Glowing speaker wire

Has Anyone heard of glowing speaker wire or know a site that i can order it off of or anything??

I think you're referring to electroluminescent wire, or EL wire. Google EL wire and you'll get a bunch of sites you can order it from. I've also seen it stocked at Wal-Mart.

well i have seen computer wire with the el wire wrap around it, i mean it wouldnt be hard to buy just the el wire and then wrap it around w.e you want.

I'm not fully understanding what he's asking about though.

If you want glowing wire that you can wrap around whatever you want to and make it "glow", then yes, EL Wire is your best bet.

But if you're actually asking for speaker cabling to go from your amp/HU to your speakers, and to have them glow, then no, I don't think there's anything like that out there. Speaker wire uses AC current, while most of the glowing stuff that you'll find in your car runs off of DC current.

yeah thats what i thought with nothing out there.....i heard some guy talking about it so i didn't know if there was something out there i just thought i would check and see what you guys thought

You could coat your speaker wire with a UV coating then hit it with some UV lights to make it glow.

actually that could be a cool and rather easy thing to do/make. Only issue I see is that most people hide all the wires in their car.

There are RCA cables with glowing tips.. haven't seen any speaker wire like that though.

djtecthreat wrote:

There are RCA cables with glowing tips.. haven't seen any speaker wire like that though.

Link? Doesn't sound possible.....

well....it is for a box that has a plexi top so i was trying to find something to make the wires glow so it wouldn't really be just random wires in my car

corvettecrazy wrote:

actually that could be a cool and rather easy thing to do/make. Only issue I see is that most people hide all the wires in their car.

He might want it for a backwards sub install like some people do with the subs that have nice magnets and baskets or something.

clutch1 wrote:

corvettecrazy wrote: actually that could be a cool and rather easy thing to do/make. Only issue I see is that most people hide all the wires in their car. He might want it for a backwards sub install like some people do with the subs that have nice magnets and baskets or something.

true.

let your mind wander with fiber optics......

oooh that gave me an idear, a copper wire with a thin clear jacket, with a double layer of fiberoptics around them, and then the normal clear thickish jacket...

oldskoolhonda wrote:

oooh that gave me an idear, a copper wire with a thin clear jacket, with a double layer of fiberoptics around them, and then the normal clear thickish jacket...

exactly....

something like this

with a 360 degree side emitting fiber twisted in with it........

damn do you havea link to that? or prices or anything

^^ is standard Monster Cable wire...you get it next to the chinaman @ Wal-Mart (just kiddin, but you can get that pictured wire @ walmart). The idea with the fiberoptic wire has yet to be done, and for most companies, would not be worth it because 95% of the time wire is hidden, so its visible properties are not worth their cost.

oh i thought you were saying that had the fiber optics in it, which is why i asked for a link

KaosFaction wrote:

^^ is standard Monster Cable wire...you get it next to the chinaman @ Wal-Mart (just kiddin, but you can get that pictured wire @ walmart). The idea with the fiberoptic wire has yet to be done, and for most companies, would not be worth it because 95% of the time wire is hidden, so its visible properties are not worth their cost.

its actually KnuKonceptz Karma kable but same idea.

steven_mckenz wrote:

djtecthreat wrote: There are RCA cables with glowing tips.. haven't seen any speaker wire like that though. Link? Doesn't sound possible.....

http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/images/shop/large/qx/b_qxl-r155.jpg


How not?? You tuck LED's in the tips and run 12V through the RCA line (on separate conductors). Easy.

These aren't what i saw in person, but same idea.

steven_mckenz wrote:

Speaker wire uses AC current, while most of the glowing stuff that you'll find in your car runs off of DC current.

Actually most neon and EL products do use AC. If you look at the transformer for string of EL wire for your car it'll go from 12 volts DC to around 100 volts AC depending on the length. Same goes for Neons but the jump is much higher. A 9" neon is usually around 1500 volts AC.

They use AC to decrease the amperage. at 12 volts a 9" neon draws about 210 ma but by jumping it up to 1500 volts AC the it drops to about 15 ma.

However you may be correct in the sense that there isn't any actual glowing speaker wire. Just ends. At least nothing that I've seen.

Heres how to make "REAL" glowing wire.... take 24 gauge wire.....run about 1000 cathode sets off of it without a fuse...sit back and enjoy your short lived glowing power wire.

lol if possible that would be really cool lol

Silentdawn wrote:

Heres how to make "REAL" glowing wire.... take 24 gauge wire.....run about 1000 cathode sets off of it without a fuse...sit back and enjoy your short lived glowing power wire.

you dont even need the cathodes just attach one end of the wire to the pos terminal of the battery and the other end to the neg. oh and dont use a fuse. if you use a fuse it wont work.

Neon Mike wrote:

steven_mckenz wrote: Speaker wire uses AC current, while most of the glowing stuff that you'll find in your car runs off of DC current. Actually most neon and EL products do use AC. If you look at the transformer for string of EL wire for your car it'll go from 12 volts DC to around 100 volts AC depending on the length. Same goes for Neons but the jump is much higher. A 9" neon is usually around 1500 volts AC. They use AC to decrease the amperage. at 12 volts a 9" neon draws about 210 ma but by jumping it up to 1500 volts AC the it drops to about 15 ma. However you may be correct in the sense that there isn't any actual glowing speaker wire. Just ends. At least nothing that I've seen.

Hmm, for some reason I was thinking that neons ran off of DC. Maybe not. I'll have to check that out and figure it out for sure.