{"id":1501,"date":"2004-08-18T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/18\/making-maat-in-el-wire\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T10:06:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T18:06:36","slug":"making-maat-in-el-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/making-maat-in-el-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Ma&#8217;at in EL wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s done! Take a look<\/p>\n<p>H<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20040819maat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/images\/20040819maat_small.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"114\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>ow: I got window weatherproofing plastic (it&#8217;s lightweight and crystal clear. Thanks for the hint, oh my genius sister!) and 3M packing tape. As I&#8217;d go along, I&#8217;d shape the EL wire and then tape it to the plastic.<\/p>\n<p>I ran into some weirdness when I tried to run some of the EL wires in parallel. Depending on how I did the positive and negatives, sometimes they&#8217;d light in parallel, sometimes not. Sometimes the brightness would be affected, sometimes not. I think the power supply didn&#8217;t like having 3 in parallel. I found one configuration that worked by putting some in series&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s done! Take a look How: I got window weatherproofing plastic (it&#8217;s lightweight and crystal clear. Thanks for the hint, oh my genius sister!) and 3M packing tape. As I&#8217;d go along, I&#8217;d shape the EL wire and then tape it to the plastic. I ran into some weirdness when I tried to run some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}