I want to get some el wire for an application but what I want to do is cut it in to smaller pieces, say 6 ", instead of one continious wire. I have found an article that shows me how to reconnect the cut wire, my only question is will i need a seperate inverter for each wire or can i just connect them all in parallel to the inverter? Heres a quick paint pic of what i want to do. http://home.kc.rr.com/mymods/pic5.htm Thanks for the help!
macroman did a good EL wiring article here http://www.bit-tech.net/article/59/ If you are not adding any more wire to the overall lenght I would think it would work with the one inverter but I'm not exactly an electronics guru. I just wanted to post that link, welcome you to the forums and say "Oh lord, another one from Kansas and from Lenexa to boot!"
You might look into stringing them in series. I *think* with a thick enough guage of wire you won't do any damage. Parallel may be a bad idea. In series, they would draw less current, it should be the value the inverter is rated for. In parallel, they would draw more current. It would be like this, if each wire were the same length, one piece of wire would draw say X current. 2 in series would result in X/2 for the current, 3 would be X/3 and so on. In parallel it would be 2X for 2 wires, 3X for 3 and so on. I know it doesn't help the look of your project to lonk them in series though. What you can get away with is really based on the max output ratings of your inverter and the resistance per unit lenght of the wire.
