So I've got a few games where the I have particularly bad GI strobing when I put in LEDs (Hoops mainly, as the inlane guides for some reason aren't in the main GI thread). I've tried the Flux bulbs and while they work amazingly in effect, I'm not a huge fan of the look of must of the bulbs. I'd love to be able to add something in line with the lamp socket so a 2SMD frosted could be used.

Anybody experimented with how to recreate this effect manually by attaching a capacitor and which value you'd use?

#2 1 year ago

PIP

Quench

Pinside member

8y 114K 8,041

The G.I. in classic solid state games is AC powered.

LEDs operate on DC. Most pinball LED globes have an internal mini bridge rectifier to convert the external AC to DC internally.
If you're using LED globes not designed for AC (i.e. missing the mini bridge rectifier) they will flicker noticeably.

Capacitors are only useful in this application when used on the DC side - i.e. you'd have to open up the LED base and install the cap inside it on the output of the mini bridge.

The only other way to resolve this externally is to convert the G.I AC into DC or use a separate DC power-supply.

Or try some other vendors LED globes.

Reply

Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.

Hey there! Welcome to Pinside!

Donate to Pinside

Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!

This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/comet-flux-bulb-tech and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.

Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.