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Re: Wiring your LED tube indicator (the illegal way)

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Originally Posted by MagiChau View Post
You could wave up giant colored stick(s) in the air, everyone will see that.
Once there are tubes on the top row of pegs, signs become a lot more difficult to see.

We're using three different LED patterns to indicated tubes to our Human Player. They're each wired to their own spike and use both the M+ and M- terminals. We were fortunate enough to have the weight and space for three spikes so this was the easiest solution for us - but if we did it again, we would probably use two spikes and have the LEDs ground to the PD.
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