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Marquee light, too....white?
Ken Layton:
Commercial arcade game light fixtures are standardized on "Cool White" fluorescents. Don't buy anything else like those 'warm white or daylight, etc as they just don't look right.
mred84:
My cabinet has a Philips TLD 15W color 33 (coolwhite) as a backlight.
It came with the cabinet.
Its best to use a TLD in stead of a lightbulb. A lightbulb shine's fine in the center but it goes dark aroung the edges. With an TLD the spread of light is even.
papaschtroumpf:
home improvement stores sell sheets of diffusing plastic (it textured, like frosted glass) used in suspended ceiling fuloescent fixtures (about 4x2 feet). They work wonders for that purpose.
Not sure about the price because mine came of a broekn one that I got for free.
Of course this became a moot point after I put a "black light" (UV light) fluorescent bulb behind the marquee. It looked 100% and didn't have a bright spot anymore (I removed the diffuser with the UV light).
REBIRTH:
A couple of thoughts:
1) From the picture (may not be true) it looks like the light is much smaller than the marquee - it looks like the middle of the marquee is too bright, and by the right/left sides it isn't lit enough (too dark)? If so, get a florescent light as long as the marquee so the whole thing will be an even brightness
2) As for the middle being too bright - most of the earlier replies are right on, get a light diffuser of some sort (either a real plastic light diffuser, or paper, etc.). My marquee is printed on backlit film, and when I lit it up from the back originally I had the same issue - it was washed out. I had extra backlit film attached to the printed marquee (from Kinkos) so I cut a second sheet out, same size as the marquee (blank part, just white backlit film) and placed that behind the marquee and now it looks perfect. This is the same idea as a diffuser or paper.
Good luck
RayB:
I don't know why, but both my generic cab and my Galaga cab have regular house lightbulb fixtures (for regular incandescent lightbulbs). Weird eh?
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