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

[Don Colbath]

Step one: Find EL wire and power supply in messy shop.
Step two: Bring with me to paddling Tuesday night.

Don

brooksdesign wrote:

>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
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>>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
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>>Hi all,
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>>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.
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>>Thanks in advance for your help!
>>PY
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