El Wire 2 color soldering

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El Wire 2 color soldering

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Hello new to the forum and very impressed with the products Adafruit has to offer. I'm working on a project and think EL Wire would work best for me but I want to know is it possible to solder two different EL Wire colors together and have them run off the same inverter? I plan it being about a 60 cm run and would buy 2 starter kits in the yellow and blue. Would the inverter included in those kits be able to light 60cm if its even possible to join the 2 colors together? Will that same inverter be able to light a length longer than 60cm? These will be going on pair of children's shoes so space in limited and the inverter size included in the kits is probably the max size for the small space I have to work with. Ultimately I would like one inverter per shoe running about 60cm of 2 colored EL Wire. If additional length is possible maybe another 25cm I would like to know if that would also be able to run off of just 1 inverter from the kit. Thanks in advance.

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Re: El Wire 2 color soldering

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This inverter will drive 3-4 meters of wire. It also has connectors for up to four separate strand of wire, so maybe you don't have to solder two wires together:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/564

If you do need to solder EL wire, we have a tutorial here:
https://learn.adafruit.com/el-wire/soldering-to-el-wire

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