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Title: light up joysticsks
Post by: brihyn on February 28, 2017, 10:54:15 am

Building a pedestal for someone and he's requesting light up joysticks for the 4-player CP (doing the standard red/blue/Green/orange config)
what is the best option for getting these?
I checked out Paradise but do I need a orange ball/orange LED for the orange, blue/blue, green/green, etc? if so, looks like they didnt' have everything in stock last week when i was checking....

Title: Re: light up joysticsks
Post by: Titchgamer on February 28, 2017, 01:51:22 pm

Go for clear balls with coloured LEDs?

Title: Re: light up joysticsks
Post by: HaRuMaN on February 28, 2017, 02:09:29 pm

Or clear balls with RGB LED's

Title: Re: light up joysticsks
Post by: rackoon on February 28, 2017, 09:45:53 pm

got three jlf led ball tops from paradise and they are green on green. Look badass :applaud: I did think about clear with just the led being green but then it wouldnt look as when not lit :cheers:

Title: Re: light up joysticsks
Post by: n3wt0n on March 01, 2017, 08:10:53 am

Rackoon makes a really good point - if you want the balls to match their button colours while the arcade is off then coloured balls would be best. Also, if you aren't changing colours all the time then going RGB just complicates the process.

I have a pair of Paradise RGB Joysticks and really like how well they light up but they have a white ball that match very well with my GGG Electric Ice buttons so everything still looks good when powered down.

Title: Re: light up joysticsks
Post by: brihyn on March 02, 2017, 12:15:21 pm

Thanks, everyone, this answered my question. I don't need RGB on any of it, but the idea of using clear buttons and joys could be kind of cool...i'm going to throw this option at him.