When we did our cell phone object.. we used incondescent lights - one on the left, one on right and one over top. I suspect you could double the light positions by light filling from the underside of the object. Your digital camera can handle very low light. 3 100watt lamps in a light box 1m x 1m x 1m or 3' x 3' x 3' photo box with a solid color background drape should be sufficient. The drape should be smoothed out so there are no shadows. If your object is black... then use a white drop. Use a high contrast color drop in relationship to the object colors. Then in Photoshop you can do color replacement to remove the drop color. Like blue to white.
If you wanted to get real technical try light balancing and color temperature fixing the bulbs. Be sure to adjust the camera's white balance according to the light source.
Lighting is a whole different science that does take some study. If you are unsure of the lighting mix suggest using a 18% gray card and tell your camera to learn what 'White' is. I know that the Nikon 990 and the Canon 20d has a camera learn what 'White is' mode.
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