Hey guys,here are some pictures of some small CCFL lights I built from some old scanner-guts.
They use 12V,and about 0.25-0.3A,each.
I also removed the mirrors from the optical assembly in the scanner,and used them behind,and beside the CCFL tubes,to direct/reflect the light a bit more,it seems to have helped! Some superglue,and a couple pieces of old fiberglass PC-board material,and we have a pair of lights! I added a few LED's to one,to try to 'warm up' the light spectrum a bit,but they don't make enough light to compete with the CCFL tubes.
The light from the CCFL's is pretty white/blue.
In one picture the (dimmed)incandescent overhead light is on also.
http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa154/Nothing40/SolarStuff/
