overheating

Would there be an issue with the lights overheating? Overall this seems like a great Idea and I would love to give something like this a shot! What are your thoughts of using Rice Lights?
 
LED Frame Lighting - a simple layout

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We did up another LED lit framing job last week. We will be attending a trade stand in September at our national "ploughing competition" in September , so we did up this frame for a launch / press release last week. Overall it depicts an overview / history of this competition since it began 81 years ago......consists of 2 x A4 text sheets / 1 photo of "horse" ploughing along with an old horse shoe and an old point of a plough. ( These were heavily rusted so we had them shot-blasted and powder-coated with a transparent sealing layer.)
We plan on having it on display at our stand during the 3 days of the competition
This one was more straightforward, as we had only to use one of the light strings. I have attached a few photos to show the layout.

Overall , the job consists of
1> Deep rebate wood frame
2>NR Glass
3>Mat / Mount with photo & text panels attached

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4> 1/4" - 6mm slip of 2" depth ( slip used is painted black , but could be raw or anything else of this depth to give support / spacing to match the depth of the 2 cove boxes containing objects. )
5> MDF Backboard with 2 cove boxes (2" deep) , positioned to align with mat / mount openings , glued on to backboard with PVA ( the cove boxes are substantially larger than the corresponding mat / mount openings so that the lighting remains concealed.

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6>LED lighting string with 12v power supply.....all attached with cable ties.

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Many Thanks
Tom
 
Glad to see this posting, comments and pictures. I have two large, 3'x5', projects to do. Each involves mounting and lighting a celebrity's dress. I checked out these led strip lights, http://shop.ledwholesalers.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=39_81_97&product_id=80 and wondered what you thought about them? I'm not secure in my knowledge of them to know if they would be the right thing to use, etc.... I also wondered about heat build up, although they would only be on for 15 minutes at a time. Thanks for any advice you can send my way!
 
Old thread but it was great taking a walk down memory lane and see what we did "back then" for LEDs.

led wholesalers are great, their lights are super bright, easy to work with.

I got my hands on some led strip lights from Amazon. I have a 165 foot long string with 500+ lights on it and another one that is 33 feet long and has over 100 lights on it. They were really quite inexpensive and had a lot of color options as well as dimming features.
 
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