Marquee light and speaker shield question...

[dema]

Do marquee lights get very hot? I don't have a lot of space because my speakers are a little large, and I'm going to put the speakers behind a piece of 1/8" thick marker board, which will make the space even more confined. The one side of the marker board is a very glossy white, so it should help make the area really shine to compensate for the lack of space, but I wanted to make sure it didn't get too hot to cause any fire concerns.

I'm sure this is a stupid question but I haven't picked up a marquee light or installed the separator yet, so I thought I'd ask.

[slayj]

Depends on the light.  Flourescent should be fine.......

[Q*Bert_OP]

Just put a mini computer fan up there.

Never use regular light bubs.

Pac man has regular light bulbs, and it gets very hot up there!1

[HoopstarsGarage]

I am in the process of building a Centipede Replica (Check it out here) and the area between the marquee and the speaker panel is quite tight  - tight enough that I had to do some engineering to get everything to fit.  I have had the 18 watt fluro in there running for about 12 hours in tests and the marquee glass would only be considered slightly warm to touch.  I don't think it is an issue to be honest..


Hoopstar

[dema]

Cool. Thanks for the information guys. I'm glad to hear that the tight real estate will work out without any heating concerns.

[Joystick Jerk]

You could always go to a PC mods website and buy a cold-cathode flourescant that plugs directly in your PC's power supply. They run cool, last a long time, generally are compact because they're meant to fit inside PC cases, and have the ease of a molex connector.