I just noticed this topic posted on this thread (about a year after the fact), but I figured I would post now.

I was looking through the thread mainly because I have never seen anyone post any pics of a Speaker Light Kit on a DE: Star Wars. Pretty strange since I have seen them posted for Tommy, WWFRR, TFTC, JP and LAH. These games all have the same speaker panel type.

The question posed in the year old post was about how the light kits would look behind the Death Star painted grills. The answer is...they will look just like a Speaker Light Kit mounted behind a plain speaker grill. The light being behind the painted grills makes it so you can't see the painted design on them for the most part. The way you should mount a light kit for it to look good (in my opinion) with painted grills is to mount the light frame IN FRONT of the painted grills. This looks very good in most cases. I have attached a couple of pics to show this on a Last Action Hero. You will notice with the picture of the light frames behind the grills...you can't see the ticket design at all. When the light kit is placed in front of the grills it lights the painted design up nicely. Some speaker light kits made by others can not be mounted in this way...so you are stuck with mounting the lights behind the painted grills and losing their painted designs.

The post was also discussing using the Speaker Light Kits with upgraded speakers that have extended tweeters. This is not a problem with my Speaker Light Kits. They will work fine with the Flipper Fidelity or Pinball Pro speakers that have the spacer rings attached to the front of them (and the hardware needed in this case is included with my Speaker Light Kits). Again...this is not the case with the other guy's speaker light kits. My Speaker Light Kits will also work with other upgraded speakers and spacers as long as they are 5/8" thick. If they vary much thicker or thinner than that you will have to get different hardware with the length depending on how thick the speaker spacer you use is.

My light kits also keep the lights away from the edge of the speaker holes so they are not blinding or in direct view. It doesn't look like a light ring showing back in the speaker hole. It is a lit up area behind the panel. The light strips come out of the corner of the light frame so there are no dead spot gaps where the lights run into the lighted area on one of the sides.

A bit late, but I hope this answers the questions,

Doug (SpeakerLightKits.com)

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I don't sell them for Bally / Williams games...others do. Bally / Williams games have one small speaker hole and one large speaker hole. That's a visual issue that I have yet to see overcome without major speaker panel modifications or making a new speaker panel.

I'm with you there. The green light behind Yoda always looks off. I'm not sure if it is the color of the green or the brightness of it. I've also thought it might be because some of the green always bleeds off around him.

The purple Death Star and dark blue Vader look really nice.