Hey Everyone! First off, I want to give a quick shout out to everyone who has tested and bought some bulbs so far. Your input was great and we are ready to sell to everyone!

Our website is www.PinballBulbs.com and we are also offering a 10% discount to Pinside members! You can use the discount code 'pinside' (no quotes) to receive 10% off your order!

Bulk Discount: For any order of 100 LED pieces, of any kind you can get 15% off. Just use '15off'. This can be 100 bulbs of any combination as well, doesn't have to be 100 of just one color/style.

All of our bulbs use the same LED bulb for easy of use. The frosted are nice and bright, especially the dimmer colors such as orange and yellow. For comparison sake: The bulb inside itself can be compared to the Cointaker susperbright style. They are the larger square bulbs that run about 1.09-1.19$ on their website. We priced all of our bulbs at .75 cents a bulb across the bulb. You can remove the cap of any frosted or clear dome and turn it into a super bright.

We are also offering some other mods at the moment, including shooter rods.

We have some hadn painted, hand molded wolverine and hulk shooter rods. the wolverine is at http://pinballbulbs.com/products/xmen-wolverine-pinball-shooter-rod . I will be adding the hulk rod tonight.

I will also be adding a sample pack that can be ordered from the site.

If you have any questions at all please shoot me a PM and I'd be glad to help or contact us through the website!

Free Bulb Giveaway: (slots are filled! No more free bulb PM's please!)
For the first 20 folks to message I will go ahead and send out a small sample set of bulbs.

Please send me a PM with the following information

Full Name
Address

Thanks everyone!

How to remove cap:

Make sure to shoot a PM (I will announce when limit is reached)

We are planning to be at the NW Pinball show in Seattle!

Definitely less heat and less energy used overall, hence the less heat. I would shoot a PM if you haven't and try some out. Our prices definitely should allow you to try them out without spending too much!

All free slots have been filled! (23 actually before I cut it off). All 23 will have their bulbs sent out tomorrow morning.

Thanks everyone! Let me know if you have any questions. Of course, feel free to order a couple bulbs on the site or message me with questions about pricing, quality etc. Hopefully the lower prices will help overall.

Also, we will be carrying Ghost Busting shortly. A bit more going into those regarding the circuitry, but we hope to carry them soon enough!

EDIT: By the time I posted this there were 26 total. We will go ahead and honor all PMs sent above this post. Thanks again!

Got yours, no worries!

Not 100% on pricing yet. Probably looking in the range of $1.30 ish for non-ghosting.

Will definitely be adding flex! Same time as non-ghosting.

We don't personally make them.

As mentioned above, the current stock does not contain non-ghosting, but will shortly. Along with flex LEDs as well!

Yup.

Thanks! Go ahead and email us over. I will tell you we don't offer massive bulk discounts. This is primarily due to the pretty low and competitive pricing structure already.

Our purples are very purple. The bulbs simply don't photograph too well unfortunately. You can grab a couple from the site if you would like. Use the pinside discount and it shouldn't be any trouble.

P.s - A fellow pinsider pointed out an error with the pinside code. I have corrected and all is working now.

Thanks for working with us on that!

All samples have been sent out!

Yup! Here are the upcoming items to be added shortly

- Kits (machines will be sporadically added over time)
- Flex style bulbs
- non-ghosting bulbs
- flat top dimmer bulbs for when you don't want the serious brightness or mega glow

I have had a ton of people asking about bulk discounting. So, I have created a new promo code for orders over 100 pieces total. This can be 25 red, 25 blue, 25 green, 25 yellow or 100 reds etc. Just over 100 of anything.

The discount for those orders will be 15% off. You can use '15off'!

(If you are wanting to order something over 1,000 just shoot me a message I can get you something worked out)

What markmon said. Pinks and Purples cost us a lot more than the other colors. I would guess a more uncommon color in the world of LEDs perhaps? Not overly sure, but that is why we mark them up slightly higher.

Yup!

- Kits (machines will be sporadically added over time)
- Flex style bulbs
- non-ghosting bulbs

Ah so sorry about that! I was up nice and early to run a quick update on the order creation, but of course we are west coast so east coasters are 3 hours ahead. I'll try to run these at midnight from now on, although they will be super few and far between.

Site is up, so sorry guys! Was down there in maintenance mode for roughly 15-20min.

I haven't added the sample packs yet, although you can snag 1-2 of each bulb you would like to try. That seems to be a really common thing I am seeing people doing!

I believe cointaker's frosted bulbs use the 2 smaller LED chips inside them while ours are currently using the 1 larger chip.

