Electrical device

A process of making an apparatus, the process including:

• assembling a lighting element by combining at least two interconnects, two supports, and a housing, each said interconnect including a set of two or more terminals for wiring connections, each said terminal located on a solder pad, each said solder pad soldered to an electrical connection of a strip of light-emitting diodes and located on one of said supports, each said support configured so that there is an interconnect-proximate plane, adjacent the solder pads of one of said sets of terminals, and an interconnect-distal plane that is larger than the interconnect-proximate plane, so that different lengths of the interconnect-proximate plane and the interconnect-distal plane proscribe a sloping, tapering, or curving region of the support and indicate a direction inward to ends of the housing, and wherein the housing contains the interconnects with their supports within the ends of the housing, wherein the strip of light-emitting diodes is positioned in contact with the housing and the interconnect-proximate planes and the regions, between the solder pads and between walls of the housing, and is operably connected intermediate the sets of the terminals and substantially intermediate the directions, so as to receive power for the strip of diodes from one said set of the terminals and communicates the power to another said set of the terminals.

A process of using an apparatus, the process including:

• installing, adjacent a residential electrical outlet, a lighting element that includes two interconnects, two supports, and a housing, each said interconnect including a set of two or more terminals for wiring connections, and each said terminal located on a solder pad, each said solder pad soldered to an electrical connection of a strip of light-emitting diodes and located on one of said supports, each said support configured so that there is an interconnect-proximate plane, adjacent the solder pads of one of said sets of terminals, and an interconnect-distal plane that is larger than the interconnect-proximate plane, so that different lengths of the interconnect-proximate plane and the interconnect-distal plane proscribe a sloping, tapering, or curving region of the support and indicate a direction inward to ends of the housing, wherein
• the housing contains the interconnects with their supports within the ends of the housing, the housing includes a hole exterior to each of the supports, located to surface anchor the housing, wherein the strip of light-emitting diodes is in contact with the interconnect-proximate planes and the regions, the strip of light emitting diodes is located between the solder pads and intermediate walls of the housing, and is operably connected intermediate the sets of the terminals and substantially intermediate the directions, so as to receive power for the strip of diodes from one said set of the terminals and communicate the power to another said set of the terminals;
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• locating a power supply, structured to change household electricity sufficient to drive the strip of light-emitting diodes, intermediate the residential electrical outlet and the lighting element so as to provide power to strip of light-emitting diodes.

An apparatus comprising:

• a display comprising consumer-selectable lighting elements made of lengths differing by a scaling factor of 1 inch or 10 mm, the lighting elements including:
• a first lighting element that includes two interconnects, two supports, and a housing, each said interconnect including a set of two or more terminals for wiring connections, and said terminal located on a solder pad soldered to an electrical connection of a strip of light-emitting diodes, each said solder pad located on one of said supports, each said support configured so that there is an interconnect-proximate plane and an interconnect-distal plane that is larger than the interconnect-proximate plane, so that different lengths of the interconnect-proximate plane and the interconnect-distal plane proscribe a sloping, tapering, or curved region of the support and indicate a direction inward to ends of the housing, the supports mounted on a housing that contains the interconnects and the supports within the ends of the housing, the housing including a hole located to surface anchor the housing;
• wherein an end of the strip of light-emitting diodes is in contact with one of the interconnect-proximate planes and another end of the strip of light-emitting diodes is in contact with another of the interconnect-proximate planes, the strip of light emitting diodes being located between the solder pads and intermediate walls of the housing, in contact with the housing and the region and operably connected intermediate the sets of the terminals and positioned to receive power for the strip of diodes from one said set of the terminals and communicate the power to another said set of the terminals;
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• a second lighting element that includes two second interconnects, two supports, and a housing, each said second interconnect including a set of two or more second terminals for wiring connections, and each said second terminal located on a second solder pad, each said solder pad soldered to an electrical second connection of a second strip of light-emitting diodes and located on one of said second supports, each said second support configured so that there is a second interconnect-proximate plane, adjacent the second solder pads of one of said sets of terminals, and a second interconnect-distal plane that is larger than the second interconnect-proximate plane, so that different second lengths of the second interconnect-proximate plane and the second interconnect-distal plane proscribe a sloping, tapering, or curving second region and indicate a second direction inward to second ends of the housing, wherein the second housing contains the second interconnects with their second supports within the second ends of the second housing, the second housing including a second hole exterior to each of the second supports, adjacent each said second end, and located to surface anchor the second housing by the second ends, such that the second strip of light-emitting diodes, located in contact with the second region and the interconnect-proximate plane, receives power for the second strip of diodes from one said second set of the second terminals and communicates the power to another said second set of the second terminals;
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• wherein the display also comprises a power supply suitable for driving at least one of the strips of light-emitting diodes.