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aj6500:
I'd considered the CC route, but no-one I talked to could tell me how bright they were.  Most I've seen were made to illuminate the interior of cases, so I didn't know if they would be bright enough, or big enough to look ok on the exterior of a cab.  My juke is pretty good sized as I bypassed the PC speaker route and went straight to real speakers to shake the windows coupled with an old home stereo receiver for power.  

Anyway, tonight I went to walmart and found a set of 15" neon tubes w/a built in mic for $15 each.  They are 12v, intended for cars and should be low power draw so i'm going to run them off the PC like a CC.  The downside is the manufacturer says not to use "near" computers as they may intefere w/their operation.  What "near" is I don't know, so in again in the spirit of discovery I plan to find out.

Ain't electical thingies fun?  BOOM!

BobA:
I wish I had bought mine at Walmart.  Alot cheaper then a computer store.  The ones for cars are basically the same unit in more protective mounts.  Better mounting for less,  you have to give mass marketing credit for that.

Hope your experiment works out.  Mine is very visible in daylight but I don't know if it would be bright enough to shine thru a marquee if I were to cover it.   Only trying will tell.

BobA

aj6500:
They work fine so far, 0 problems.  I have one mounted on each side of my cab, the one closest to the pc is about 12" above it.  Intalled easy, cut the wires short(came w/like 50 feet of wire to the 12v plug) and hooked into the wires I have running my cab cooling fan.  I bought purple, but they are more of a pink/purple the than the color I wanted.  But no biggie there.  The only downside is I have to adjust sensitivity for 2 tubes instead of the single adjustment with the other setup.  I'll post a pic in a while.  My cab is in a middle phase right now.  I built and designed using 5 buttons for Arcade Jukebox.  But I switched to VMJ, so I have a USB keypad kind of stuck on the surface until my Ipac and new buttons from Happ get around to showing up.  I have a smaller keypad wired up for the Ipac that will be mounted into the CP.

BobA:
Sounds good.

By the way.  Sorry about hijacking this thread Lave Laar.

BobA

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