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| Zakk:
I try to avoid radio shack...crazy prices. I've ordered about 10 of these online. For $2 you can't go wrong. I even have one mounted in my pc case in a window pointed at my keyboard so that as it gets dark I can still see what I'm typing on a black keyboard. They're just great since they're plug and play. http://www.cpusforless.com/1laledcaco.html However, you really should try some soldering. Hell if I can figure out how to weld in a couple of days, you should be able to figure out soldering in 10 mintues. I have faith in you. :) Once you do it, you'll wonder how you got along without knowing how! (Oscar said the same thing to me a couple of months ago about welding!) |
| hulkster:
k, so are you saying i should go for the LED cannon things? |
| Zakk:
Oh you are stuborn! Yeah, they will work, but remember they only come with a tiny little power cord, so on all the ones I put into cabs I had to cut the wire and solder in an extention, since the pc plugs are usually at the bottom of the cab, and the panel is a fair distance away. I think you can get hard drive power extensions though, but I've never seen one longer than 12 inches. Go get that soldering iron :) |
| OSCAR:
Sorry if I goofed you up. I though the LED cannons were those cluster things with a bunch of super brights all bundled together. THAT would be overkill for a trackball, but the single LED cannons that Zakk linked look pretty much like what I used, except mine didn't have the fancy housing or connector. For that price of $2 each, it seems pretty hard to beat since it has the housing & connector already. |
| KevSteele:
--- Quote from: OSCAR on April 20, 2004, 11:23:07 am ---Sorry if I goofed you up. I though the LED cannons were those cluster things with a bunch of super brights all bundled together. THAT would be overkill for a trackball --- End quote --- I don't know, Kelsey, I really like the 4-LED white cluster that I used on my SlikStik. The light level seems just right, at least to me: I got my cluster from Glowire.com: http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/lazer.html Pretty simple to install, as it has a molex connector on it. I just rigged up a "molex extension cable" and used the double-sided tape included with the cluster to stick it directly below the trackball. Kevin |
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