Well, i got two of these in the post today to help me with my EL-wire light driver project. They are available from Sparkfun here. I gave in and purchased these because my own triac-driving circuit was just not working, and after getting numerous shocks, destroying one strand of EL-wire and burning out 3 triacs I decided to see how others did it... I have yet to rebuild my own triac circuit and figure out just why it didn't work, but i think i might have been commoning grounds when i shouldn't have. Anyway, i made a video of the barbers pole in action!
The EL Escudo is aimed at the Arduino platform, but is essentialy an expensive bunch of triacs on a board, unfortunately the connectors are incompatible with any EL-wire or inverters that i have used so far, but there are pads next to each connector that you can connect up with your own fly leads as i have had to do. Annoyingly for external triggering, the board bereaks the triggers into 2x 10 pin header connectors, there are only 8 channels but they put the first 6 triggers on one connector and the last two on the other, and inexplicably they don't even match the spacing between these connectors so you can use one contigious connector. I had to use some spare proto holes andp ut in my own 8pin header and wire each trigger to each pin in turn. They could have done this a lot better.
Now alli need to do is to re-write the PICaxe 40x1 code to fit on a 28x1 and see if i can fit it onto the proto holes onthis escudo, i don't have the time at the moment to build my own circuit and get it fabbed, to get it to work i'll just have to improvise with these pcbs...
Checkout the youtube video!
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