source for battery-operatedLED lights?

Mike LeCompte CPF

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Have four African cow-bone art sculptures to do in a shadowbox. Want to illuminate these with LED light strips but want the strips to be battery operated so we can turn it on/off with a microswitch located in the frame itself.

using either LJ's Primitive deep box profile or LJ's Java, less-deep profile. each box is relatively small--about 18 x 24 or so--so perhaps the LED strips will be installed all around the inside of the box.

anyone know sources for LEDs battery operated? Am contacting local hobby stores concentrating on modelrailroading but, since this is Knoxville and not Atlanta/Chicago/ etc my stores are somewhat limited.

Help please????
 
Mike, see if these will fill the bill:

http://www.weddingflowersandmore.com/lights.html

battery operated light strings with color intensity only available using LED's, 12 lights per string, round mini faceted ball caps approx 6" spacing, light strings are connectable up to 5 strings and powered by 3AA batteries (not included), 40+ hours of continuous battery life on sing strings. less if connected together, one string. specify: red, green, white or blue


White Accents Battery Operated String Lights
order number: flofp-ac100w
Price $13.50 / each
 
Those little lights actually generate a fair amount of heat, don't they, especially when boxed in? Wouldn't you have to vent that somehow, and therefore compromise the dust/critter protection that sealing the frame offers? Are there "cool" lights available? I have a project pending for something similar, and have been wondering about that.
 
Rope lights at Home Depot, or google 12 volt rope lights

Or fiber optics?

Novelty lights has some interesting rope lights, and clips and tracks.

Tons of sources including RV and Solar power stores.
 
thanks guys. Forgot all about Google.

And, no, the lights do not generate heat. We've done this countless times with other boxes butused normal 120v., home-outlet type lights. This is the first time we're doing battery operated.

And yeah I thought about tearing apart some of my picture lights, but why? They sell for $40-75 apiece and that's quite a loss tearing them apart
 
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