I purchased this lovely little EL panel to add a backlight to my RC aircraft transmitter’s display. I worked like a charm, minus having to deal with interference generated across the 72mhz spectrum. Not too much of an issue though, as I just shielded as much of the area as I could. That seemed to silence most of the noise.

The only thing I dislike about it is that it only has one set of inputs, so the cuttings are pretty much wasted.

After constructing a high voltage oscillator of the appropriate frequency I cut the device to shape. It was necessary to make a 90deg angle bend in the connector to conform to the surface of the part I had to fit it to. A slight short rapidly caused the entire conductive surface near the connector to arc and vaporize. I was never able to establish a reasonable way to reattach the electrodes to the device so I wound up not using either of them.

Surprised the connector didn’t fit any of my el wire inverter connectors but thankfully I had extras lying around so a few slices later… bob’s your uncle!

It was my first el panel experiment. It will take some very expensive practice to get precise shapes, so it will be cheaper to mask it instead. White panel looks good..

I’ve had no problem with the actual use of these panels– they’re bright, cut easily, and work perfectly in my projects. But the strain relief tore out in the first one I ordered, while placed on the curve of a prop. I’ve mounted the second one differently to keep it flatter, but am still concerned anything less than completely flat will make it fail eventually