> I fried it by providing too much voltage in too short pulses.  (thus
> explaining the separate inverter and EL H-bridge in conventional EL
> panel inverters, I guess.  It looks like it'd be quite tough to get the
> sort of waveform it likes at the same time as getting the right output
> voltage.)

I think that EL requires net no DC (I may be wrong) for long life. Can run
on DC but not for long.

> I guess I also need to decide to what extent I want/need to regulate
> the voltage.  Sigh...

Zener diodes will almost certainly be fine.

        RM

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