Milwaukie, OR
Quoted from barakandl:What i do not seeing discussed and should be is....
LONGEVITY....
LED bulbs are being touted as lasting much longer... forever over incandescent bulbs. The reality is a lot of pinball led bulbs dim out quick. I stayed at a rental property with a Spiderman by Stern pinball. At first I thought the GI was not working. The GI was working, just the LEDs where incredibly dim. Typical overdriven LED failure mode.
So who has the best LEDs comparing all factors, price, color spectrum, flicker, burn time before fading, etc....
WE have about 25 games in our home gameroom and they are on a ton. Someone turns them on and they remain on a majority of the day. About 5 years ago our first LEDs we had (which were identical and from same factory as cointaker purchased from at that time) dimmed out. They were the 5050 smd. Our ones we carried about 6 months after that, so about the last 4.5 years have not seemed to dim and some of the same games exist in the gameroom from that time. It was definitely a pain finding a new factory who could build the new ones we wanted to different specs, but they were found and cost a lot more, but have gotten cheaper a bit over time as we've bought more and more. We are going to the NW show this weekend and will have about 10~ games there. A few should be ones that the LEDs are a few years old and I know 2 at least were done this last 2 weeks so they can be good to compare the dimming factor. Both old and new looked the same to me in the shop!
