Unfortunately, most of the DMD pins, regardless of the mfg, will require the HV version of my XP-DMD4096 DMD displays. A good rule of thumb is if the game has an original High Voltage plasma display, you will need my HV DMD display. Having said that, only the later Stern games that were released with LED displays would use my LV version.

Here is the reason:

I have yet to find any games from the era of the plasma DMDs that have a strong enough 5V system to support the needed 5-10Watts for an LED DMD. WPC is the worst culprit. It has been well documented over the years how the 5V power supply in the WPC games is at it's limits already and most of the original power driver boards have had multiple rebuilds on them. The designs of the other mfgs are about the same.

I opted, in order to be plug'n'play, that I would utilize the +65V supply and buck it down to +5V as efficiently as possible. Maintaining the high efficiency of the conversion, I can get the 5V power needed without taxing the 5V system.

Another rule of thumb is that Red, Orange, Amber, and Green require less power to operate than Blue and White in my DMD's. There is nothing I can do about this because it is all about chemistry and what it takes to get those colors.

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orange is Orange, and the Amber is like the Original Plasma Color

You hit it on the head!

Most seem to go for it because of price. Amber specific blocks are slightly more expensive.

You don't believe me?

Thanks for posting this, I had wondered the same thing. I have a Tron LE and it has HV Plasma, was going to get a LV LED display glad I didn't.

When you look at the data sheet for the Vishay HV Plasma display, the optical wavelength for the color is 632 nano meters. The amber blocks I purchase are spec'd at 630 nm. Keep in mind that this would be considered NEW plasma display.

Using a BTS256 meter I did conduct some measurements on an older Vishay, the mfg date showed 1997. It measured at ~620nm which is more towards the Orange at 610nm. My orange LED blocks are spec'd at 612nm.

The point to be made is that it comes down to being what you like. Orange is more yellow where Amber is more red. My selection of the Amber block is based on the Vishay datasheet, but overtime the color will drift apparently going more towards an orange. This is the reason that I offer both.

For reference, the Babcock datasheets list their color as 628nm.

It is a tough call. With the current age of games out there, you have a large variation of what "PLASMA ORANGE" looks like. I had to start somewhere and that was the original data sheets.

I have had customers buy the Orange and when placed next to games with newer plasmas, they change to Amber, and then some collections with older plasmas they went for orange because it looked more like the plasmas they had.

Personally, I am not that picky because I would probably look at the bling of putting in a color like Red, Green, or Blue, with a real possibility of White with gels because I want the pizazz!