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Clear or Frosted LEDs for late 70s SS?

By mrm_4

6 years ago


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  • Latest reply 6 years ago by CaptainNeo
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    “Clear or Frosted LEDs”

    • Clear 4 votes
      12%
    • Frosted 27 votes
      82%
    • Who cares 2 votes
      6%

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    #5 6 years ago

    I use frosted 2smb comet daylight white in all my early SS. They look natural , have great light distribution. I will not use anything else for GI's. Both in backbox and playfield. If 2smb is too bright for you, use 1smb.

    #13 6 years ago
    Quoted from Timerider:

    Even on skin tones?? I gave up trying to LED my Bally Eight Ball. Every brand/color I tried made Fonzie & Pinky look either yellow/jaundice, or death-blue clammy.
    I've stuck with incandescent in most of my backboxes (and PF GI), with sparingly highlights.

    i use 2smb white's on every game, always daylight, with no exceptions for GI's. For backboxes I use them, but pull all the bulbs except 6-8 of them to reduce glare. Backbox lights up good and you never know 82% of the bulbs are gone. Glare is drastically reduced.

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    #51 6 years ago

    plus you don't want super bright in the backbox. You want as little light as you can get away with in the backbox. Cuts down on glare drastically. You would be surprised at how little of light you need to illuminate a backglass. 6-7 bulbs total in the entire backbox and you don't even know that's all that's in there.

    #62 6 years ago
    Quoted from SealClubber:

    I don't really like SMDs. I prefer comets 1LED retro frosted for backbox and 2LED frosted for other locations (for the most part). Darker colors need a brighter bulb. But, everyone will be different.

    well considering you should never be using colors to light illumination it should be irrelevant. Colors are only used for inserts and you only really need it to shoot upward to illuminate the insert.

    For Backbox and GI's. Warm white 1smb, or 2 smb depending on how bright you like your playfield and backbox lighting.

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