Best way to illuminate rear of head ?

[Just Love Pinball]

Hi,
I have 12 machines in my home games room and i'm thinking of adding some lighting on the rear of the head of the machines to reflect off the walls behind.
I'm guessing that the best way to do it is with LED strip but I'm wondering if I should get the 12v type and run from a test point within the machine.
I've seen some machines lit from below, however I've had to store some random stuff under the machines so don't want to go that route, just the rear.

The walls are painted, I was thinking of using daylight or warm white LED strip / s just to give a background glow behind my collection.

I thought I'd ask the question here, to see if anyone has achieved good results, and how they did it.
I would also need 12 x sets of lights so appreciate any advice where to source to keep the price sensible.
I'm new to the forum, in so much as I don't normally post so hope I've done this in the correct way and place!
Geoff

 

[Fantazia2]

If you dont move the machines about much I would probably say it would be better to run them all off the same separate power supply instead of tapping into the games supply.

And string LEDs as you thought with a colour changing remote control, you can usually cut them at set points and then run wires between the cuts to extended them so just the LED strings on the back box, usually just get them off ebay, have a measure around a back box for where you would want the lights and add together for all machines and see if you can get a kit of that length, then you just need the wires to extended each section, and a soldering iron.

 

[kev a]

I used something similar to these for under cab lighting....

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Cable tied the usb wire to the back leg and ran to one of those phone chargers with multiple outputs, I'm sure two strips would be enough per backbox for a gentle glow.

 

[Fantazia2]

I was thinking something like this.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/35416449...UBKJCu6aD0wMQCxDvA/YBCRa0V|tkp:Bk9SR6Cbxd3IYg

20m Kit give 2 x 10m strips if you only do 3 sides of the back box then should cover roughly 6 machines per kit.

 

[SteadyP]

 

[kev a]

I was thinking something like this.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354164497704?hash=item5275d95d28:g:IT4AAOSwqZhizwpT&amdata=enc:AQAIAAAA4HvKG2XBKiCPkICTcyC3dyOqPYHe+fQTFNZn+ew8kE31yMpEF7qNiTN2zEp81jZFOvz/rKtK3s610KwgpM4dpwyPW4aImeYi1yk3BXIfrHVOvzYWxQeKA2DHGThvo5j05iDeOmOrcqKUZu9YQjPD1D5KZXvC+hZvSt/KKD+6nL/brbx9ahX/saTwBJkR+hxJ6fNOLD7bOOw+CdoovuNnyDMob8HEGwZjFS8vk2ZXM711cs26/9KKyAHScrwtg65NuOiXHetTXEQ8DZMQNgUBKJCu6aD0wMQCxDvA/YBCRa0V|tkp:Bk9SR6Cbxd3IYg

20m Kit give 2 x 10m strips if you only do 3 sides of the back box then should cover roughly 6 machines per kit.

Yeah I think that would work well, I went with the TV kit as it included the connector cables, so no soldering as they just plugged in, but then again that was for 3 machines, for 12 it would be a fair bit more.

 

[Just Love Pinball]

Thanks all for your comments! Yes the 2 kits of 20 would be cost effective, just need to fig out if to use proper joining leads or maybe use telephone cable / black cat5 and solder?

I could secure with drawing pins to the rear of the machines...

 

[JT.]

Thanks all for your comments! Yes the 2 kits of 20 would be cost effective, just need to fig out if to use proper joining leads or maybe use telephone cable / black cat5 and solder?

You can get 4 core cable on a reel like this then you can cut to whatever size you need and solder.