NEW PRODUCT – EL Wire 6V Sound Activated Pocket Inverter

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NEW PRODUCT – EL Wire 6V Sound Activated Pocket Inverter. A small, portable inverter for EL wire with an audio input! This inverter has a little microphone and will light the connected EL according to the surrounding audio volume. Makes for an easy reactive project.

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This inverter requires 6V input (it works great with our 4xAA battery holder) and it can drive 2-3 meters (7 to 10 feet) of our high-brightness EL wire OR 1 meter (3 feet) of EL tape OR a 10cmx10cm piece of EL panel continuously for about 21 hours (off of 4xAA’s).

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There is a switch for selecting steady/sound/off modes – steady is ‘always on’. Comes with a single 2.5mm pitch female JST connectors, standard for all the EL wire and tape we carry. There’s also two power wires, you’ll need to connect these to a 6VDC power source.

You can plug any of our EL wire/tape into this inverter directly. To connect a ‘raw’ piece EL wire to this, you’ll want a male connector wire

The EL inverter requires a ‘load’ to stabilize itself. Do not run the inverter without at least 2 ft of EL wire attached! Otherwise the inverter can spike and damage itself

Like all inverters we’ve used, the 2000 Hz oscillation is slightly audible. To reduce the squeaking, we suggest opening up the case padding it with thick foam tape/weatherstripping. Squirting some hot glue around the capacitors may also help. We managed to get it silent this way.

Check out our EL TRON bag tutorial for ideas!

Soldering to raw EL wire is a little tricky but luckily we wrote a detailed step-by-step tutorial! The tutorial also covers a lot of information about EL and how it works.

In stock and shipping now. VIDEO COMING SOON !


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1 Comment

  1. This looks like it would help with a project I’ve had in my head. I want to add EL wiring to my MAME cabinet that syncs with the audio. I’m guessing I could get some of these and replace the microphones with cables to surround sound outputs. Then if I can apply different equalizer settings to each output I might be able to get different wires to response to different frequency ranges.

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