I think any 13/12 volt BA9 type LED will work to replace the Balrog LED (but will not replace the old incandescent). The BA9 are available on various internet sites.

This one may work and is red the way you probably want it:

http://www.amazon.com/LED-T10-BA9S-5HP-5050-SMDLED-RD-Adapter-Bright-Interior-Console/dp/B00AR13AOK/ref=sr_1_19

I decided to order one. It should be quite a bit brighter than the LED Stern used.

LOL, free shipping

Is this the only game that uses a 13 volt BA9s/44/47 style bulb?

The stock one seems plenty bright to me. Never felt the need to upgrade.

The thing tends to die getting bonked over and over, at least mine did many times.

Interesting. I've owned LOTR twice now and never had an issue on either one of them.

Well I've only owned it once I guess.... but it's been over 8 years now. Switched bulbs a few times over the first year then changed to the LED and never had a problem since.

Thanks DCFan, I ordered one too. Will report on how it works.

I hope you get the right item. I received mine yesterday and it was wedge base rather than bayonet. I sent them and e-mail and they apologized and said they will send me the correct LED.
The nice thing is that Amazon is really good about protecting the buyer.

lol

That is disappointing

Mine arrived this week. It is the correct bayonet style. Unfortunately, I have been working late every evening and haven't had a chance to install it yet. Will update once I do. Fingers crossed.

If that doesn't work, just order this http://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/502-5022-00.
Mine already had the correct socket so I just used the bulb.

Never got into Balrog before to change the bulb. Pretty easy?

Ha not really. Need to remove Balrog from the frame, which involves removing a screw that is attached to a switch in the back.

It is kind of close quarters in there, but not too bad at all. The manual has a nice drawing of it that is helpful.

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yea that's true, I think just the first time trying to figure it out was a bit of a pain. Once you know what your doing it's easy, but definitely not the easiest light to change in the game.

Great! Thanks guys! Now that I think about it, I haven't seen my Balrog flash in awhile so it might have finally burned out.

I remember when I first replaced the ring flasher I never knew existed with a white LED flasher. I was blown away! :-p

I ordered a double stack set from ebay, $5, free shipping, and there are two to a set.

I used one of the 5 HP ones a while back that was a 5v just to see what it looked like. For the 10 seconds it worked, it look goooooooood.

I ordered one of these LEDS that DCFAN suggested.I put it in and it didn't work.Because this bulb is polarized I had to switch the wires on the socket and it worked fine.Thanks DCFAN for the lead on this bulb.

I'm not electrical, and don't get polarized...
Does this mean you just soldered them to the opposite sides they were initially on?

Cool. Thanks. I will order some today!
How does the light look?

Whatever is in mine (2004) has never failed.

Dewey how is the brightness of the new 5-sided LED?

I was able to take an incandescent 44 type bulb and break the glass on it. I then took the 5-sided wedge LED that I received and took that out of the wedge base and soldered just the LED part to the 44 style base. It worked like a charm. The nice thing about the 5 sided LED is that it is a little brighter but also lights up the back of the Balrog's neck so it looks like it is on fire.

The same wedge style 5-sided LEDs are also sold by Cointaker so I think I would buy from them and make my own 44 style out of that if I ever needed a replacement.
The picture below shows the back of the neck lit up and gives it a nice fire look:
IMG_0438.JPG

Just want to say thanks for the polarity tip! The Balrog is back!

Hi-

I read the advice from Pinside at the bottom of this thread, but I'm resurrecting it because it was helpful in my quest to fix my own Balrog light, and current info is hard to find. I thought I'd tack on a solution for 2019.

Previous owners of my LOTR had switched to the 44/47 (9 mm) bayonet mount (probably from the Stern kit described in the bulletin), but the LED in there was broken. I of course tried to put in a standard 5V 44 bulb, and it burned bright for several seconds until it burned out.

Here is a link to a now-discontinued bulb, provided by DCFAN
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/lord-of-the-rings-balrog-led#post-480508

At Super Bright LEDs, I found BA9s LED bulbs with 9 mm bayonet base, operating in the range necessary for the 12.6V flasher voltage. The five 5050 SMD LEDs on the bulb emit light in 360 degrees. I chose & installed red, but also bought warm white just in case.
https://www.superbrightleds.com/moreinfo/ba9s-ba7s/ba9s-led-bulb-5-smd-led-tower-ba9s-retrofit-car/2077/4725/

I had to switch the polarity in order for the BA9s LEDs from SuperBrightLEDs to work, by re-soldering the wire leads to opposite sides of the bayonet mount inside the Balrog.

This update also applies to these old threads:
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/lotr-balrog-flasher-inferno
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/lord-of-the-rings-balrog-led
Useful info to remove parts to get at light here:
https://rec.games.pinball.narkive.com/XSWhLdtc/replacing-the-flasher-for-balrog-on-lotr
(I see LTG was helping people at r.g.p. a long time ago!)

A video of the Balrog at the beginning of FOTR multiball:

Finally, some pictures of the Balrog at game start, during a Bash Balrog sequence, and of the LED.
Balrog_StartGame (resized).JPGBalrog_Bash (resized).JPGSuperBrightLEDs_BOM (resized).JPG