Electroluminescent sheet cutting

These are not trivial to terminate as you need to connect to the transparent top electrode. You can buy stuff which is designed to be connected to with clips - you can cut it but you need to have one of the original edges as these have contact points.

Using seperate ready-made panels would be the best option, as these will be properly sealed for longest life.

You can cut it simply but it won't last so long as properly sealed types because of humidity intrusion.

cu - Henry

There is a lot of good information on this site:

And if you have some volume they can make custom units up for you. I do not know about prices. I am in no way associated with this company. I HAVE only seen their products.

It will be resealed in a double sided clear laminate type material. This final product is intended to be a 'mat' of sorts (but not for walking on). So i think they wont need to be individually sealed if the mat itself it sealed properly.

The problem is more of a 'can i add electrodes'. Any ideas how this can be done ?

I realise some material comes with one side ready for 'clips', but they are 'small pieces' and expensive. I want to use a large cheaper mat, cut it up, add electrodes and then reseal the whole thing in laminate. :)

Maybe not possible, oh well. I have already ordered the previously mentioned RS sheets (with 1 side of clip electrodes) - i will use them for prototyping. But they are expensive for the final product.

Thanks :)

Alex.

Humidity intrusion is very hard to prevent.

It fully diffuses throughout the hard black plastic of silicon chip packages within a few tens of hours.

I suspect thin plastic laminate isn't going to slow the process much.

These guys must be buying rolls of it, and cutting it up to order. Thats great. So, how to they add electrodes ? :)

Thanks for the link - perhaps i will ask them :)

The reason i am so stuck on this question is because we want to be able to rapid prototype signage/cutouts - and the cheapest way would be to use cutouts from large sheets and our own electrodes. We have many uses of this stuff, and atleast in the begining large quantity custom shapes wont be needed. Well, thats if we can add our own electrodes.

Alex.