Even if such a thing is possible, would it fit inside the bulb housing in the required cap/resistor values? And I'm not sure about what such a thing would cost, but when you start looking at 350-500$ to LED out a modern game with large numbers of inserts.....yeah, makes Herg's board look reasonable by comparison.

It would be ideal for GI though. We already have the above mentioned solution for controlled lamps. I know Herg said he was looking into a board that would filter and fade the entire GI circuit but he doesn't believe it will be feasible even with the small current draw of LEDs compared to incandescents.

Or it can be something completely different like the standard LEDs we have now with a light persistent cap on them coated with some form of compound that lights up slowly and remains lit when light is removed.

Sorry, if I should not post this in the thread of the supplier, but I'm just answering.

Even, if I have not tested personally, the Optiflux LEDs from SuperfluxShop have a build-in capacitor, which should slightly fade the LEDs.

There is also a video, but I have to admit that I have trouble to identify the effect.

Thanks for posting that. Their site is hard to navigate though. Can you post a link to this LED?

Looked at their Theater of Magic video and didn't see anything special about those LEDs. Any input PBB?

Is there an LED that operates at different light intensities with varying voltage? I'm thinking of Stern's 2007 Spiderman where the bulbs operate at different light intensities depending on how many time the villians have been defeated (amongst other things).

Great - I'll keep a look out for updates.

If you can make a simple fading LED that gradually fades on and fades off at the rate of a miniature incandescent that would be a breakthrough in retro pinball lighting. Really all you would need is a resistor in series with a cap, put those 2 in parallel with the LED. Voltage applied, resistor slowly charges the cap and brightens the LED. Voltage removed, cap drains and LED fades off. Also, the LED itself acts as a half-wave rectifier for AC GI circuits, and 60 pulses per second should still be plenty of power to keep the LED lit at a steady brightness.

If you can pull off a fading warm white that would be amazing. Even more so if you can do it for under $1 per LED! It's something that hasn't been done before and would really help games that like to flash GI become not so disorienting, not to mention it would be one step further to an ideal incandescent LED replacement!

Oh hell yeah, if you can pull that off I'd buy soooo many. just sayin. You'd sell the proverbial $h!tton!

Wow, you're clearly copying CoinTaker!

The difference between a game with LEDs and then a game with PinballBulbs LED Kit. The spotlights and LED strips make quite the difference!

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Sorry about bumping an old thread, I came across it while looking for some LEDs to outfit one of my games.

In any event with regards to dimming - LED lamps require a pulse width modulation circuit to "dim" and even then it is limited. A LED requires a min voltage to "turn on" (electrons start to flow) and remains on until the voltage drops below this threshold, increasing this voltage past the "turn on" voltage does not make it brighter. Unfortunately it is not a as simple process as incandescent bulbs which dim as voltage drops. So, no adding resistors/caps will not help.

BTW - awesome the way the Fish Tales playfield is lit in the posted pictures, an improvement for sure.

Pinballbulbs kits look fantastic! The ONLY things that could make them look better is a 20% off Pinsider / Halloween sale

More variety please. And colour changers. Love pinballbulbs though.

Stuff like ultra brights and those ones that go in the pop bumpers Like this:

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OR LIKE THIS TO GO IN THE POPS OR JUST GI

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I wouldn't bother with stuff like that. Tried them and they are crap compared to what you already have in the line up.
I would like blinkers in colors other than cool and warm. And colored flex blinkers

There are only three bulbs in the line up now, clear, frosted and flex. Need some variety. Need some really bright ones. I tried frosted in the bumpers and not bright enough for my tastes.

What are blinkers??

I'll tell you what you need. You need a "double " flex bulb with 2 separate lights on two separate flexy thingies (sorry to get technical). That way you can increase the "spread" in larger inserts but even better, you can aim them in different directions. Maybe even have some with 2 different colors. The pinball center in Europe has these and I think it's just brilliant. I'm always looking for ways to throw light in more directions. This is a way.