Updated!

a 455 blinking LED does exist. I believe it only comes in white, not 100% on that though. We do nt currently carry them, but I am getting things added fairly often and some of the specialty bulbs are in the mix to get added as well.

Well, they are 6.3 volt so I imagine anything with the same or highly similar voltage they will work. The bayonet and wedge base are common fixtures for many other items so perhaps they would if the voltages were correct.

So I added a sample pack product to the site. I had a number of questions about what to order for a sample. This will include all the colors in frosted and clear domes so you can get an idea of how they work.

http://pinballbulbs.com/content/led-bulb-sample-kit

(I will get a pic of the sample pack up later today)

Correct, no 89 or any flasher styles at the moment.

That sucks, really sorry on that. Only the free samples were sent in envelopes for cost saving since we were paying shipping, packaging and product out of pocket. One other person had this happen. Feel free to pm me your address and I'll resend you some, no worries!

Edit: I pm'ed offering to get another sample pack sent out in our boxes.

You do have a Paypal checkout option. The "credit card" option is secure as it runs through Paypal payments pro as well Doesn't even run through our servers.

My apologies for the confusing site. I had actually tried to make it fairly simple and straight forward. Quick and easy to add products with whatever quantity and no need to always go back and update cart. If you have any questions feel free to shoot me a message and I'd be happy to correct any site issues!

Thanks for the review and pics! I like the side by sides!

I like the "damage in handling in the postal service..." stamp. Arg!

If you want to shoot me your address again I'm happy to send some out in one of our standard shipping boxes which haven't had any Post Office issues...yet!

The envelopes for samples were a bad idea it seems on my part. I'm just not sure how 2 ounces worth of bulbs could allow an envelope to get so shredded.

Yikes! Yeah, they should've been there in 1-2 days. More so on the 1 day mark. If you need samples resent, I'm happy to oblige! Shoot me a PM!

Thanks Rob! We should be getting them in roughly a month or so. Working on non-ghsoting first and flexes and then will add the more "specialty" bulbs such as blinkers and flashers and those odd sized ones.

Lol what? What exactly do you do with the light chains?

Yup! You can snag a sample pack at http://pinballbulbs.com/content/led-bulb-sample-kit You'll get to try 1 or 2 of all the colors and get more bulbs for your money. Definitely worth the value!

Looking forward to it!

Fantastic! We do the same thing with LED strips and then the exact same thing you are doing, but with the light sockets to add some spotlights and give the playfield some light!

Not good! So, it straight up pulled all the way out? It is attached to the LED inside so that means it would've broken off. We have yet to have that happen in all our testing for our own machines. Feel free to message us if it happens some more and we can get it corrected for you!

Thanks darras!

Yup! Sorry for the confusion there. There really sin't a point to make an account without ordering so I made it so accounts are only created upon order and details are sent over to you

On their way actually. Should be up there this week!

Yours went out in a box actually. By the time your samples were requested I stopped using envelopes.

If anyone got a lovely chewed up envelope and would like samples resent please shoot me a message and I'm happy to get sent back out. Sorry about that!

Thanks for the review, very thorough!

First class with the post ofice is actually the slower option than priority mail at times. The post office is all confused

Either way, got the order and it shipped out today. Right in time for when I went to mail them off!

The LED strips are in and we have added them! We currently have 1 LED strip style, but it is the best. They are the easy to work with 300LED/roll and RGB rolls.

You can check them out at http://pinballbulbs.com/products/rgb-color-changing-led-strip-300ledroll

I was in the middle of order processing and the order got printed and packed and in the drop box!

Looks like we got back someone's bulbs in the not so fun "we care" package. If this half of an evelope looks familiar to you let us know! lol

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No Cyans at the moment.

Yeah, they really do! I only sent the first batch of free samples like this. Someone let me know theres was pretty rough so I started using our regular shipping boxes for the last set. If yours is in a box it'll be just fine. If not, we may have to resend because I'm sure customs will eat that envelope right up!

Once it is scanned into the computer it will update. The USPS reuses tracking numbers.

I can get them shipped out for you, not a problem. The local pickup on the site is for 2 of the local ops who I deliver them to since they order such large quantities and quite close to me.

These currently ghost. Cointakers that are comparable to These ghost as well. Their non-ghosting are about 1.59 or so a piece.

We will be adding non-ghosting shortly!

You have to order the non-ghosting to get that. Yeah, they do have the extra Component. If you take off the base off you can see the differences.

Nice!! Glad they got their in time for you! Post up pics of your final led job!

