LED Buttons: Am I doing this right?

[Kayden]

I want to make sure I have all this right before I buy it all.

What I want to do is get 2 sticks with 6 buttons each and then have the 2 coin buttons and 2 player start buttons.

I'm looking at getting two Ultimarc UltraStik360s.
For the 6 (12) buttons I was thinking of getting the electric ice buttons with the RGB drive LEDs.  I'll use normal buttons I already have for start and I'm going to wire coin to the coin door.

With this set up, I'd want to connect the 8 buttons for each player to their respective sticks and then connect the LEDs to a 32 port LED-Wiz, correct?  Unfortunately, with the RGB drive, each button LED needs 3 wires and 12x3 is 36.  Is it possible to connect the LEDs for each players' buttons to the same post?  IE Post 1 has Player 1 Button 1 Red and Player 2 Button 1 Red, Post 2 has Player 1 Button 2 Green and Player 2 Button 2 Green, etc...  That way both sets of buttons will be configured identically.

Then, it is my understanding that with the LEDBlinky software, the buttons can be configured to only light up if they're used in game.  So say game 1 uses 2 buttons, can I set the controls so that buttons 1 is solid blue, button 2 is solid green, buttons 4 and 5 are turbo for 1 and 2 and blink blue and green, and buttons 3 and 6 are off?  Then for game 2 that uses 4 buttons have 1, 2, 4 and 5 be red and 3 and 6 be off? 

Button Setup
_1_2_3
_4_5_6

Can buttons be set to change color when pressed?

Lastly, am I missing any buttons?  This is my first MAME setup.  How will I change/quit games?  I remember reading about shifting for admin buttons, but I can't remember where.  Will this setup support something like holding Player 1 Start and pressing button 1 to quit the current game?

[Kayden]

Did I confuse everyone?

[BobA]

Yes.   It was a bit too much to digest in one post.

[Kayden]

I do that...

I don't know if I can really streamline it any.  I'm trying to explain what I think'll happen and asking if it's right.

[enskpo]

Yes, you can hook up many LED's to the same post, as long as you have enough power for them all to run.  Those hooked up to the same post will all blink and change colors in unison.

>>Is it possible to connect the LEDs for each players' buttons to the same post?

[unclet]

If you hook to many LEDs in unison then would it be possible the wire you used to connect them all might melt due to the amount of power all of them will draw through the wire at one time?   

I am not electronically inclined at all but I would hate for you to go to all that trouble just to see all your LEDs fail within the first 10 minutes to an hour possibly.

I would suggest indicating what type of LED you want to use and exactly how many of them you want to string together in series (or parallel perhaps).  State the LED light specifications and then there would be a better chance of someone here exactly telling you how many you can string together.

[Kayden]

Oh it's most definitely possible.  I've done in once or twice before.   

However, in this instance, I'm only going to be hooking up two lights per post.  Each post is rated for 15 LEDs, so there should be no danger with even the skimpiest of wires.