EL Wire Quickstart Guide

Let It Glow

It comes in the glow of the project, but the wire beats. LED fun and all, but what is the cable all the hip kids are used to. If you just want to light up your bike for an evening cruise or a complete costume for Burning Man you're made up of light, whether the cable is a great solution. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to connect to it, how to control it, and without having to worry about how it's the ability of the wire to be tested. With the right part, the cable can be very easy to implement in any project.

Necessity

SparkFun El Wire starter kit if you purchased, you should have everything you need to follow along. El wire spool you just purchased, the following is a list of suggestions to help you get started. With the use of this part of the cable at all times, and those who are highly intelligent, but to use the cable for those looking for a quick and easy solution may be easier for people of any electronics experience. Before we go into more detail, let's take a look at what parts we should have:

• EL Wire 3m long strip of blue (or any color / shape will do)
• El Inverter Battery Pack
• 2 AA batteries

That may not seem like a lot, but that's all you need to start the project.

How it works

EL wire (electroluminescent wire for short), is particularly helpful for many reasons. First of all, it is you sew it into clothing, moving parts attached to it, and bend it into any shape you wish to allow flexible. Second, it's a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes come. You can wire form (the most typical shape), to form tapes, or can the panel. (For the sake of this tutorial, I will refer to all of these as El wire.) These can be cut to any shape or size to achieve the desired effect. In truth, be sure to reseal the cut. Latest El wire is great because it is cool to touch, even after hours of being is. Hence why it is often found in apparel applications. Do not heat the product, because the heating element rather than achieving an optical phenomenon, LA glowing material, which is composed of a mixture of semiconducting to send an electric current through it. Material flow of photons with electrons, which create light that we see as a result.

El Wire Quick Start Guide

Many asked, "I just can not hook up a battery cable came in?" The answer is no, that is! Order of the cable to work properly, you must use AC (alternating current) power. The outlets offer a lot more than the current requirements for the cable comes out of the power outlets in your home is very similar to that. That is where the inverter. Battery pack included in the Starter Kit is not just a battery holder. It is an inverter as well as the house. The inverter DC (direct current) power produced by the battery and turns it into AC. When you turn it on, then the inverter battery pack and listen very closely, you hum a little, if you stand under close to power lines or transformer box similar to what you hear, hear. (Note: SparkFun hanging out in the area of ​​high voltage almost does not condone). It is to be mentioned that, although coming from the AC Power Inverter is not enough to hurt or killed is important, it is a great shock to you, so be careful when handling the product that is enough to be driven. As I mentioned above, the wire can be cut to any length or shape, but you must reseal cut edges. I use hot glue or epoxy to seal the recommendations of the barbed wire. If you do not reseal, then you could end up getting a good flick.

How to use it

Use wire starter kit came about as simple as it gets. Only inverter battery pack JST connectors on one of the two women from male JST connector plug in the wire. Make sure there is a solid connection between the two is confirmed. Take off the cover by sliding in the direction indicated in the battery pack. Keep your battery inverter battery pack, and the back cover. If you click the button, and you should illuminate the wire. Press it again to a slow blinking effect, and for a quick blink, press it once more. The inverter pack you two came at a time of your choice of products to connect. You can mix and match colors as well as shapes. Are you blue wire, with a pink wire green tape, wire or the yellow and purple, with a red panel might have. The possibilities are endless!

El Wire Quick Start Guide

If you need a little more explanation, you can check out our demonstration videos. It is, in short, is to describe two different inverters that carry SparkFun, and you can see how each color looks when it is exposed.

It's as simple as that. However, if you are looking for more of a challenge, do not be afraid. The project was very complex, can be very quick. You may have noticed that some of the impact on the inverter is limited, and fitted both products of the same behavior when you plug it in. For example, you want to blink when a color is hard to let other. You can purchase other inverter battery pack, or a lot of you out there that the board is specially designed to work with the product can get one. SparkFun two boards, such as, El Sequencer and carries todo el Escudo. Both of these boards are designed to handle a lot of product EL planted them at once, and there you can create different effects. If you're looking for something a little more, check out this wrap-up section.

Wrap It Up

EL wire EL wire, and now you have everything you need to know to get started with the starter kit should know. If you have any questions or comments, please drop them in the box below. For more information on the product, how to control them, and the idea of the project, please check out the following link:

• Straight jacket heartbeat
• El Escudo DOS came with the display set-up
• L project on Instructables

Thanks for checking out our tutorial!