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Electric Ice 2 vs. ClassicRGB vs. Hoku IL RGB Pushbuttons

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Nephasth:

Sometimes vendors sell very similar products. Like pushbuttons. Last year, markronz did an excellent side by side by side review of the similar convex LED pushbuttons that GGG, Ultimarc, and Paradise sell. Now, those three vendors all sell "frosted" translucent concave pushbuttons. It would be great to get another side by side by side review of all three of these products. Is anyone willing to pick up one (or more) of each and share your thoughts about them with all of us?




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Mysterioii:

This is one of those things where I suspect they're all pretty much functionally identical, it just boils down to just exactly how much light they pass and MAYBE if there's the slightest bit of tint to any of them.  My guess is whichever you pick would be fine.  I probably would pick one and stick with it for the whole cab rather than mixing them up, just in case there were minor differences.



RandyT:


--- Quote from: Mysterioii on July 20, 2012, 12:02:11 pm ---This is one of those things where I suspect they're all pretty much functionally identical, it just boils down to just exactly how much light they pass and MAYBE if there's the slightest bit of tint to any of them.  My guess is whichever you pick would be fine.  I probably would pick one and stick with it for the whole cab rather than mixing them up, just in case there were minor differences.

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Other than the possible lighting performance you mentioned, there are some others.  Their importance will, of course, be based on the expectations of the builder.

Shape and style
Lighting methodology
Installation
Built-in switch compatibility

AFAIK, the other two are IL's "knock off" of our original Electric ICE design offered with each of the other vendor's approaches to lighting them, as they are from IL's standard pushbutton molds, and do not have in-built features for lighting units.

An interesting piece of trivia is that I approached IL to produce these for us many years ago when attempting to make this type of button available to the community.  They would have nothing to do with it, regardless of how adamantly I tried.  So we worked with a US-based injection molding company active in producing arcade parts during the classic arcade era, and had our EI1 version made from existing molds, modifying each part for the lighting.  We are still working with that same US company to do the manufacturing of our EI2 buttons, with everything to our design, and from our own molds. 

RandyT

jace055:

I just picked up one of groovygamegear's and a few of the different options that paradise arcade sells for this exact reason.  I'm waiting for a button from ultimarc to finish out the collection before I review all of them.  I need to send divemaster a PM to see if he carries them.

I had planed on doing this myself because of the significant investment required to convert all 34 buttons on my control panel.  I'm about to spend almost $300 on just buttons and I want the best. 



Nephasth:


--- Quote from: jace055 on July 20, 2012, 09:23:25 pm ---I just picked up one of groovygamegear's and a few of the different options that paradise arcade sells for this exact reason.  I'm waiting for a button from ultimarc to finish out the collection before I review all of them.  I need to send divemaster a PM to see if he carries them.

I had planed on doing this myself because of the significant investment required to convert all 34 buttons on my control panel.  I'm about to spend almost $300 on just buttons and I want the best. 

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Great! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about them all! :cheers:

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