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Re: trouble lighting orange
Posted By: gavin In Response To: Re: trouble lighting orange (sparky2)
Date: Sunday, 8 October 2006, at 6:41 p.m.
> Years ago all we used for fabricated letters was 4500k white. now the norm here in Australia is 6500K and all you see is pinstriping through the acrylic, looks terrible and would have been considered an absolute calamity 20 years ago.Double stroke should have seen you Ok with those letters. ditch the designer white and go for a less intense white, or fill the letters with neon orange and go for the rich orange look.
My 2c worththe tubes are as far back as i can get them
> about 60 mm from back of face to front of
> tubing unfortunatly the letter makers put a
> 30mm stiffening piece in . is there any way
> of determining if the acrylic is of the
> wrong grade/ will a opal diffuser panel or a
> frosted vinyl laminate alliveate this. if
> the acrylic is wrong will reducing the
> number of tubes help with dispersion, i.e
> less light to compete with each other = more
> diffusion but less colour brilliance. this
> would be acceptable as we are looking for
> uniformaty not brightness.
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