Does anyone make a panel lamp shade off-the-shelf? Something like a quarter section of a prolate spheroid (American) "football-shape" out of brass, say, that mounts to a rack chassis you could then fit a lamp underneath so it projects light downward over some non-illuminated controls?
Shade for panel-mount lighting
Dec 02, 2019
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I feel like there might be a part like this for the aviation industry for control panels on planes, maybe.
A number-plate light?
When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.
Wow, something like this would be perfect:
Like on an old-timey car.
I don't think I've ever owned a car where the number-plate lighting wasn't integrated into the body. rotary telephone sort of thing.
I was thinking of the ones used on cargo trailers etc. eg:
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When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.
Sounds fragile... but you could array those axial lamps
and an intriguing possibility is to use glow-in-the-dark tape (or fluorescent paint) with a line of UV LEDs; the only part that sticks out is the fluorescent strip, which faces down on the controls, while the exciting light (aimed in spotty fashioon from a lens) neither hits the eyes, nor does its reflection, being invisible, distract.
Fluorescence means the output light is totally diffused (Lambertian) from the shaped emitting surface.
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