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Can someone explain the Stern LED situation?

By herg

11 years ago


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    #13 11 years ago
    Quoted from DugFreez:

    I can only speak for X-Men LE (but I believe TRON LE was the same way). The leds in X-Men LE are just white LEDs on a small circuit board (not color changers as you have speculated). These small circuit boards are each connected to an LED control board under the playfield. X-Men has 4 of these LED control boards linked together under the playfield.

    As for the GI lights in the game...they use regular 44 and 555 sockets. The GI lighting can change in the game, but they way it does it is not from using color changing bulbs. There are basically red, white and blue GI bulbs scattered throughout the game. Each color is on a different line. So if the game wants the GI to be red...it just shuts off the white and blue line. If it wants the GI to be blue...it shuts off the red and white line. ect, ect.. to get whatever combination of GI lighting it wants.

    AC/DC does have some color changing inserts. I am not sure how these are done.

    I'm confused about this myself with respect to replacements:

    So what are the specs when ordering replacements (IE--what specific bulbs do you order: in the past you'd ask for 1LEDs vs 3LEDs in 44s or 555s, etc...so what do you ask for now?)/and who sells them?

    Seems like the game list this applies to thus far is:

    1. TRON LE
    2. ACDC
    3. XMEN

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