NEW PRODUCTS – EL Starter Packs

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We now have EL wire starter packs in all these colors!

Blue! http://www.adafruit.com/products/583
Aqua! http://www.adafruit.com/products/545
Green! http://www.adafruit.com/products/584
Orange! http://www.adafruit.com/products/586
Pink! http://www.adafruit.com/products/588
Red! http://www.adafruit.com/products/587
White! http://www.adafruit.com/products/546
Yellow! http://www.adafruit.com/products/585

All come with 2.5 meters (8.2 ft) of our high brightness, long life EL wire, a handy 2xAA pocket inverter and a pack of extras like heat shrink, copper tape and foam padding – stuff you’ll want to use if you decide to mod the EL wire.


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3 Comments

  1. Why does the White EL Wire look blue in every picture I’ve seen on the Adafruit site? Maybe something to do with your camera (I know how hard this can be)? The reason I ask is that I’m thinking these EL Wires may be useful illuminating objects in macro-photography. Thanks, Drone

  2. They’re not a pure white, the coating is pink to try to neutralize the real aqua color. So it has a blue tint, check the datasheet for wavelengths.

  3. @Drone: I would recommend against using EL lighting for photo work except as a special effect accent light. Their output spectrum is just not suited to rendering a subject well in a (realistic-looking) photograph, and you will be agonizing over (unresolvable) color-balance issues.

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