Not true. I have only had one person let me know they are tight on older gottliebs. They slightly shaved the colored ring and they fit perfectly.

They fit just fine in all other games including EMs which we have tested.

I wouldnt officially recommend this, but we have been known to do the same.

Sometimes oddly enough purples look pretty good behind certain spots of tanslites as well as plastics. They bring out the most realistic glow at times. I wouldn't have thought purple, but some people showed me theirs when I was over and it looked great actually. Just a random thought.

I'm going to put a video up here shortly on pulling the caps off. I haven't had too much trouble when I grab with pliers and twist instead of pull or tug it sideways. I do notice the frosted are harder to get off at times. Perhaps the glue they are stuck on with holds better with the frosted style cap opposed to the smooth clears? That'd be my guess. Either way, I'll get the video up that I have tended to have success with shortly.

I do agree. Although, I think he meant some white inserts in general the purples can look alright?

I really doubt it for the cost part that is. Just look at the cost of a good quality ghost busting LED. Over $1. I would presume these to be roughly the same or higher actually. I will look into a design and get with my suppliers. In time, it could be down, but it seems the nature of how an LEd works it just may be not feasible.

I don't want to answer for him, but I did ask him the same thing earlier. I believe it goes Cool white, pink, warm white, pink, cool white. From left to right.

He can of course confirm!

Correct! They should be on the site here shortly!

Here is the quick video for the "squeeze method of removing the bulbs:

Yes, so do I, but they aren't really priced for that. Gotta keep cost down somehow. I have been able to super glue a cap or two back on, although I usually just save that super bright I just made and grab another bulb since I find it to be just easier.

Oh, also! I'll make another thread for it, but since I just bumped this one anyways...

We do now have mirror blades. Nice and shiny finish, they look great! Currently have for both Stern and B/W.

http://www.pinballbulbs.com/pinballmirrorblades

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All one order. I believe you got a sample order, so just a couple warm whites and a couple cool whites? I can grab a random 10 and test them out to see if they do that to me or not as well.

Yeah, of course. I'll go get a pic snapped here shortly and plug it into product photos as well

Well, we sell a bulb comparable to the super brights (and we have caps) for only .75 cents. Those bulbs are roughly 1.09 and .89 on 100leds.com where you have to order 100 of the same color, base etc. We do offer 15off for 15% off orders of 100 bulbs or more with no restrictions on same colors or bases. So, our bulbs are a lower price to start with and then on top of that we offer the discounts.

Also, I'll have to go through and test a good handful or two of warm whites. So far all the warm whites I have seen are the exact same color. I was over somewhere where a guy who as testing for me had about 80 or so in an older bally game from early 70's or so and they all looked the same. We only get warm or cool whites, no other white packages.

Edit: Correction here on my part. It looks like recently on 100leds.com has an offer that you can comment on your order to buy in sets of 25, not just 100. I believe you still need to buy 100 to get the discount, but you can break those 100 up into 4 sets of 25.

Here is a pic of the mirror blades. They were not the easiest to photograph it seems. They pick up everything in a reflection. They are literally "mirror" blades with quite the polished finish on them. Hope this helps!

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Hey thanks for that correction. My apologies, I was just trying to answer someone's question with my current knowledge. I didn't realize that had become the case. I searched around and did just read a post by them saying that what you said is true. You can order and then in the comments specify your colors.

On a sidenote, you are welcome to send us a quick PM and I will correct any info that is incorrect. As a CoinTaker rep I don't really think it is good form to come onto this thread guns ablazing. We have not gone out of our way in this thread to single out and bash cointaker in way, as I've noticed you have done a few times in the Cointaker 15% thread that was created after we launched. We have simply tried to compare the pricing to the best of our knowledge based off what is available on Cointaker's or PinballLife's websites.

Again, thanks for the correction, but as we have not posted in you thread with statements of debate, please don't post in ours. This is a thread to advertise our product, announce new products, discounts and reviews. As you mentioned in the other thread, we are not "s0me gUy pr0viding a look aliKe bulB". I will go as far to say that these, in style, are the same cointaker is offering. We have just done some work with our factory to get the bulb coloring a bit different. They already had this style base, not something we copied.

P.s - this style is used in car LEDs and has been for some time, it is not a revolutionary or new base style at all.

I am already lightened up. I totally get what you had to say, and appreciate you pointing that our for me. However, I think it was your method that was a bit rash. You implied we were talking about Cointaker as in went out of our way to do so and in a highly negative fashion. Incorrect. I was attempting to make a price comparison, which I corrected after your comment. I think your delivery loaded up with "Get it Right!!!" and tons of exlcamation points makes it seem like yelling or an attacking manner. That's all.

