Plastic encased LED's?
 

OK so I figure that you guys would know this. I was wondering if there is some sort of plastic resin or epoxy to encase LED's such that when you light up the LED, the whole resin piece lights up with it.

you can create such a piece, just remember the light needs to refract off of something so if its plain clear plastic, you will need to make etches in it.

:yes:

What specific application are you using it for?

Take a dremel and make little cuts into a solid plastic tube, between 1/3 and 1/2 of the way down. The light will refract off those, and illuminate the tube, but it wont be one solid color, there will be a bunch of bright spots.

great info guys, you could make some angel eyes with them :reechy:

on my home computer i have a link how to diy angel eyes.

i was gonna do them on my civic a few years back :oh:

:uhhok:

It's indicator lighting for a school project, but it needs to be about the brightness of a turn signal.

I'd actually be really interested in seeing this...this may be what I'm looking for :)

next tme i use my home computer - which may not be for 4994 years, ill dig this up and post it for you. in the meantime try a search, you might find the same link here someplace

This should help, if you do use it commercially please give us some credit. It has the requirements and specs to make a full blown encased LED light system. Thanks.

http://geocities.com/wvudesignteam/LVGS/final_doc.pdf

The part you will find useful is pages 118-119.

Image of what we designed looks like...