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The wall wart (unless it's a piece of garbage) should provide clean enough power. Can you link to the specific wall wart you purchased? Also a link to the EL wire you're using would help.
Are you plugging it into the service outlet in the game or the wall? If it's the service outlet I would try a wall outlet. Probably not the issue, but worth a try.
No idea how much you need without seeing the EL wire specs, but would guess 1 amp is not enough since I seriously doubt if voltage is the problem (unless it's a really crappy wall wart). In any case get a good power supply and make sure it will provide at least 3 amps.
Quoted from MArmour:I pair of AA's can't pump out that much amperage so I don't think that's the issue.
Actually they can. An Energizer Max, for example, is rated at 2.85 amp hours max (that's for a single battery).
Just to be clear running an EL wire off two AA batteries is a bad idea to begin with and it all goes downhill from there. Get a good power supply and the problem should go away.
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