awesome! it looks like you have yellow and cyan there… which tells me that if you powered directly from vcc, and press all buttons at the same time, it should consume 480ma of current… usb only provides 500ma and 40-100 of that is usually used by the 360/ps3 board itself… you might get a usb current draw warning message if you mash buttons lol… be careful or measure the current draw with a multimeter
sorry i can remove if you dont approve…
So anyways… its been way way too long since I’ve visited 
I have been busy with numerous projects and out of work due to an ankle injury…but im not really digging the new site/forum…but anyways a real big celebratory congratulations to PurpleArms and co for the amazing turnout of AE2. Well to be honest we all knew it would be really good and a game changer, but wow im seeing a lot of really banging customs and such featuring AE2. Everyone wants some! Also you really put some time in with not only the with design, but the videos, installation instructions, faq sections and customer service. You are really doing some great things, and im happy that its all working out great, you deserve it!
Ok and now my next post will be longer, but you might find it interesting…
Well as you may remember sometime back I was asking a lot of questions about it if was possible to a custom Arc-Eye configuration with 3 different color LEDs instead of the single RGB LED on each side…Well it is possible, and actually wasnt really that hard to do at all once I got the hang of things…Let me show you:
So the above pic, is the second one I actually completed… The first was to practice coming to grips with the whole SMD soldering thing. Once you get used it, its not that bad really and out of all the mistakes I did, not once did i screw up a pad or render one of the boards unusable. But one thing that is really important is to have a great soldering iron, because the I have wasnt getting hot enough and refusing to tin the tip, so it took a long to get the solder to go exactly where I wanted it too. I am not happy with some of the joints but, those will get better once I acquire a new iron. Everytime I soldered a joint I would check it with a multimeter with an audible continuity check to make sure it was good. I still dont have the right SMD resistors for the red LEDs, but they do work because I checked them with through-hole resistors. Its very important to check and make the sure no connections are bridged because these are tiny componets that are closely packed to together in a non-standard format.
Some uV action! I am using 3x 0805 SMD LEDs, in a R,G,uV configuration. My whole custom stick mod is focused around uV illumination. Naturally I wanted to use some Arc-Eyes, so I needed to think of something that would work. This idea came to my head and actually works as a proof of concept. Considering that AE2 has the same footprint for LED pads I should be able to do the same with a set of AE2s. Since the components are reorganized and lil bit tightly packed together, I need to be much more careful when soldering this configuration on the AE2s.
Green and uV LEDs in action. I am planning on using a Sparky PWM variant to run and power the leds. PWM is great because through coding you can fully customize the colors/mixing of each of the LED channels. This will be very useful to because substituting a blue LED for a uV one will cause different colors than expected. I hoping that through carefully mixing the 3 color channels I can achieve some nifty results that should in theory have a touch of uV to them…
Installed onto the microswitch.
Installed into a PS-14-KN.
Full assembled button, for testing purposes.
You can view the full set here.
Overall it was a great learning experience and I’d like to thank Purps, 32Teeth and the others for helping me out with answers, info and ideas 
I cant wait to scrounge up enough cash for the 12 AE2s I am going to need to for my mod, so can take it to the next level.
And no I am not done with my whole pretty rendering of arcade parts thing, I’ve got some really banging shit cooking in the oven and ill share some more on that soon Speaking of which Purps I am going to PM about some stuff…
awesome soldering, insane
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i came across these guys about a year ago.
those are the same footprint as the arceye plcc6 but UV + Purple
you can search ebay for http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=5050+plcc6+led&_sacat=0&_odkw=5050+rgb+led&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313
Very cool! Nice to see you back
damn i cant wait till the sparky jr v2 comes in stock. then i p[lace my order for your fine product
Thanx man, you were the one that said, yes it could be done and suggested which size LEDs I should use, so thank you again
Yes I’ve seen those a while ago too, but the are pure uV. Im more looking of a way to sneak the uV into the RGB setup. If they only made LEDs in a RGuV config I would have be set.
Great to be back…still have a lot of catching up to do but I am getting there slowly lol. Just a heads up the “Arc-Eye 2.0 PnP LEDs: http://goo.gl/pclEC” link is your sig is not functional.
Oops i’ll fix that… srk keeps changing the way their links work -_-
If your not making Arceye2 anymore, what will everyone do who is excited for the new clear Sanwas do? Arceye > KNserts.
Well, i might be convinced to work on an arceye2 for sanwa. There are challenges with sanwa buttons, namely the amount of height clearance available under the cap.
But I wont consider it until i’m out of ArcEye2.
Oh how i hate not being able to get stuff in Canada at times…
Does anyone lives or works near a ToysRUs that can buy this and ship it up to me (or can hand to me at evo)?
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11679789#soldInStore
I would be very grateful! I can pay back via paypal
Hey guys, so I had bought the ArcEye2 and SparkyPWM for my MVC TE Fightstick for 360. I went through and set everything up except for the last few steps…(the last step I did was step 6, I can post pictures of everything after I get out of work later if that helps with seeing whats going on) my stick is not dual system modded and has no other mods aside from new artwork and Seimitsu KN buttons. My problem is this, what do I do about power?? Is there any easy steps to finish off this mod or would be easier for me to get some sort of dual system mod and connect the Sparky through that, and if so then how do I go about connecting the two? I know a little more than the average person on small electronics but that’s about it so anything would be greatly appreciated!
hi… on a non dual modded TE, you have to solder one wire to power… you can tap into this from the little green pcb sticking out from the bottom of the turbo panel on your TE… the other end of the wire goes to the screw terminal on sparky… unfortunately there is no easy way around this
hahah oh man I’m an idiot, no this should be easy to finish the stick off then, thanks for the guidance! I’ll post pictures when I can <3
Hey everyone… i had a great time @ evo… and to celebrate, i will be extending the evo discount to any new orders!
What is the offer sir? i may need another big order LOL. i am almost out
also another arceye v2 stick incase you or 32 want to add it to you list of installed products in sticks. more in the future once i post them, alot of them are still in the works. but i used them up on stick instead of my project T_T
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$1 off each arc eye!
ohhhh transformers joystick! i like!!!
haha you got the turbo panel leds to light up… good job!
turbo panel is all te kitty. not me lol. o i will email you sir with my order…i liked ur prank youtube vid btw lmao