LED Light

[cartar929]

We finally got our new sign up for our office. The sign is a back light LED halo style sign, made using hdu. I cut the letters on the backside with a channel big enough to fit the LED lights in.

The LED's were supplied by N.Glantz & Son and they were very helpful and informative with the process, since I needed a lot of info because this was my first LED install. I haven't had a chance to see the sign when it is truly dark outside, however I hear it is extremely bright and easy to read. The pictures shown are about as dark outside as I have been able to have seen it in yet.

The sign is stud mounted and used PVC spacers to hide the studs and the wires that had to be fished through the building. The smaller letters were just foam taped and siliconed onto the building.

Anyway I was wondering if anybody else had used LED's much and maybe had some examples to show. I think it is something I would like to do more of because it adds a different element to the sign, and was a pretty cool project to work on, and is something I still want to know more about.

[signtist]

Nice job!
How do you remove the letters to replace the lights?

[cartar929]

I am not really sure of the best way to do that. I would try to pull the letter out of the wall. I over sized the holes for the studs in the wall and glopped them full of silicone.

I guess if it really came down to it I would more than likely have to replace the letter(s). I suppose if it were aluminum instead of hdu letters I would be able to pull on the letters a lot harder because I wouldn't have to worry about them breaking.

I am not really sure of the best way to go about that for a future project, anyone have any ideas?

[sailfl]

Would you share what kind of price the LEDs cost?

Thanks

[cartar929]

Nils I would be glad to, but the thing is I am not sure of the exact price. I believe our sales rep from N.Glantz worked out a deal with my boss. Also, the literature that I have doesn't have a price labeled for the lights, but I think that you have to buy them quantities of 100 (there is a 116 in this sign our rep hooked us up with some lights laying around their warehouse).

The brand is JT LED and these lights were at the same brightness as the Sloan's (I saw the comparison). I also know that this brand was considerably cheaper than Sloan my sales rep mentioned that all of his clients are buying this brand now, and seem to be happy with it's light quality and durability. Supposedly the can get them for such a good price because they are able to cut out the middle man importing these from China.

The supplier is N.Glantz and Son (http://www.nglantz.com/) if you contact their site you should be able to get in contact with someone that can meet you in your area. If you aren't getting help from them then ask to speak to Angelo Pastrana, he is our sales guy in our area. But, he should be able to get you some help if you really need it.

Sorry that I couldn't have been more exact with the price, but I know the price is supposed to be very good because of their importing situation.

[myxpykalix]

http://www.superbrightleds.com
http://www.ledworldlighting.com/
http://www.creativelightings.com/

here are a few google led lighting and you will find tons. LED lighting is relatively inexpensive and what i like is that it is bright and very long lasting 30,000 hours average.

[joe]

We purchase Sloans for $14.00 a running foot. The transormers are about $50.00 each and push approx 30'. I chose this vendor because the lights were smaller and closer together. That gave us one extra light per foot. There may a better product but this was what I found.

Working with LED's is very easy.

Joe crumley
www.normansign.com

[joe]

Here are a few snaps showing our latest LED work. I'm look forward to photographing the finished sign with waterfalls this coming week. At this time we are making a 32' top cap from eps foam. There are four 8' sections 3' wide. At this time we're coating them out with epoxy. The traditional caps are made from concrete.

[sailfl]

Joe

Very nice but the second group of images don't open.

[ckurak]

Nils,

The second group is labeled "Attached Images" whereas the first is labeled "Attached Thumbnails." So, I am guessing that Images are already at their maximum size and Thumbnails can be opened to a larger size.

This is probably done by the forum software automatically.

Joe,

Nice work as always. Please keep sharing. And, we promise to either a) keep learning, and/or b) stay in awe.

Charles