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light up translucent trackball
AlanS17:
--- Quote from: PCC on April 10, 2003, 11:09:46 am ---EPCO has some interesting specialty balls; although I can't imagine that they are inexpensive.
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Either my eyes are playing trivks on me or those balls aren't perfectly round.
AX:
looks round to me. but i am blind.
pezkore:
--- Quote from: Vesper on April 10, 2003, 10:37:12 am ---The way you're supposed to light these up is with a single 12V bulb. There is a light-assembly that screws into the bottom of the trackball that takes a bulb. You can then just run 12V from a PC molex connector. Looks fantastic and you don't have to mount an entire flourescent down there.
I don't think Happ has these assemblies on their site anymore though. Bob Roberts carries them though. They're cheap.
- Mike
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You say that you are "supposed" to light these with the 12 volt set up. Do high powered LEDs work as well/ better? Also, some of the control panels that i have seen that use a 12V florescent light to light a translucent ball and buttons produces and uneven lighting effect- the ball is bright and the buttons are about half as bright.
pezkore:
--- Quote from: ampapa2 on April 10, 2003, 07:30:52 am ---I used a Blue translucent ball and backlit it with a flourescent bulb with a 12 volt relay to switch my arcade on. If you're interestedhere is a link: http://ajmmame.webajm.com/
ampapa, :D
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I just thought you might like to know ampapa2- your control panel is what inspired me to use a light up trackball
Vesper:
--- Quote from: pezkore on April 10, 2003, 02:48:12 pm ---You say that you are "supposed" to light these with the 12 volt set up. Do high powered LEDs work as well/ better? Also, some of the control panels that i have seen that use a 12V florescent light to light a translucent ball and buttons produces and uneven lighting effect- the ball is bright and the buttons are about half as bright.
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Supposed to as in that's what real games that have light-up trackballs do. This is a small 12V incandescent bulb, NOT a flourescent. It's the same bulb (lamp #161) that normally goes behind coin slots to light up the reject buttons. Happ made/makes a light fixture that attaches directly to their trackball to hold this bulb. Bob Roberts sells them.
Since it's a single very bright source directly under the trackball, it is lit up very well. I've never tried LEDs, I just went with the "official" part because I thought it would work the best.