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shatteredzman:

--- Quote from: kupermanp on October 14, 2009, 03:27:26 am ---Yeah I thought I needed more controls.  I am only planning on lighting 14 buttons at the moment.  Does anybody have an opinion on the LED buttons from GGG vs ultimarc.  The ultimarc ones seem a little easier to install.



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I bought a lot of electric ice buttons from GGG and I gotta say that I really do like them. Here are pictures of my control panel.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=93077.msg996220#msg996220

The LEDs come on a little circuit board and are a little difficult to get in place but its not hard or complicated. They come pre-wired so you dont have to solder if you dont want to but I did to cut down on excess wires. The little boards are very similar to the RGB drives.

http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=83&products_id=240

I also bought little diffuser disks to scatter some of the light because the LEDs are super bright and hurt if you look directly in them without a diffuser. Here are the diffusers I am talking about.

http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=73&products_id=300

I dont know anything about the ultimarc buttons except what I read from reviews(do some searching). The reason I did not buy them is because they are flat and not concave so they do not have the real arcade feel.
kupermanp:
Those pics look awesome.  I definitely want a concave button so that takes out the ultimarcs.  GGG is out of the electric ice buttons are the novagems concave?  Its hard to tell from the pics.

BTW- how are you guys searching.  Every time I enter anything into the search engine I get no results even if I use words I know have threads.

shatteredzman:
The novagems are concave, they look and feel exactly like a standard arcade button.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=search
Works fine for me.
kupermanp:
I think I'll go with the novagems then.  I like to be able to push the button with a flick of the finger catching the edge and you can't do that with a flat button.

Just tried the search and its working for me too.  Woo hoo.
kupermanp:
Thanks to everyone here for the help so far.  I put in my order.  Magically the electric ICE buttons came back in stock right when I went to put the order in so I went with those because of the cool choose your own color thing.  

Right now I have

Konami Cab
P4
20" monitor
Ipac2
LEDWiz
2 8way
1 terry tornado dedicated 4 way
Happ 3" trackball
Spinner

My layout is 6 buttons for the two main sticks and two four the four way -- All Electric Ice
6 extra buttons - which are unlighted with plyer 1, player2, 2 black and 2 green buttons
I splurged on the pre daisy chained ground wire connector as well.


Still need to get a power strip and artwork

Am I forgetting anything?

Thanks
Paul
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