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maddog14

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I am LEDing my TAF. Got it looking the way I want....except on the orange.

I started of with ablaze-1. turned out to be too dark and no 'pop'

Tried a couple of the whites and it was too washed out.

any suggestions?
 
I am LEDing my TAF. Got it looking the way I want....except on the orange.

I started of with ablaze-1. turned out to be too dark and no 'pop'

Tried a couple of the whites and it was too washed out.

any suggestions?

I usually use cointakers super brights...the oranges are pretty dull but you can substitute yellow if you want something really bright....just a thought.
 
I used Cointaker's on my Scared Stiff. Which bulbs are you using? The curved ones or the dimpled flat ones? I had to play around with a few different bulb colors and types to get the effect I wanted. I also picked up some generic non name bulbs from a vendor at a show I was at for .40 cents apiece. So I scooped a few different colors and styles to achieve what i wanted to do.
 
LEDs - Don't!

All,

When changing stuff like this, it is important to understand that color is secondary to the original design function and failure modes.

The use of LED lamps in legacy pinball machines is a risk to your machine.

LEDs have a different failure mode from an incandescent lamp. Most LEDs have a rectifier in the lamp base - rectifiers can fail open, or DEAD SHORT TO GROUND. Normal lamps just fail open, with few, relatively rare exceptions.

If the rectifier fails by Dead Short, it will at a minimum, blow the driver chip out. At a maximum (if the driver doesn't blow out), it can blow traces right off the board. Since these connections aren't individually fused, the normal fuse that feeds the board is too big (since it covers the entire output) to go, before damage occurs.

This is the voice of experience here - we had a very expensive board on an analog control system get traces blown off it when the LED rectifier failed to ground. Be careful - and the older your pinball, the more careful you need to be. It doesn't take much to burn the cloth insulation of the wires in these games.
 
Aaaggh! I just led'd my TSPP today. That's scary stuff.

My thought for the OP, stick w the orange. Otherwise it may get screwy
Good luck!
 
Cointaker is way overpriced. Go with the 4led from pinballlife.

http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=2561

Their frosted LEDs are very bright and much less than pinball life's 4 led bulbs.

I don't find the cheaper ablaze bulbs bright enough for most applications but it's been awhile since I tried them...$0.39 is a good price for sure.

Their ghostbusters LEDs are pricey but I love their frosted bulbs and use their flexible LEDs and ultra brights sparingly.
 
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