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| OSCAR:
On the Centipede I'm restoring, I took a little liberty to replace the white fire button and off-white trackball with translucent blue ones for a bit of variety. I'm lighting them super bright LED's, one for each. From how my trackball looks with a single super bright LED, I would have to think that a LED cannon would be overkill for a trackball. Here are two pics of my cp; the first one is with the camera flash, the second one without a flash. And neither pic is really that representative of how bright they are to the eye, I had to reposition the trackball LED because it was too bright at first. |
| hulkster:
yeah, but the cannon things are really easy. those led's require wiring up. ive seen tutorials, but im still scared ;D so id be more apt to go with the cannon's, and if i have to, just put a piece of paper or something over the led (not touching) to dim the light. wont that work? |
| OSCAR:
--- Quote from: hulkster081 on April 16, 2004, 07:45:19 am --- those led's require wiring up. ive seen tutorials, but im still scared ;D --- End quote --- Are you planning on putting buttons or joysticks in your control panel? Those require two wires per switch, just like how a LED needs two wires. The only difference between a pushbutton and an LED is the resistor, which isn't any harder to connect to a wire than anything else. If you can let me know what your difficulty is with LED's, I'd be happy to help you out. |
| Sasquatch!:
--- Quote from: OSCAR on April 17, 2004, 01:39:15 am ---Are you planning on putting buttons or joysticks in your control panel? Those require two wires per switch, just like how a LED needs two wires. The only difference between a pushbutton and an LED is the resistor, which isn't any harder to connect to a wire than anything else. If you can let me know what your difficulty is with LED's, I'd be happy to help you out. --- End quote --- OSCAR was quite helpful to me when I started poking around with LEDs, so feel free to hit me up for anything too. ;) The main reason that I went with the LED cluster from glowire.com wasn't for ease of wiring, but ease of mounting. The cluster was already in a nice little holder, so all I needed was a piece of double-sided tape, and I was done. But the wiring itself is super-easy. |
| hulkster:
--- Quote from: OSCAR on April 17, 2004, 01:39:15 am --- --- Quote from: hulkster081 on April 16, 2004, 07:45:19 am --- those led's require wiring up. ive seen tutorials, but im still scared ;D --- End quote --- Are you planning on putting buttons or joysticks in your control panel? Those require two wires per switch, just like how a LED needs two wires. The only difference between a pushbutton and an LED is the resistor, which isn't any harder to connect to a wire than anything else. If you can let me know what your difficulty is with LED's, I'd be happy to help you out. --- End quote --- sweet, thanks oscar! well i guess what im having trouble with is the fact that i will have to mess with my power supply. i dont like the fact that if i screw up wiring something, then my power supply could mess up. anyway, ive seen that you can buy a molex connector from like radio shack or something, then take wires from that to connect the lights. well what wires do i use? i dont know about the voltage or anything...i just know about arcade buttons to ipacs ;D. anyway, so how do i wire up the red or black wires to what parts of the led?? also, what are the best leds to get? ive seen that video tutorial thing where the guy reviews different leds but im still kinda confused. if you could point me in the right directions here, id be greatful! |
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