Wills and Kate use EL Wire in Kensington Palace

Posted in EL Wire - Written by Rhizzla on March 26, 2012

Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge have unveiled a sculpture at the heart of their new Kensington Palace Home that uses more than two miles of electroluminescent wire (EL Wire).

I had always heard that princess Kate had style, but now I’m beginning to believe it!

Wills and Kate must have some really powerful Driver to power all that EL Wire – my guess is they have 4 or 5 different Inverters powering i – and if it doesnt have an elaborate flashing sequence then the designer of this luminous lace sculpture has missed a trick

The largest EL Sculpture i have ever made was for the Glastonbury festival and by comparison was a measly 250metres of wire

If this has inspired you to make your own electroluminescent sculpture then heres a few tips:

1) Any EL Wire over 25metres or Drivers for more than 200metres would have to be ordered specially and may take a week or so to get in stock – contact me if this is your plan

2) The most powerful EL Driver I hold in stock will run 200 metres of EL Wire very brightly. With these powerful drivers, you can quite ofte control the brightness with a dial AND the flashing speed if you have it on Blink Mode

3) I always have 10m, 15m, 25metre and 100m lengths of wire in stock

4) I have powerful sequencers that can run a modest 25 metres of wire – that is 5 metres off each channel, but with the 3 different sequence modes, plus flash, and continuous ON these give an incredible effect

5) You can daisy chain as many splitters off each other as you need – i also have extenders that are 5metres long

If you are interested in a neon style light sculpture like this in your house or venue then please contact us and we can not only supply all the EL Wire and equipment you need but can give consultation on installing it too

3 Responses to “Wills and Kate use EL Wire in Kensington Palace”

jason welsby
12. Jun, 2012 at 12:25 pm

Hi there,
This is truly a magnificent sculpture. It is designed and built by Loop.PH. The controller behind it is a bespoke 256 channel sequencer which can drive 15m of EL wire per channel. Each channel is individually brightness controlled via DMX.,I designed these controllers for multi-channel EL sculptures such as SPIN by Nathaniel Rackowe (2006) and a few others from Rackowe and Loop.PH. If you would like more information about the controllers or would like to use one for anything please let me know. cheers the original Glowman (of Glastonbury fame)
- Rhizzla
  12. Jun, 2012 at 8:54 pm
  
  Hey respect to you – im not joking im seriously honored you visited the site cos seeing yous at glastonbury many years back honestly has inspired some of this stuff
  
  Loop.PH also did the original amazing Sonumbra sculptures
  
  its a fairly pricey technology dmx controllers and its not my speciality so i dont supply any at present – but id love to pick your brains about a simple and affordable system
  
  so cheers for getting in touch globro
  
  (and in case anyone misses it – if you click on Jasons name youll get to see his gallery of classic glow stickman action – original style!)

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