Anyone here know...

Jay Honeck wrote:
...what voltage an airliner "No smoking -- Return to Seat" sign runs
on?

I bought one on Ebay, thinking it would be cute to have in our theater
-- but I have NO idea what voltage to apply. (Just for the heckuva
it, I connected it to a 9 volt battery, thinking it MIGHT glow a
little. No dice.)

Thanks!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

24 VDC.
AC will probably work too. Light bulbs do not care. A Heating and AC
transformer puts out 24 VAC.

Michelle P A&P

Michelle P wrote:
Jay Honeck wrote:

...what voltage an airliner "No smoking -- Return to Seat" sign runs
on?

I bought one on Ebay, thinking it would be cute to have in our theater
-- but I have NO idea what voltage to apply. (Just for the heckuva
it, I connected it to a 9 volt battery, thinking it MIGHT glow a
little. No dice.)

Thanks!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

24 VDC.
AC will probably work too. Light bulbs do not care. A Heating and AC
transformer puts out 24 VAC.

Michelle P A&P
luminescent strip? that changes my answer. going to need to look that
one up.
Michelle

It is undoubtably an electroluminescent panel, the kind of which I covered
in two years' ago Oshkosh forum (remember, Jay?). Make you a deal. Send it
to me and I'll put in some carefully current limited AC & DC voltages and
tell you what to do to make it work. Whichever way we go, Jameco
Electronics (www.jameco.com) has a line of wall-warts that will undoubtably
make it work.

On the other hand, the reason you found it on the surplus market may have
been that it failed and was tossed out. No combination of dicking around is
going to get a busted unit to work.

CAVEAT -- we are backed up to the walls with customer orders and
calibrations right now. It may be "a while" (TM) before we get to it.

Jim





"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ups.com...
You're probably better off trying to gut the light and insert a 120volt
night-light.

Sadly, it's more modern than that. It's some sort of a solid-state
thing, with what looks like maybe a luminescent strip behind the
words/sybols? There would be no room for any kind of a bulb.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

24 VDC.
AC will probably work too. Light bulbs do not care. A Heating and AC
transformer puts out 24 VAC.
Michelle P A&P

luminescent strip? that changes my answer. going to need to look that
one up.

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