I bought some purples to put on my GB Premium from Paul, what seems like an eon ago as I wait for that machine..
Recently though, I bought another set for a Star Wars that I'm doing and wanted to share on the thread. I really like this mod!!
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An overexposed shot as well, to show the leg light ups better:
I found the kit to be well made and I appreciated that He included pads to install between the clear protector and my cabinet.
In my case, i ran cabling through existing holes that were already in my cabinet. (I don't know why these holes were there but at around 1/8"-1/4" they were plenty big enough to push through these wires.
I was I a bit for a hurry to get the machine up for our Halloween party, I plan to go back and grommet these holes, at minimum. I was also thinking that for making it easier to take the legs on / off for moving the pin (tournaments, etc) - that I might install 1/4" or so circular two-prong receptacles like you sometimes see on 12volt transformers (wall-worts) on the DC side.. That would allow for a cleaner plug-in solution beneath the cab and would lend to more permanent wire management as well. I've got that on my TODO list but I have a few other things to do to this pin before I get to that. (R2 is missing a leg, board work on the original power supply)
I used hotglue for holding the wires into place beneath the cab. It looks ugly from under the can but I like that hot glue is easily removable. You can work it out like caulking and get a smoother finish that what I did here but again- I was in a hurry this first pass. I'll go back and OCD it up later
I have an abundance of speaker wire and tend to use it when making custom molex, extensions.
To feed power, i tied into the tertiary power tap that comes off of my colordmd harness. DKPinball makes (and Mezel sells) a similar- if not identical- power tap for data east and other games.
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I mount a power splitter in the back box and run everything that is to be always-on to this splitter.
If you don't want always-on power, I recommend tapping into the backbox GI circuit. I installed a molex here, as well, though I'm not sure that I'd recommend running the full splitter rig off of the backbox interactive GI. A couple extra accessories won't hurt anything though.
Anyway, just wanted to share my experience with the leg light ups. They are quite cool. Can't wait to add them to GB next...