Anyways, thank you for that correction, but please let's keep the pinball product competition civil, clean. Two companies can co-exist just fine with their own products, service and pricing. It should hopefully benefit the community greatly!

Let's take this to a PM if we have anymore discussion so we don't get off topic here. Please do feel free to post any comments or reviews about the product or service here though of course!

I would recommend you get some frosted bulbs in that case. You can snag a few of each on this page for whatever colors you would like to get, http://pinballbulbs.com/frosted1 .

Feel free to shoot me a message too if you have any requests for your order, but that should work well. It'll be cheaper than the sample pack I would imagine since you won't get the 555 style.

We will be at the NW pinball show this year in June! We hope to have the non-ghosting,flashers and flexes by then as well!

We are also bringing 2 fully restored games with us. Some heavy hitters too so we can showcase our lighting along with spotlight kits, blades and toppers!

Thanks Wally, the support so far has been great and so far we are glad to have become a leading LED supplier among pinheads. New products are on their way and I will definitely announce and email all those that inquired when they are in!

I addressed this a few times in some of the previous posts. The bulbs being offered for .59 in bulk quantities of 100 of the same color and styles (although ive heard it can be broken into 25 lumps) are not the same bulbs we have. The similar bulbs on their site are .89 and .95 cents with the larger LED chip in them, and without any dome on top.

I get what you are saying. It wouldn't be overly hard/not hard at all, just super time consuming to sort out thousands of warm to warmer whites I do have this cool testing board/box thing someone made for me to test tons at once so that may help things along and I'll see what I can do!

Not quite yet! Should be here end of May or a bit sooner. I'll definitely announce and shoot an email out to all customers so far as well

We have one actually that we use in person at shows etc. Bulbs don't photo quite well so I am contemplating getting a pic posted as it can limit some people from purchasing. The best bet is to snag a sample pack, it's a great value for the bulb count you get. I will see if I can get up a real nice pic of the bulbs on.

I have premiums sitting right here from our same supplier. Have had a few various kinds for a while now on/off to get the proper setup. I didn't order any from CoinTaker to "copy" theirs. Again, these bulbs are available for cars in 12v version, exact same styles.

Competition is competition. I am going through the same process of getting small samples from China and working with them to get what I want in the end. I really don't think that was an appropriate response on your part. Again, I haven't stepped in CoinTaker's thread because I'd like to keep it civil, so please don't step in ours with your picture like that.

P.s - If you are CoinTaker have any issues with our products you are more than welcome to shoot me a message and we can have a phone call about it. Not a problem!

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/miniature-wedge-base/ - Look at #14
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/ba9s-ba7s/ - #2, #3

The wedge and round base are both universal, the bulb chip is just a standard 5050 SMD LED. The same thing used on LED strips from every manufacturer. My point is we didn't send CoinTaker bulbs in and say "please copy these". We told them they were for pinballs, 6v etc and went back & forth with some samples and finally got what we wanted. Took us a few months of sample shipments to get something we liked.

Again, if you have personal issues feel free to shoot me a PM and we can discuss any issues on professional manners. I think it's in poor form to have a debate here, not the thread for it.

Sidenote - http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/emergency-strobe/ - Someone put #10 on their roadshow and add a siren! Or perhaps a child screaming while you play!

We agree Newer shipments we are getting we had them change the base to something we like better with no big ring on it. Took a bit to find a slimmer base that would still work well, but it is coming as well!

Thanks man ,that's what I'm hoping!

Sooooo...we sell LEDs and such. Just in case anyone forgot the thread topic

Thanks for putting this train back on the rails guys

So this may not be ideal, but a few folks who had this issue either used a dremel and shaved a bit off really quick or some higher grit sandpaper. I know it is of course not ideal, but that's also why bases are getting switched out.

Sorry I missed that. They will be right after non-ghosting bulbs. All the benders will be non-ghosting since they go under the PF primarily.

Looking to get all the products I want added and then I will work on some really cool colors.

Just saw this one too. I am on the same page with this. Like others have commented, the pictures just don't do them justice good or bad. They will definitely be different from how they look in person. The best way really is to come see us at the NW show or even easier, order a small chunk from the site. The shipping is really cheap for small orders so it's not too bad to do.

http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/found-a-great-warm-white-led-pinballbulbscom - here are pics Strykers posted a while back comparing the color

So, as many know we get them in 100 packs. I wonder if at times the 100 packs can have slight variance. Meaning, if we get 1000 bulbs then we get 10 packs. Maybe the last pack is after they had to change out the run? Although, we got quite a bit more than 1000 warm whites and so far I haven't found any significant or noticeable variance. What I have been doing is testing 1-2 bulbs for every warm white order to see if I can find differences.

