on 4/19/04 11:04 AM, Walt Wayman at hiwayman@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Well, yeah, like I said.
>
> But it's teensy and light and infinitely portable and convenient and
> battery-powered so it doesn't need to be tethered to an AC outlet and so
> forth.
>
> I've still got a few thousand slides to work my way through, so I'm busy. I'm
> alternating a couple of sets of Ni-MH cells to power the little bugger -- lots
> handier than the wall wart thing, you know. In fact, this morning I used the
> Camedia batteries. Is that a transgression? Am I in trouble now?
>
> Walt
They make them in bigger sizes as well... its really similar to a laptop
backlight without the LCD screen in front. In fact, when I was resurrecting
a laptop that had a busted screen recently, I was going to try to use the
broken LCD to make one of these... but I discovered the replacement LCD I
bought (e*ay, of course) had a backlight on its last legs. After about 1/2
hour it would black out on one half of the screen. So I disassembled the
busted one and swapped out the little tiny fluorescent tube that's in them.
Its about the size of a pencil lead in diameter, and sits boxed in against a
wedge shaped piece of plastic... a very long skinny wedge. The light 'leaks'
out along the face of the wedge, and with a frosted white sheet in front of
it you have a 'solid-state light box'. I've seen them advertised in bigger
sizes, up to 11x14 I think... for a lot of cash. I'm thinking I'll open a
blank MS Word document and just use the laptop as a light table...
--
Jim Brokaw
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