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Hello -

I just bought an original Ms. Pac-Man cabinet for my wife's birthday and it's great. However, we're limiting the time that it's powered on to protect the monitor, so when we're not playing it, it's just turned off, which makes it look kind of sad.

Is there any reason why I can't remove, the attraction/marquee panel, take out the fluorescent tube bulb, and run a wire into there from the outlet to power a super low-energy LED bulb that I can keep on all the time? It won't generate any heat so it shouldn't be that big an issue and it'll make it look a lot more friendly and inviting to play.

Has anyone else converted their marquee to something that's always on? Does everyone else leave the game on all the time and I'm being overly conservative? I don't know anything about maintaining this thing so I want to try to make it last as long as possible before I have to learn.

Thanks,

Adam