<font size="3"><font color="blue">The Lightech blade I have has some sort of paper diffuser in it.
And there's so much space inside that thinner tube that the EL wire rattles around horribly in it.</font id="blue"></font id="size3">[xx(]
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yeah, mines like that too, the wires do rattle around if ya bang it or shake it reall hard. but the diffuser in it is a plastic very thin walled tube, which left boocoos of room inside it for wires.
i think you could cram twice the amount in there, with al the room it has, but then, findin a el driver big enough to power that much wire. i think youd definately have to run 18 volts off a big ole driver that wouldnt fit in a hilt. but, im guessin there. since i only done a couple el's before i run across this place and done a led, and once youve gone led, you'll never go back to anything less.
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i have bought el setup from lighttech long before i found this site, and the diffuser was a tube just like in tims, he didnt have a film then.
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When did Mike start doing that? Last time I talked to him about it (I don't know over a year or two ago) he was convinced the diffuser tube JLo and I were using (think we were the only one's at the time) was the way of the devil, has he since seen the light? lol
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<font size="3"><font color="blue">Then Mike must have stolen MY idea of the tube diffuser, since I was the first, non-commercial person to do that, that I'm aware of.[!]
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dont know, i'd have to dig out the blade and take it apart to look. but last i looked it sure looked like a very thin tube, and it didnt look like paper to me. more like plastic. but i will checjk again when i have time. my wife said i got it about 2 years ago. i will just have to take the plug end out and look at it. i could be wrong, but who knows.
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If you got it from Lightech it should be a diffuser paper/plastic material kinda like mylar.
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I'm still trying to figure out a way to use a 3/4 inch x 1/8 inch wall x 40 inches blade for an LED. Corbin says it can be done with a 1/16 wall, but doesn't recommend the thicker wall. I need a heavier blade to duel with. Anybody done one?
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My recomendation is to use the 10 Degree lense (I know you'd think the 5 would work better but it doesn't) and a rollable diffuser, the el diffusers stink for this because they have a bend in them and there isn't enough room for the light to shine well up the tube. Ultimately the choice is yours but you need a thin/ridged/straight diffuser to make the most of the small area the light has to travel through.
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