>I discovered that a camera flash inverter will power
>some length of EL-wire if you intercept it at the
>HVAC part. While drawing more than an Amp from the
>1.5V cell.  That's NOT efficient enough :-)

Yeah, these converters are optimised to charge up a capacitor in a short
time :)

You could probably get good results driving the transformer push-pull from a
suitable source, without it needing to worry about the drive current.
Probably need a frequency high enough to keep the transformer from going
into saturation though, which will probably be several kHz.

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