Best way to illuminate a Imperial/Betson Trackball?

[sirhcman]

I know this thing can be illuminated but it didnt come with a light or anything....What is the best way for me to light this trackball? Bulb, etc?

[AlanS17]

First of all, do you have a translucent ball?

[sirhcman]

Yea.

[GSXRMovistar]

I went with an extra bright LED, glued to the underside of my trackball unit and powered from the 5v+ out on my iPAC, works a charm.  

[SpAwN]

I know this thing can be illuminated but it didnt come with a light or anything....What is the best way for me to light this trackball? Bulb, etc?

I just did this last night. I used the Lazer Led's, I bought the small cluster of 4 leds and just taped it to the bottom of my trackball (the happ trackball I have has a hole on the bottom) http://www.glowire.com/Lazer%20LEDs.htm

There is a review of these lights at retroblast.com

http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/lazer.html

[rampy]

There's a hole at the bottom of the case that you point a light source towards... Tehre's a ridiculously expensive bracket you can  buy taht's just for that purpose... But you're better off fashioning your own bracket or hotglue gunning some superbright led's there as pointed out by the other posters...

good luck!

rampy

[Howard_Casto]

The "bracket" is a simple L-bracket you can get at any homedepot store for pennies.  Of course if you want to pay happs 30+ bucks to solder the bulb socket onto it then have fun.  I would go for 12 volt lights for one simple reason.  If you hook them up to an old powersupply, the lights ramp up as the powersupply warms up and slowly dim off as you switch it off. It's very cool.  As leds are resistors, they don't light unless there is enough voltage to run them, and thus you don't get this effect.