IL Translucents/leds from paradisearcadeshop.com

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Thanks to Bryan at paradisearcadeshop for letting me try out these new led pads for IL translucent buttons.
I have been looking around for these for awhile and Byran had great selection, great pricing and then the only way I've ever seen to illuminate these buttons.
I decided to change out the white leafs in my Asteroids Deluxe with the clear IL translucents and I installed my own x-arcade microswitches, as these are my fav switches for playing AD, in particular.
After soldering all the connections on the led pad to get a white light...it was BRIGHT, REALLY BRIGHT! So bright, that it was actually painfull to look at, especially since these buttons are perfectly clear. I tried to diffuse the light but nothing looked right.
So I mounted just one led at the bottom of the AD control panel and it gives a nice, warm glow, not super duper bright but this is the effect I really wanted.
I will be posting how the yellow IL's look in my Gravitar CP soon.
I will also show how I can illuminate the translucent leafs I've installed in my Stargate CP soon as well.
I am not the most experiened with soldering, I must say these things are tough, they took the extra abuse of my solder noobieness very well, they still work!
Thanks again, Bryan!
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Thank you for posting that video link. If you can listen through the arcade din (hehe), you will see exactly how these led pads "solder up". My soldering skills are very marginal right now, I don't want to put off the wrong impression with crappy looking solder joints. A real feature of these is how they can be connected to an rgb controller like an led-wiz and made to do all kinds of cool things.
If you do use these in the IL's, make sure to keep your solder points very clean and not bleed over the edge of the pad, there is basically no room for error when installing these, they are an exact perfect fit between the switch and the plunger assembly. You will also want to use very, very thin wire to stay away from the moving parts of the button.
These things are BRIGHT as heck, they will illuminate a solid, non-translucent button, no sweat. In fact, I would avoid anything clear, as they may hurt your eyes! I've also been informed that they only pull 20ma each, so you could run these of batteries or any old 5v ac adaptor hanging around the house. There are many applications for these outside of just arcade stuff...
 
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Looks cool, but with the film and color scheme of AD, I would've gone with a blue...
 
Hmmmmm, they are RGB LEDs :) With white buttons you can make them any color you want :)
Thanks for the post.

We went really bright because we thought they could easily be turned down, but it's always hard to turn them up. If you want to cut the power a little, you can easily ad a resistor inline on the supply side of things.

Enjoy Game on!
(The regular colors will need to be soldered, the RGB's arriving in 2 weeks will have 8" leads on them.)
 
I am a novice when it comes to these LED's. Can you hook these up straight to a PWR source or do you have to run them through a RGB controller?
 
They can be hooked up to a power supply, the resistors are built in.

With LED's you need to get the current flow and the voltage drop correct, these have a resistor built in so you don't have to worry about that.
 
They can be hooked up to a power supply, the resistors are built in.

With LED's you need to get the current flow and the voltage drop correct, these have a resistor built in so you don't have to worry about that.

So, if you had colored buttons you could just shove these in and wire them up to the PWR supply and BAM...lit colored buttons...cool.
 
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