EL Wire – Connecting a 9-Volt Battery Cap to a Cool Neon EL Wire Driver
To Connect a 9-Volt Battery Cap onto a Driver:
- Start by slipping a 1-inch piece of 3/16ths heat-shrink tubing over both the black and the red wires coming out of the 9-volt battery cap.
- Next, slip a half-inch piece of 3/32nd heat-shrink tubing over each of the two wires, one for the red wire and one for the black.
- Next, slip a half-inch piece of 3/32nd heat-shrink tubing over each of the two wires, one for the red wire and one for the black.
- Tin the metal end of each of the wires coming out of the 9-volt battery cap.
- (By “tin” we mean, apply the wire to the soldering iron, and apply the solder until the solder liquefies and lightly coats the wire.)
- (By “tin” we mean, apply the wire to the soldering iron, and apply the solder until the solder liquefies and lightly coats the wire.)
- Your driver will have a pair of wires coming out of it, one black, and one red. These are the wires you’ll be dealing with.
- As above, tin the metal end of each wire with some solder.
- As above, tin the metal end of each wire with some solder.
- Solder the red wire from the 9-volt battery cap onto the red wire coming out of your driver.
- Solder the black wire from the 9-volt battery cap onto the black wire you’ve tinned on the driver.
- Solder the black wire from the 9-volt battery cap onto the black wire you’ve tinned on the driver.
- Now, push both the half-inch pieces of heat-shrink tubing over the solder joints, (the tubing should completely obscure the solder joints) and heat up the heat-shrink tubing using a heat gun or other heat source, being sure not to melt anything other than the heat-shrink tubing.
- Pull the one-inch piece of heat-shrink tubing that’s on both the red and black wires over both solder connections. Apply heat, as in 5 above, melting the heat-shrink tubing. Ta da!