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mcseforsale:
Hey Randy,
Any way to make my EI2's more responsive? I just installed CLASSX white in my father in law's arcade and they are right. The EI2's seem a bit light...with the same switches (standard switches..).
Thanks!
AJ
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: RandyT on January 30, 2013, 05:13:32 pm ---
--- Quote from: Jumpman64 on January 23, 2013, 01:24:44 pm ---Randy -- any update on the OmniStick Basic? Thanks!
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They have been on order for a while, so we are hoping to see them soon. They come from the EU, so it can take a while. They aren't the most commonly ordered, and our cost to stock them is pretty high, so when someone comes along and takes what we have left, we end up short for while.
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I thought you made those. I guess you wouldn't want to say whom you get them from....
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on January 31, 2013, 01:18:22 am ---I thought you made those. I guess you wouldn't want to say whom you get them from....
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They are a Suzo stick. We tweak them a bit, and we are probably the only source for the colors at this point (and we're running low on those) as they stopped making anything but black. But we had a cache of spare shafts from when we used to sell a "retro" edition.
The OMNI-Stik PRODIGY is based on the same unit, but with a lot of custom parts we build around it.
yaksplat:
--- Quote from: RandyT on January 30, 2013, 05:13:32 pm ---The challenge with purple, for those who were waiting for them, is the lack of a high-output purple LED to illuminate them well. I will be recommending an RGB drive for this purpose, which, while not as bright as the NovaGem lights, looks great with them.
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Do you know what the brightness of the led's used in the other NovaGems? I don't have space on my led-wiz to populate 7 RGBs.
I see some 2200mcd purple LEDs at digikey, Newark and mouser, but without knowing the current brightness it's a crap shoot.
PN: SSL-LX5093VC
3.2V 20mA
requires a 91 ohm, 1/8 watt resistor on 5VDC
RandyT:
--- Quote from: yaksplat on January 31, 2013, 11:01:38 am ---Do you know what the brightness of the led's used in the other NovaGems? I don't have space on my led-wiz to populate 7 RGBs.
I see some 2200mcd purple LEDs at digikey, Newark and mouser, but without knowing the current brightness it's a crap shoot.
PN: SSL-LX5093VC
3.2V 20mA
requires a 91 ohm, 1/8 watt resistor on 5VDC
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These would work, but the NovaGems LED's put out about 5x what that LED does.
You wouldn't need to run all three colors, and there would be no need to control the R and B channels separately, so you would still only need 1 channel on the LED-Wiz per button. Worst case would be to add a small resistor on either the Red or Blue line to tune the shade of Purple you are looking for. But if you can spare two channels for each button, I noticed something very interesting about the purple buttons. They are fairly dark when unlit, but are a very nice shade of purple when lit with the proper LED colors. But the interesting part is that they pass other colors very well. In my testing with our currently top-secret High-Output RGB lighting modules, they do a great job with all but two colors; White and Green. Even Green light passes through the Purple button, but not as well. The biggest surprise was the quality of Orange with this button. This makes them a pretty good candidate for an RGB set up, where a dark appearance is desired when the buttons are unlit, but still is able to show a large part of the color spectrum when connected to an LED-Wiz.
The new RGB lighting module, when I get it released, will be comparable to the NovaGEM LED's when 2 or more colors are being mixed. I'm currently awaiting samples for the diffuser.
RandyT
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