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JesterDEV:

I got a great deal on a 3" blue translucent trackball on ebay ($12+s/h). I've been using my golden tee trackball for quite sometime, and figured it was time for a change. :)

Anyway, I was thinking about using a standard(?) led that a computer uses. I have tons of old computers, and parts laying around so I figured I'd use what I have. But I'm wondering if it will be bright enough? I have some green, some red, and some orange. I don't think the color will make that much difference in the brightness but you never know. It's either that or I buy a USB light (sort of like those tubes to light a computer case). Any advice?

Sasquatch!:

A standard LED will not be nearly bright enough.  You'll want to either use the standard 14v incandescent bulb, or a superbright LED.

I bought a white "4 LED Cluster LED" from glowire.com to light my translucsent blue trackball, and it works GREAT.  So great in fact, that I had to move it off-center a little bit, because it was TOO bright!

walls83:

I think I bought a trackball from the same guy Jest.  How is it?  I would also Like to know about wiring a light for it.

jimmyjet:

How about tapping into the power supply for the coin door lights and using the same type of fixture?  That's what I was planning on doing.  It should be bright enough.
jimmyjet


Daniel270:

I've seen this done on the Zelda MAME in the examples page...
Why not an LED cannon?

http://www.cpusforless.com/1laledcaco.html

I'm going to try one of these out on mine and see how well it works!

Daniel

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