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Zakk:
I try to avoid radio shack...crazy prices.

I've ordered about 10 of these online.  For $2 you can't go wrong.  I even have one mounted in my pc case in a window pointed at my keyboard so that as it gets dark I can still see what I'm typing on a black keyboard.  They're just great since they're plug and play.
http://www.cpusforless.com/1laledcaco.html

However, you really should try some soldering.  Hell if I can figure out how to weld in a couple of days, you should be able to figure out soldering in 10 mintues.  I have faith in you.  :)  Once you do it, you'll wonder how you got along without knowing how! (Oscar said the same thing to me a couple of months ago about welding!)

hulkster:
k, so are you saying i should go for the LED cannon things?

Zakk:
Oh you are stuborn!  Yeah, they will work, but remember they only come with a tiny little power cord, so on all the ones I put into cabs I had to cut the wire and solder in an extention, since the pc plugs are usually at the bottom of the cab, and the panel is a fair distance away.  I think you can get hard drive power extensions though, but I've never seen one longer than 12 inches.

Go get that soldering iron :)

OSCAR:
Sorry if I goofed you up.  I though the LED cannons were those cluster things with a bunch of super brights all bundled together.  THAT would be overkill for a trackball, but the single LED cannons that Zakk linked look pretty much like what I used, except mine didn't have the fancy housing or connector.  For that price of $2 each, it seems pretty hard to beat since it has the housing & connector already.

KevSteele:

--- Quote from: OSCAR on April 20, 2004, 11:23:07 am ---Sorry if I goofed you up.  I though the LED cannons were those cluster things with a bunch of super brights all bundled together.  THAT would be overkill for a trackball
--- End quote ---

I don't know, Kelsey, I really like the 4-LED white cluster that I used on my SlikStik. The light level seems just right, at least to me:



I got my cluster from Glowire.com:

http://www.retroblast.com/reviews/lazer.html

Pretty simple to install, as it has a molex connector on it. I just rigged up a "molex extension cable" and used the double-sided tape included with the cluster to stick it directly below the trackball.

Kevin

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