Never seem them before, I hope you post a few pics when you're done.

They look pretty cool and thoguht about picking one up. Never seen one in person though.

Mike
www.Habosarcade.com

I have some coming for my TRON. I was wondering the same thing

I have them on my TZ and STTNG. They look pretty damn awesome. I had posted pictures of it on another forum so I'll see if I can find them and post them here.

I've since installed the other card, but this will give you an idea of how it looks. In that picture, I had it hooked straight to the 12v from the board next to the coindoor so it's pretty bright. However, when I installed the other card, it dropped the brightness down on both cards so it's not overpowering.

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That is pretty cool looking.

They look great. I have them in my SM and BDK.

Link to buy them?!

I found this vid the other day.
Looks like a cool mod to use w/ the PIG.

I have a couple for my Spider-Man, but haven't installed them yet. I had one of my friends make a long wire that will run from the 12v of the front right harness down through the bottom of the cabinet to the back. Then I plan on running it back up the playfield to under the apron. I plan on mounting the inverter under the apron. I also bought an el connection splitter so I will be running both cards with 1 inverter. I tried each card with it's own inverter and then using the splitter with just 1 inverter and I didn't see a difference in brightness at all.

I think the real tricky part (which should be easy) is going to get the actual wire that come out of the lit panel into the corner card slot in the apron. I don't understand why they didn't design these lit panels for the connection to be right on the corner instead of over to the left where you have to bend the wire to get it to tuck in there.

How do these work? You have to buy the 12 euro light and the 4 euro transparent card to get a whole card?

Thanks!

Is it best to go white or try and color match?

Wow these are cool.... Green for CV or go white with the cards (green cards)??

Could these be used for like say System 11 games, or older pins? Or is this for the newer 1992 to present? Thanks! Also all of you who say you have them in you pins, should post up pic's if you can!

It would only depend on the card holder size and if you can find 12v or not. Worst case scenario as far as the power goes, you could always buy a wall plug to 12v converter off of ebay for cheap.

As far as using them on System 11 games...I'm sure they would work since they do have some cards for some System 11 games. I've also heard people mention that you can print your own cards on some kind of transparent paper.

Doh!

Never realized they worked like this........

They actually look really great unlit. I did wonder when I bought them why they did not seem to shine or anything........

A couple things. First, I went crazy and ordered about 20 sets of these. They do look good there is a slight high pitched whine from them. Sort of like your ears are ringing. After installing a few machines I noticed the whine was pretty loud. Can't hear it once games start. But definitely can when they aren't.

A few days ago the room smelled like burning wire. Couldn't track it down. I have a decent amount of pins. Had my wife come in and together we agreed it stank but couldn't find the problem. Finally I noticed my tron topper was not lit and the Dmd said something about wrong game region, call stern. The 12v fuses both had blown. I lifted the PF and the inverter that runs the cards had burnt up. Really bad, it was a hunk of plastic. I since them unhooked the cards on most my machines due to them being a fire hazard.

I ran in to that same problem of burning a card up. You've got to really watch how you set these cards in. Some cards I get are insulated well while others have no backing at all. If that wire touches the apron, it can cause some serious issues until it blows that fuse.

As for colors, I stick to white as those seem to give the best resolution to the cards.

And when lifting the pf, yeah, you do need to disconnect. But since I use a splitter, it's just a matter of unclipping from the two splitter heads so only a short wire dangles from each card when the pf is raised.

I misread that last post. I have melted one inverter from them but I was under the impression it was because I was running EL wire along with the cards. It could have just been faulty though. I also do hear that high pitch too, but it definitely drowns out when the glass is on and the game is playing.

Well I was planning on getting some but not liking this info at all.

I planned on running 25 sets of these. The squeal would have been pretty bad just walking in the room.

Also. Test the 12v connector. If it actually tests closer to 13.7v do not use that source.

I think this is going to be enough info to turn me away from these. Thanks for all the details everyone.

Where did they get all their instruction and pricing card graphics? I recognize more than a few from Pinball Rebel, including some I did and uploaded to Ken's site.

i have them in LOTR few months ago.

on 12 volts you can hear a vibration coming for the card, like a buzzing sound.
also doesn't fit perfectly in the corner but still it's a cool idea.

i'm trying to come up with another way of doing this, i like it, i think it's cool but even with the score card on top of it you still can see the illuminated card.

pinball center does have a lot of cool stuff, i'm surprised nobody sells them here!

I think they just download and print them from pinball rebel. They're not really making profit on the prints at the prices they're selling them. You can also print your own using backlit film paper.
http://www.amazon.com/Inkpress-IBF851150-Specialty-Backlight-8-5in/dp/B0021VDMQK/ref=sr_1_3

If you go this route, you can just print your own and use the EL paper cards without buying their prints. I did this for xmen and AC/DC before I unhooked the cards.

Careful of their target decals. I got a set for my STTNG and was sent a sticker sheet. So for decals I still stay with PDI as their product and care is much better.

Here is my Tron with the illuminated cards. I have one transformer for each side and mine are not too noisy. I ran the wires down the main wire harness so there is no need to unplug anything when lifting the playfield. I hope with the plastic apron I should not have to worry about anything shorting out. I do like the way they look especially in my dimly lit gameroom.

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Looks great. Is that a blue EL card?

While you're there pick up some No Flix Plus LEDs!

They are the bees knees

They are the white ones.

Those cards seem really fitting for Tron. Looks awesome!

Congrats on finally receiving your package, they're hit and miss with shipping speed. As for the LED cards, just be careful not to let any part of exposed wiring touch that apron!