This is a random home/fun project that I'm doing, and I had the idea of using EL wire up the transparent stem of the lamp to feed an LED bulb on the top. (I've never done anything with EL wire) But as EL wire requires conversion to ~2000 Hz and the source and load (LED bulb) are 60 Hz, it makes for some difficulty.

I can do
AC -> DC -> inverter -> but the drop down in voltage to 60hz AC I've no idea about. Of course, since the LED is actually DC, I could take that apart and use some sort of rectifier.

But if EL wire should even be handling a load is an unknown to me. I'm looking for some wisdom here, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

 

This is a random home/fun project that I'm doing, and I had the idea of using EL wire up the transparent stem of the lamp to feed an LED bulb on the top. (I've never done anything with EL wire) But as EL wire requires conversion to ~2000 Hz and the source and load (LED bulb) are 60 Hz, it makes for some difficulty.

I can do
AC -> DC -> inverter -> but the drop down in voltage to 60hz AC I've no idea about. Of course, since the LED is actually DC, I could take that apart and use some sort of rectifier.

But if EL wire should even be handling a load is an unknown to me. I'm looking for some wisdom here, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

There is a company that does EL driver chips, but the name eludes me right now.

If it springs to mind.....................

 

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