Apex Ambient Backlight Kit (Expansion Module)

Name: Apex Ambient Backlight Kit (Expansion Module)
SKU: APX-LED-MAT
Price: 65.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$65.00

⚠️ REQUIRES APEX CORE: This is an expansion module. You must own the Apex Core Base Unit to connect and drive this hardware.

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SKU: APX-LED-MAT Category: The LED System

Expand the visual field of your cabinet in real-time.

The Apex Ambient Backlight Kit is a dedicated expansion that plugs directly into your Apex Core controller. Utilizing dual premium, high-density 40-LED tape light strips, this kit illuminates the rear of your backbox with incredible brightness and precision.

It casts dynamic, synchronized ambient lighting against the wall behind your machine, pulling the game’s atmosphere completely out of the cabinet and into your room. Driven by our proprietary smoothing algorithms, the frame transitions are cinematic, rich, and completely fluid.

System Requirements & Compatibility:

Spike 3 Machines: 100% compatible with all Spike 3 titles natively.
Spike 2 Machines: Compatible with select Spike 2 titles. IMPORTANT: Your Spike 2 machine must have the official Stern Expression Lighting Kit already installed to use our system. The factory Spike 2 architecture requires the Stern expression daughterboard to provide the dedicated data signal that our hardware pulls from.

Demystifying Spike 2 Compatibility (Pro, Premium, & LE) While Stern traditionally gates their factory Expression Lighting and 5.25″ speaker plates to Limited Edition (LE) models, our system does not require an LE machine. However, because the factory Spike 2 node boards do not output the necessary ambient lighting data stream on their own, your Spike 2 machine (whether it is a Pro, Premium, or LE) MUST have at least one official Stern Expression Lighting Kit (either the cabinet lights or the speaker lights) already installed. Our Apex Core controller utilizes that existing Stern daughterboard to pull the data required to drive our expanded LED arrays.

Game Model

Pokémon (Spike 3 – Native Plug & Play), Star Wars: Fall of the Empire (Spike 3 – Native Plug & Play), The Walking Dead Remastered (Spike 3 – Native Plug & Play), Transformers (Spike 3 – Native Plug & Play), Deadpool (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), Elvira’s House of Horrors (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), Foo Fighters (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), Godzilla (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), James Bond 007 (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), John Wick (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), Jurassic Park (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), Led Zeppelin (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), Metallica Remastered (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), RUSH (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit), Venom (Spike 2 – Requires existing Stern Expression Kit)