- October 7th, 2016, 9:54 pm#4882550
A year or so ago I purchased a new charging cable for my iPhone. The cable was made from EL-Motion wire. Its twisted Electro Luminescent wires with a driver that flashes each wire in sequence to give the illusion of electricity moving through the wire. I immediately though of how amazing this would look added to a proton pack. Giving it the illusion of all that power moving through the packs various tubes and wires. The cost of the charging cable was prohibitive to be able to buy enough and hack up for a pack. After some research I found a source out of Great Britain for Ultra Bright Motion EL-wire. A few weeks ago I ordered enough to replace all the colored wires and tubes on a pack. This post will cover my upgrade. As far as I know no one has used Motion EL-wire on a pack on anything GBFs have posted. I have seen a few posts with standard EL-wire but the motion gives it a whole new level. I also will be adding sound with a Matty Blaster card from Spongeface, lights and the E-cig upgrade outlined by jimfin.
Last night I started fitting the Motion EL-wire and testing brightness. Here is a link to the video of the test.
https://youtu.be/MY4jeMmWVvk
I think it looks pretty awesome! My goal is to alter the static view as little as possible but take the working view to the next level. Especially in low light situations. I plan on sleeving the EL-wire with tinted tubing to make it look more substantial and stock as much as possible. I was able to find some gas line tubing that is tinted red slightly. But this weekend I am toying around with RIT dyeing clear tubing into red, blue or yellow respectively.
As you can see the normally yellow wire is currently green in EL-wire. Yellow was not available and the untrained observer will never notice. Hopefully the tinted tubing will help make it more yellow.
Last night I started fitting the Motion EL-wire and testing brightness. Here is a link to the video of the test.
https://youtu.be/MY4jeMmWVvk
I think it looks pretty awesome! My goal is to alter the static view as little as possible but take the working view to the next level. Especially in low light situations. I plan on sleeving the EL-wire with tinted tubing to make it look more substantial and stock as much as possible. I was able to find some gas line tubing that is tinted red slightly. But this weekend I am toying around with RIT dyeing clear tubing into red, blue or yellow respectively.
As you can see the normally yellow wire is currently green in EL-wire. Yellow was not available and the untrained observer will never notice. Hopefully the tinted tubing will help make it more yellow.