Never! Kidding, of course. Non-ghosting will be here in a week or so. After that comes the Flex so I am guessing they will follow the non-ghosting by about 2 weeks or so. The flex will be in non-ghosting only to start as well since they are used under inserts primarily only.

Thanks for your support guys! Hope your BBQ goes well, Steve!

Probably not for a little while. Working to add the other bulb styles first and then can expand on colors

A lot of the time consumption is back and forth with China to get the styles, bases, bulb colors etc we want. Contrary to popular belief they are not overly fast for production and we don't simply send a specific bulb back to them and ask for it to be remade. The toppers, rods etc don't take up my time that interferes with working on the bulbs, no worries!

https://www.facebook.com/PinballBulbs - If anyone has FB and feels the need to connect there I made a FB page. Should be a cool place to put picture updates as well

We should have the non-ghosting plus+ at the NW pinball show this weekend and I will have them on the site to order by Monday!

Looking sharp! Thanks for posting a solid pic! DAng that PF is briiight

Non-ghosting are here! I'm adding them to the site now in the down times at the NW Pin show. Should be up shortly and i will announce!

I ordered all frosted for a couple reasons:

1. You only need this for the inserts pretty much so you can use a frosted bulb and if not bright enough simply pop that cap off and you get a super bright bulb which will definitely do the job

2. Frosted are a much larger seller than clear so I went with what has sold a lot more currently.

I do get clear bulbs can work well for under inserts as well, although popping cap off works really well for a bright insert and the difference between a popped off cap and clear for under insert are pretty minute. So, if the demand is high enough I could get clear dome bulbs as well, not a problem. I just didn't forsee they would be popular because caps can be popped off.

Always 15% off for any order over 100 bulbs.

Just a note. We got new shipment in for pretty much all styles and colors and they have the smaller ring on the cap so they should fit better in older gottliebs and EM machines. I will be using the old stock to ship out first, and they work just fine in nearly all games, but if you have an older gottlieb or EM please shoot me a message or mention that in order comments and I will make sure to open a new pack of the new style for you. The older style shouldn't be around for too much longer.

Yes. Whats up with the pic? Confused what that is on the right side of the pic. Doesn't look like a bulb, kinda blob like.

More than aware Just copied the description from the other products since I was doing this on my laptop during the down times at the show.

Interesting. Whether I use my nicer rebel or my cell phone it never picks that up on any bulbs I've ever taken a pic of.

It is in the works Got a few similar requests so I've been working on something!

1) For the most part, but there is going to be some of the older wide ring style left. If you have a gottlieb or older style game, just let me know in the order comments and I'll make sure you get all new style.

2) We only use the one larger SMD inside which does help the "hot spots" so I haven't noticed any of that.

3) Sample packs get pre-made in batches so some might contain the newer style, but it looks like some have the older style as well. Again, just specify in order comments and I can make sure all new styles go out.

4) There is no limit per person on sample packs so by all means order as many as you need and let me know if you need those newer style bulbs.

Thanks!

1. We totally agree! In fact, our kits don't even use yellow bublsa primarily. We like to use warm white and the secret weapon, pink, behind yellow inserts or plastics. The color itself is just so dull. We have forced them to be brighter manually, but they get washed out.

2. That really sucks! I'm gonna be honest and say I'm not too sure they can be made much thinnner, which is a bummer, but I will look into it.

3. Monday all will be here finally, hooray!

4. Glad you got it working how you liked it!

5. good to hear

And finally here and on the site!

All flex bulbs, flashers and some new additions have arrived.

We also have the no solder spotlight kits finally done!
http://www.pinballbulbs.com/products/double-spotlight-kit-6-32 and http://www.pinballbulbs.com/products/double-spotlight-kit-8-32

Also, all the flexes are currently non-ghosting

Of the frosted ones we are out at the moment. Should be back in possibly by around Wednesday/Thursday of this week it looks like.

The clears are still in stock though.

P.s - lowered price of spotlights to $20

Looking good fattrain! Now where are those spotlights??

If you put a 6v bulb in a 12v socket it would be super intense, sort of like twice as intense. I would say it would be a really bright and blinding lil bulb in there. Being LEDs and their nature it wouldn't burn out as fast as an incandescent in there, but definitely not recommended.