Hey PBB, that TOTAN I traded you had some of those under the spinning lamp if you want to see what he's talking about. They are REALLY handy for larger spots like that and the "hot dog" shaped inserts.
Oh, and are those yellows back in stock?

Are your yellows as "weak" in color output as what I've seen from other vendors? I bought some 5 LED high outputs (look like your flashers...might BE your flashers) from CT and they just seemed blah, like every other yellow I've ever seen in any style.

Yellow just plain sucks. I don't bother with them. Use warm white under yellow inserts, they look WAY better than a yellow LED does.

On my last Pinballbulbs order they sent me a pink sample with a note attached to try it under a yellow insert, so I did. I can't really wrap my brain around it but it looks great.

Ya. Yellow (and orange) should never be used other than say playfield signs where yellow is required to be seen by the eye. This is why we keep stock so low on these two colors. All our kits use either pink, warm white, or cool white to light yellow and orange inserts. These provide bright and nice tones of yellow under a yellow plastic. On my pirates, warm white was used on GI areas that should be golden. On cactus canyon, pink was used in the GI under the yellow side plastics and you cant really even tell its pink. On monster bash, we are using pink in the golden pop caps and warm white in the GI in the golden area by the mummy. Just some examples.

What are blinkers??

I'm excited to jump on board an try these. I have two sets of optiflux installed, Tron and Spiderman.
I'm very interested in seeing how your kits/bulbs compare - as I've got MM and MB along with the Woz kit on order.
I did use the 10% pinsider discount (if there is a 20% discount I missed, I'm bummed).

Will you be at Chicago Expo?
Will you do a LOTR kit?

Can't wait to get my new kits!
Markmon, it's about time you started offering some LED kits!
Nice work guys.
-and appreciate the 10% off discount.

Good luck!

I just added a flipper area illumination kit to Avengers and I'm very happy with it. Good job PinballBulbs!

I also bought a pair of the double spotlights. Markmon, any pics of where you placed yours?

Yeah I just finished adding the kit to my JM and it is outstanding !!!

It's even *better* than the pic they have on their site as they have upped their game and it now adds 6 spotlights to the PF (3 double headers). Purple is the way to go with the spots as it does NOT look too purple at all - just lights up the PF and makes the colors POP. If you do red or blue it simply colors over your PF artwork so Mark and James have a great plan happening...

The hidden led strip by the flippers not only looks super cool but really helps your play as you can see everything happening down there - then with the added led strip at the back of the PF this is far more than a simple led swap.
My kid came to see it (machine is kept in folk's basement) and his eyes were like saucers... and I had already warned him it was awesome in advance... ha

Not a bad bulb in the bunch btw - plus the ability to pop off the frosted cover to get a "super bright" is a cool plus...
nice guys too. Never to busy to reply.

Ok enough gushing here... I'm usually the more crabby cynical type

which led bulb replaces my old 455?

A 455 is basically a 44 blinker. Pinballbulbs doesn't carry this. I doubt the demand is high enough to try to carry those.

Cointaker carries these - http://shop.cointaker.com/category.sc;jsessionid=88DE90EC27696F2C534F63BE77B00736.m1plqscsfapp05?categoryId=82

But PinballBulbs did state around a week ago that they were working on offering these themselves.

1. Do you guys not carry warm white flashers?

2. Any chance of getting cyan colors?

3. What is the pinside discount code?

Thanks James - the Transformers kit looks awesome! The instructions were great and made the conversion very quick and painless.

Hey guys love my Tron kit... Quick question is there a way to tie the supplied light strip that mounts above the light cycles into the GI so it doesn't stay on all the time?
Thanks

anything for Black Friday or Cyber Monday ?

I am looking for a LED kit for High Speed II.

I didn't see one on your site, anyone have recommendations ?

regards,

Steve

Just made the kit last night and sent to James to post. Please email [email protected] and James will take care of you. Picture taken in a pitch dark room without any ambient lighting. Color tones always suck in photos taken in the dark. It doesn't look as pink in real person.

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So the strips require 12v. You'd have to tie it into the GI circuits with something like a pig2. That would trap the 5v input and still allow a 12v output.

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