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Re: Illegal?

[quote=dtengineering;630971]Excellent suggestion on the LED light bars. Our secret plan this year... if we had time... was to do a Canadian Flag in IR Leds.

No one would see it until it showed up in photos and on the big screen.
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We still get people oohing and ahhing over it. Moe from 88, after seeing it for the first time, put it best:
Me: "So when it lights up, we know we can get the tube..."
Moe: "And everyone knows you have a tube!"
Me: "Yeah. We didn't think of that until later."

We really scoured the aftermarket car decoration market for possibilities. Our runner up was electroluminescent wire, or EL wire, bunched within a clear lexan tube four bar linkage. However, the weight of the claw forced the tubes to bend to a point where the linkage couldn't reliably hold a position. Thus, the LEDs won out in the end.
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