I also had to replace 10-20 LED's I wish they used bulbs, hey last longer than these.
Allen

That sucks! LEDs definitely shouldn't burn out that fast. I wonder if Cointaker had a bad batch. FWIW, a lot of people replace the flashers below the pop bumpers with colored LED flashers. They look great!

I had 2 boards fail in the first couple months. The main LED control board and the opto board for the AC/DC drops. Stern sent me replacements and they were easy to install.

I totally agree with your general sentiment about too many problems for a new machine. If it weren't so fast/fun, I would have moved it by now. Until now, I've been very pleased with the quality of my Stern purchases (LOTR/TSPP/SM/POTC/AP). Seems like the high prices are accompanied by low quality. Oh well.

The brand new LED flashers kept burning out? That's very odd. I wonder if something is slightly out of spec with your game's power.

I also had the TNT targets reset and Stern sent a new opto board out. There was an issue with my bell going off all the time after about 50 games,another opto board was needed.

I had two bad insert led boards, they send me replacements, no trouble so far. But a few weeks ago from day to day in the end ALL!!! my blue GI leds gone bad and three red ones. Sry to say this if they are from cointaker but I think they were garbage. I changed them with ones I've got from a shop here (superfluxxer) and they look better in my opinion and no problems with these so far.

Also changed nearly all my Blue GI LED's and some red's and now one of my TNT targets doesn't always register when it drops?

Pretty sure Stern will take care of this all directly.

My AC/DC had the cannon motor problem. Two months and 4 cannon motors later, the problem is fixed ( knock on wood).

I had several of the 2 LED bulbs burn out, too. Must be that particular bulb because I never had a problem with any other CoinTaker products.

I wonder if cointaker are aware of this problem LED? we all seem to have the same issues although I have replaced mine with the same LED from an Australian distributor and so far there fine maybe it was a bad batch like the crap balls lol

Maybe they are cranking out much more of the 2 led bulbs since they are the sole supplier for Stern LE's now and the quality is suffering. I know, I have replaced a dozen or so of those on my AC/DC.

When I see Chris and Melissa at Expo, I'll definitely mention it to them.

Word on the street is that the code revision 1.60 and 1.61 are killing the LED's. I have two bad LED boards and 14 LEDs mostly red that are toast.

I lost one of my RGB boards before the code updates. It turned a bluish color, and would not function in "red" mode. Pat sent me some spares and it's all good there. So far I've also lost one red double LED and a blue one, both before the code updates. I think they are just an inferior LED. Anyone know where they are from?

CT supplied the bulbs and the boards. You have to give Stern some slack as long as they address the issue. It is there first RGB LED game.

I wonder if switching to a single led instead of the doubles would make a difference?

I had the TNT drop target issue. New opto board solved the problem. Stern was kind enough to send me a new board.

The bulbs....oh man....they look so awesome but yeah, buy a ton because they don't last for anything. Or just switch to some cointaker frosted. Those 2 led ones just don't have any life. I had a couple out, so I ordered 3 of each color. Then I went through those in about 1 week and ordered more the next time around.