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'''Lighting''' of an arcade cabinet is fairly limited.  Lighting will be needed for the marquee area of your cabinet and is generally provided by either a fluorescent strip light, or several incandescent bulbs.   
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'''Lighting''' will be needed for the marquee area of your cabinet and is generally provided by either a fluorescent strip light, or several incandescent bulbs.   
  
The other area that generally will be lit are the coin returns if your cabinet features them.
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Coin returns may also be lit if your cabinet features them.
  
One fairly new lighting modification is to light the pushbuttons on the control panel. Knievel has also created a nice writeup on how to effectively light translucent [[Pushbuttons#Leafswitch Pushbuttons|leafswitch pushbuttons]] which can be found [http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,30565.msg257830.html here].  Work is also currently being done in this area with the [[LED-Wiz]]
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Recently builders have begun to experiment more with lighting the control panel pushbuttons. Knievel has created a nice writeup on how to effectively light translucent [[Pushbuttons#Leafswitch Pushbuttons|leafswitch pushbuttons]] which can be found [http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,30565.msg257830.html here].  Work is also currently being done in this area with the [[LED-Wiz]]
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 03:41, 11 April 2008

Lighting will be needed for the marquee area of your cabinet and is generally provided by either a fluorescent strip light, or several incandescent bulbs.

Coin returns may also be lit if your cabinet features them.

Recently builders have begun to experiment more with lighting the control panel pushbuttons. Knievel has created a nice writeup on how to effectively light translucent leafswitch pushbuttons which can be found here. Work is also currently being done in this area with the LED-Wiz

See Also