atari lighted buttons rebuilt /service/

[delta88]

so yeah.. i dug up a handfull of atari lighted buttons like those from an atari centipede and such and non of them worked..well the led's did not light up.. so i took out the rivits and put in a new high intensity led.... looks good.. if anyone wants this done to atari buttons that they may have lying around gimme a holler.. I an going to put the ones that i have up on ebay.. they fetch a few bux as i have seen in past...

[MameFan]

1) Did you test them with enough voltage? I know the original ones took a lot more voltage than the current crop of LEDs out there. I connected 2 to a keyboard controller for a Mame machine and they barely flickered when the lights were flashing, and actually made the controller erratic in flashing because I think they were pulling too many miliamps.  

2) When you list to ebay, will you PLEASE be honest and state they have been "replaced with newer, <whatever specs> LEDs"?   The arcade people wanting them for machines will likely need the old ones that could run off the amps/volts provided in a machine, and the Mame people will be better off with the newer ones with less amps/volt requirements.

Thanks  (Good idea though if they were totally burnt out.. can't even find the shells of them anywhere let alone lighted).

[JLR2000]

Delta -

Do you have any pics of your conversions?  I have two of these laying around....I've been waiting for the right project to use them on.  Not sure if mine work or not, but I'm interested in the LED replacement idea.  Was it hard to do?  Do you need any resistors inline, or do you just hook it right up to 5/12volt line?