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Is EL Lighting legal ?

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08-10-2014, 22:45

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Re: Is EL Lighting legal ?

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Originally Posted by cbale2000

In the past I've seen a number of teams, including one we work fairly closely with, use EL wire without any issues at inspection.

Well, now that's interesting.

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Not sure if it's the same type of thing you're looking at, but this stuff, as far as I know, only requires a 12v input.

Input voltage doesn't matter if the input voltage gets stepped up to 100+V. 100+V is not legal*, even in a non-functional decoration.

*2014 rules.

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