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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: daillest319 on February 06, 2012, 02:18:06 pm

Title: Lighting Paradise Arcade LED Lighted Arcade Pushbuttons
Post by: daillest319 on February 06, 2012, 02:18:06 pm

Anyone have any idea how i would light these. i am a noob in this area i purchased 16 buttons. I placed two links below of the buttons and a power supply i purchased but i have no idea what wires i would need and how i would connect them to light the buttons.

Also for the buttons details i purchased the 75 gram cherry microswitch and voltage for all the buttons is 5v.


http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/230-red-led-convex-arcade-pushbutton.html (http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/230-red-led-convex-arcade-pushbutton.html)
http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/electrical/4-arcade-switching-power-supply.html (http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/electrical/4-arcade-switching-power-supply.html)

Title: Re: Lighting Paradise Arcade LED Lighted Arcade Pushbuttons
Post by: matsadona on February 15, 2012, 05:27:15 am

Regardless if it is an actual arcade or MAME cabinet there should be a 12V power supply present. You don’t need an additional PSU just to light the buttons.
Just connect +12V and GND to the correct connectors at the button LED’s and you’ll be fine 

Title: Re: Lighting Paradise Arcade LED Lighted Arcade Pushbuttons
Post by: BobA on February 18, 2012, 09:03:09 am

Danger Will Robinson!

He purchased 5V buttons so connect to 5V and ground NOT 12V.

Title: Re: Lighting Paradise Arcade LED Lighted Arcade Pushbuttons
Post by: matsadona on February 20, 2012, 05:06:58 am

Quote from: BobA on February 18, 2012, 09:03:09 am

Danger Will Robinson!

He purchased 5V buttons so connect to 5V and ground NOT 12V.

I'm pretty sure the webpage linked to above stated that the LED's are 12V, but I can't verify that right now since the server seems to be down.
But if it is 5V LED's connecting them to 12V would be a bad idea for sure. So my bad missing that comment.

Title: Re: Lighting Paradise Arcade LED Lighted Arcade Pushbuttons
Post by: matsadona on February 21, 2012, 05:02:43 am

Quoted from the webpage:
These convex buttons come complete with same color 12V LED's and arcade standard 50 gram microswitches, ready to go out of the box!

So that is what I referred to.
The thing I didn't see, was the dropdown box were you are able to choose a 5V variant.

Anyway, the general answer persists. There should be a power source already (regardless if it is a MAME PC or JAMMA cabinet) with 5V DC. So you shouldn't need a separate PSU just to lit up the LED's.

Title: Re: Lighting Paradise Arcade LED Lighted Arcade Pushbuttons
Post by: Nephasth on February 21, 2012, 05:21:08 am

Quote from: matsadona on February 21, 2012, 05:02:43 am

Quoted from the webpage:

These convex buttons come complete with same color 12V LED's and arcade standard 50 gram microswitches, ready to go out of the box!

Also on that page is "Product Options" where you can select either 5V or 12V...

Title: Re: Lighting Paradise Arcade LED Lighted Arcade Pushbuttons
Post by: matsadona on February 21, 2012, 05:23:52 am

Quote from: Nephasth on February 21, 2012, 05:21:08 am

Quote from: matsadona on February 21, 2012, 05:02:43 am

Quoted from the webpage:

These convex buttons come complete with same color 12V LED's and arcade standard 50 gram microswitches, ready to go out of the box!

Also on that page is "Product Options" where you can select either 5V or 12V...

Just realized that and updated my post... sorry.