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That IS what I'm using. The regular LED with the dome in my picture is what I tried using first. Then I switched over to the super bright with the flat face like the ones you circled in your picture. Neither one illuminates the window properly.I use 555 Wedge (+6.3v) Red 4SMD bulbs on my Midway coin door (+5v) lights. They are nice and short and illuminate them perfectly.
4SMD Bulbs
Our 4SMD pinball bulbs are popular in larger inserts, spotlights, and in situations where you want a low profile bulb without a lens.
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Have you tried these flex LED bulbs?
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Yes. I plan on using them to illuminate the one and two player translucent buttons.Have you tried these flex LED bulbs?
Two Headed Flex Non-Ghosting
When one head isn't good enough, try these 2 headed non-ghosting bulbs. Great for large inserts, or places where you want two points of light with specific positioning. Product Specs Voltage 6.3v Also known as "2smd supreme brightness super flex non-ghosting" Diode Size two 5050 diodes Special...
They would probably work in this instance, but they seem kind of cumbersome. The wedge is so clean it'd be nice to just have a bulb that dropped in that looked just as clean and would illuminate the window correctly.
I kinda can't believe you don't own a rejuvenator with as many games as you have.
What's everyone's experience with them? I had a tube rejuvenated once, and it looked much better at first, but gradually it got darker again. Eventually I replaced the entire monitor with a one with a really nice tube.
Not the first person I've seen move over to the Dark Side and sell all the vids to fund pinball games instead. [in Darth Vader's voice]
Well, the thing is I don't know how they can afford it. He and two other of my friends literally buy every or at least every other brand new pinball machine that comes out every year. The three of them probably have 50 machines between them all averaging $10,000 or more. So that's half a million in pinball machines? You could buy just about every video game ever made for under $500,000.
Get in there and get a pic of the chassis so we can help. If you can't, then get a pic of the remote board. It typically has a model of the remote PCB which we can match up to a chassis. My guess is a K7000 or perhaps a newer chassis from a poker game or touch screen.
Agreed. They are WAY expensive, and you could buy a ton more in vids instead. Me: I only own 1 pin: Stikes and Spares (Bally) which I've had a BLAST restoring.
The saddest part is that I am in a messenger thread and a text thread with these three guys, and every other month they're discussing a new pinball machine that 2 of the 3 if not all 3 are going to buy. In the 10+ years or whatever these threads have gone on, I've barely chimed in, and bought zero pins. I owned a ton of pinball machines between 2011 and 2016 , but never more than four at once, and nothing newer than 1999. These guys literally have 12 to 20 pinball machines each and none of them are older than 2015. They used to have rooms full of video games, and they each still own a few, but they've been selling them all off over the last few years. It's amazing to me how close we all were when we were Arcade guys, but now that three of the four of us have become pin guys, none of us really hang out that much. I haven't seen any of them in over two years where we used to get together 3 to 4 times per year. I guess pinball just isn't a very social hobby. Losing my Arcade buddies, kids are getting older, wife and I are drifting apart, this is not how I planned to live out my last 30 or 40 years on earth.
