how do i power el wire with a arduino?

i need to be abole to power el wire with the arduino uno.or at lest turn it on/off. I have a cuple of el drivers.

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[sspence]

You can control a EL wire like any ac load, with a relay, or a SSR. You cannot "power" it with a Arduino (limited to 3-5vdc devices).

[iceng]

EL wire needs High VAC in the range of 200VAC at 2KHz

Here is some EL WIRE data I just measured on three EL drivers

Unit_1 Single AA_Cell Battery
No_Load      300VAC 600Vpp  90us period  11.1KHz
Small_Load 150VAC 300Vpp 450us period   2.2KHz Sine

Unit_2 Two AA_Cells in series Batt.
No_Load  250VAC 500Vpp  40us period  25.0KHz
Full_load  100VAC 200Vpp 800us period   1.3KHz Sine

Unit_3 a 9VDC Battery
No_Load   200VAC 400Vpp 450us period   2.2KHz Sine
Full_Load  150VAC 300Vpp 450us period   2.2KHz Sine

Included are several waveforms 100 V/cm  . . . . . . .  A

[orksecurity]

Uhm... Do you want to _power_ the electroluminescent wire with an Arduino, or just turn it on and off with an Arduino? What effect are you actually trying to acheve?

(Have you looked at the Instructables which describe how to work with electroluminescent wire, and how to use an Arduino to control things? Insert slot A very fine and around tabbing 2...)