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- Care of El Wire/ Destroying EL Wire
The common way that EL Wire gets destroyed is continuous bending. On costumes, this is typically not such a problem since the wire is bending over a long radius. It becomes trouble when EL Wire is wrapped tightly around a flexible object, such as a fiberglass bike flag pole. The continuous motion coupled with the tight windings breaks down the phosphor core in the wire. Other ways to destroy EL Wire include very sharp bends, chafing on sharp corners of other objects, and stretching. EL Wire is tough, but it cannot withstand everything
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- What is electroluminescent wire?
Electroluminescent wire is a light source based on electroluminescent technology. It is the only linear light source in the world available in the form of a wire, many colors, small diameters, and continuous lengths--varying from inches to thousands of feet.
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- Why electroluminescent wire over neon?
In contrast to neon, electroluminescent wire is: flexible, energy-saving, less expensive, easy to install, cool to the touch, available in many colors, available in continuous lengths (ranges several inches to thousands of feet, mm - Km). Powered by batteries, EL wire is suitable for ornaments and jewelry, can be cut, spliced, braided or looped. EL wire is both water resistant and weather durable.
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- What are the available colors of electroluminescent wire?
We have 11 colors, Lime Green, Blue, White, Pink, Red, 2White, Blue-Green, Yellow, Orange, Green, Purple
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- How bright is electroluminescent wire?
Electroluminescent wires are bright enough for outlining and decorative purposes. From dusk onwards they are quite obvious, getting more noticeable with nightfall. Increasing input voltage and/or frequency will increase the brightness of the wire. Tips on additional ways to increase the general brightness of electroluminescent wire: doubling or tripling the wire results in greater brightness. Applying reflective or white paint under the electroluminescent wire(in a sign, for instance, achieves an increase in glow).
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- What can electroluminescent wire be used for?
Consumer Products: toys, picture frames, clocks, and gift items. Fashion: jewelry, jeans, evening wear, sports clothes, and footwear. Entertainment: special effects for stage, movies and TV productions. Safety/Transportation: safety lighting for buses, cars and bikes. Traffic: airstrips, helicopter landings, and stick lights for directing traffic. Security/Safety Clothing: lifejackets, road workers, police, etc. Signage: restaurants, museums, points of sale, and highway signs Emergency: evacuation from public buildings Other: there are endless other exciting applications that are unique to your situation!
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- Can electroluminescent wire be installed without training?
You don't need any professional background in order to install electroluminescent wire into the application you choose. All you need is an ordinary electric outlet and some tools. For portable applications, ELwireonline.com offers a variety of inverters (also called drivers). An inverter is a small electric device operated by DC voltage. The inverter's function is to convert the DC voltage to continuous AC voltage, necessary for the operating of electroluminescent wire. The intensity of the light varies when the voltage, frequency or both are changed. In order to allow the user many different possibilities, ELwireonline.com developed 4 kinds of inverters; low power/low frequency, low power/high frequency, high power/low frequency, high power/high frequency. The wire can be cut to the size you need. Any combination of the 10 existing electroluminescent wire colors may be soldered together. Wires of different colors may be attached to each other either in series or in parallel to each other. EL wire may also be attached to an ordinary electric wire.
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- How many different thicknesses does EL wire come in?:
Standard thickness - 2.2mm, - for common use. Thick sheath - 3.2mm -for medium duty. Ultra-thick sheathing - 5mm heavy duty wire ultra-thin sheathing - 1.3mm
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- What if i live in Canada?
If you live in Canada,please call customer service at 1-866-542-4569 to pay for your order in CAD.
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