[Robotgroup] How to turn on 12V rope light using 9V or less

[brooksdesign]

How about using EL Wire ?You can run 20 feet of it on 2 9volt batteries and when on the strobe setting they run for many hours .
-brooks

-----Original Message-----
>From: Pui Yee Hung <puiyeehung at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 19, 2006 4:24 PM
>To: Austin Robotgroup Mailing List <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] How to turn on 12V rope light using 9V or less
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am with the Austin Outrigger canoe club.  We practice at night and
>need to light up the boat for safety purpose.  I was thinking about
>using rope light. However, rope light run at 12V and a 12V battery add
>too much load to the boat. Is there any circuit that I can use to
>reduce the running voltage down to 9 V or 6V. We don't need to have
>the light on all the time, Blinking rope light will work for us as
>well.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help!
>PY
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