After a year of work, colored translucent lit buttons are finally available.

Presenting: Greenlights Lit Buttons

Greenlights is my new company for selling empeg accessories and for helping other people bring their product ideas to reality. Please be sure to read the FAQ for important lit button usage information.

Please note, orders outside the USA must add the $2.50 shipping item at the top of the products page (if there's a better way to handle separate domestic and international shipping rates, please let me know). Greenlights is ready to accept orders of any size. Orders will begin to ship Tuesday morning. Please contact me with any questions, ideas, suggestions, complaints, etc that you may have.

Thank you THANK YOU for all of your support and patience during this project. I know some of you have waited two and a half years for these buttons. I've dreamed of posting this picture since day one.

That's a beautiful picture all right. Thanks for all your hard work, I can't wait till I can afford a full set.

Matthew

Wow, and here I thought you'd just put up a rudimentary site with a PayPal address. Very nicely done; it seems the curse is broken!

Awesome!

Ordered! Am I the first?

Really appreciate the effort. I hope the reds or amber match the BMW nicely.

Let me just comment that these buttons are extremely well done! They are very high quality / very professional.

People who have, or have seen, Brian's cast buttons will notice that these are slightly more translucent and also have a finer / smoother finish due to the method of manufacture and materials used. So even if you have a set of the hand cast buttons, you should still pick up a set of these as well.

And let's not forget the clear and the non-translucent black buttons!!! I am curious to see or read about any neat hacks that can be accomplished with these.

Congratulations again on a great job! And thanks!

Congratulations! Updating the page links and the FAQ now.

Love the "G" logo on the home page.

How much blood did you end up having to spill into the box?

One concern, though: Don't earthlink home pages have a bandwidth/data cap? Keep an eye on that. Not that I'm worried you'll get slashdotted or anything.

Full set + crystal + stealth sets ordered!

Thank you very much FireFox31! This is a great job you did! I' can't wait to recieve them all!


Edit:
And, I joined the mailing list I'd love the metal ones!

Hijack v432: buttonled_dim=n

And... Congratulations for the excellent FAQ! Firefox, you really did a great job, and deserve this to be said here!

Thanks much, FireFox! Looks good, and I can't wait for 'em to show up.

--Nathan

What, you couldn't find a song title with Amber in it?

Way to go man! Once I find the status of my memory board (what happened to those things?) I'll order up a few sets of these.

... although my name's not Bamber.

Thanks for all of your kind words. Now I'll be packing these things all night for shipment tomorrow.

Tony: Wow, you don't even want to know how much blood I spilled. I'm not sure I'll get it back, but I'll sure try. Luckily the website is tiny, so it shouldn't hit the limit.

taym: Metal buttons will so happen. They shouldn't be so hard... famous last words. Oh, and I owe you credit for using your "taym white" Filener gell; the lightest pink which makes the VFD look pure white.

Matk: Woah, variable dimmer between night and day? Awesome, thanks.

Brad: Couldn't find a song with "amber", but the observant mainstream club dance track fan will note that I found an artist of that name.

Wow, time to stop waiting on hold with PayPal phone support who never answers and start packing. Thanks again.

CONGRATS! These look sweeet. I'm interested in a set of black but I'd like to know what they look like with a lighting kit in the dark. Can the light be seen around the edges of the buttons and knob at all?

They should look the same as the factory buttons in that regard (in a dark room). Perhaps someone will give that a try and report back, while waiting for the black to arrive.

There is very little (almost zero) light leakage around the directional buttons. There is a backglow from around the knob, where the fascia is open for the IR sensor, but that is about it.

All I can say - WOW!
I haven't visited the forum for a while and just this morning I'v got an e-mail from Eutronix about Greenlights' translucent button availability.
A full order has already been placed

Thanks so much FireFox!

Now only if there were translucent lit handles...

To answer a few people from a few threads that I didn't want to hijack:

Yes, I will be bringing buttons to Amersfoort for the meet. They will be sold at a slight discount from the web price. And, you'll save shipping cost, currency conversion cost, and won't have to wait for the package to arrive. (and it'll be less work for me because, phew, I was up till 3:30am last night packing orders... though I only started at 11pm).

I was hoping to create some special custom modified buttons especially for the meet, but I have to reclaim my Dremel tool. We'll see...

I couldn't resist, I had to superset.
Thanks

thank you very much! I am one of many who have waited 2.5 years. I have a few friends not from the bbs who are interested. I will be ordering at LEAST 1 complete set of all colors in the next few weeks. This is a HUGE improvement to the empeg, i'm so glad someone finally did it.

Lest anyone become concerned by my previous posting here (definitely NOT the intent), please note the following from that posting:

Quote:
the look is very nice and appealing to the eye.

Cheers!

No worries! Mark's observation is very accurate and I agree 100%.
I tried to insert enough smilies to show that my reply and story were informational and not argumentative. All is good.

Different topic, Value Added Tax and import duty. I just finished a two work-night search and found everything I didn't want to know about these costs.

It looks like the duty + VAT for these parts will add between $15 (Australia) and $30 (Denmark, Sweeden) per $100 order. 3.7% duty to the EU + 16-25% VAT.

For everyone who placed international orders: I have them filled, but I've been working as hard as possible to see if you need to pay duty and VAT. It looks like I can't avoid it. I will ship them as soon as (or before) I find a cost-saving solution for you.

Are there any legal methods for reducing or eliminating the duty and VAT? Are international customers ok with these costs? I'm sorry that I did not discover this information earlier. I will post it on my site ASAP.

Simple to reduce or eliminate the VAT. Perfectly "legal" (in quotes).

These are just simple piece of plastic. Their actual "value" is pennies each. Obviously you've priced them reasonably to make up for the costs of the mould and labour, etc...

But who's to say you have to value them on customs forms for the price you're selling?

Sample customs forms:

"Description: Spare plastic button caps"
"Declared value: $1.00"

Done.

If you're doing a huge batch, maybe value the entire thing a bit more. Like $10.

Hey, when I place my order for 3 sets to Canada, they better be valued at $1.

Bruno