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LED blinker bulbs - has randomness been solved?

By Durzel

4 years ago

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I've replaced all the bulbs in my TZ and TAF with LEDs, which means now that the blinkers that were once totally random are basically "slow" or "fast", using Comet bulbs.

Has there been any solution that will make LED blinkers truly random? I found this thread - https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/genuine-ge-455-andor-545-blinker-video - from a couple of years ago, but it doesn't seem like there was a conclusion.

NiftyLED apparently had a random blinker bulb, at least according to
this page, but they were absorbed by Comet and it doesn't seem like they sell this or a comparable bulb anymore.

I have the old incandescent blinker bulbs but as I'm running GI OCD I'd rather not use them unless there is no other solution.

You can still use some incandescent with the OCD I believe. You just can't use many. There are only a few blinker bulbs in each machine so I would think those are fine. herg would definitely know for sure though obviously.

Once I get around to putting LEDs in my TZ i'm probably going to still use the normal 545 bulbs in it. We'll see.

Quoted from pinball_ric:
You can still use some incandescent with the OCD I believe. You just can't use many. There are only a few blinker bulbs in each machine so I would think those are fine. herg would definitely know for sure though obviously.
Once I get around to putting LEDs in my TZ i'm probably going to still use the normal 545 bulbs in it. We'll see.

Yeah, the GI OCD will work fine with #545 blinker bulbs in there. That's what I've been doing for the last year or so.

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