As a newbie I don't have a stock of the various cool/warm white bulbs to see which look best, do any of the LED suppliers offer sample packs for just the cost of postage?
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LED Sample Kit?
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Hi
We do offer a free non quibble exchange or refund if you don't like the colours you ordered even if it's your fault.
Or you can phone me for a friendly chat and make some suggestions.
Regards David
We do offer a free non quibble exchange or refund if you don't like the colours you ordered even if it's your fault.
Or you can phone me for a friendly chat and make some suggestions.
Regards David
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Cheers alchy, I'll wait until I get the machine tomorrow and see whats what 
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HS2 on loan
I have green under most of the plastics on mine and cool white under slings and outlanes. I did try other colours where I fitted the white but it was too dark and hard to see the ball on the lower playfield.HS2 on loan
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I was actually thinking more about the backbox initially, to keep things cool in there and reduce the load on the GI a little.
In a video on TNT Amusements they have 13 red (Logo), 15 cool white, 2 warm white (headlights) and 5 strobe flashers.
Are they all #555 wedge type?
In a video on TNT Amusements they have 13 red (Logo), 15 cool white, 2 warm white (headlights) and 5 strobe flashers.
Are they all #555 wedge type?
I'm having a bit of a break at the moment, however all the major suppliers have kindly supplied me with samples, and I'm looking to get a comparison/review done in around a month or so
Yes Carl the back box are all 555s. I've played around with mine and went back to standard lamps except for behind headlights where I have cool white. I just can't get on with leds in the backbox, they're just too spotty to me.
I do have some strobe flashers behind the police lights though, they look great.
Good job you've got it on loan. Sounds well expensive from what the BBC keep saying.HS2 on loan
Poor old Wez. I wonder what's happened to him these days?
Yahoo group isn't the same without his 15 messages a day about his latest FT plans:
for sale/bought back/blinged up with LEDs/up for sale again/gonna keep it/make me an offer/selling on eBay definitely not gonna pull it/pulled it/on eBay again/pulled it again/sold to con artist/bought back NEVER selling/sold for magic beans/bought back/selling on eBay/what's it worth/no I won't pull it/pulled at last minute again/where's my antipsychotic medicine/what you lookin at mate/get down to Yates/sorted for Es and whizz/gobbledygook/I bought an XFiles/I love it/who wants to buy my XFiles it's a turd/anyone got a FT for sale/etc
Yahoo group isn't the same without his 15 messages a day about his latest FT plans:
for sale/bought back/blinged up with LEDs/up for sale again/gonna keep it/make me an offer/selling on eBay definitely not gonna pull it/pulled it/on eBay again/pulled it again/sold to con artist/bought back NEVER selling/sold for magic beans/bought back/selling on eBay/what's it worth/no I won't pull it/pulled at last minute again/where's my antipsychotic medicine/what you lookin at mate/get down to Yates/sorted for Es and whizz/gobbledygook/I bought an XFiles/I love it/who wants to buy my XFiles it's a turd/anyone got a FT for sale/etc
Prob still trying to sell no fear and x files lol I'm sure he's autistic or summut
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Here we are, I've put red flashers right and left on the helis and two blue and a red where chasing police cars are, used cool white LEDs on headlights and edge of highway, rest are warm white.
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I love the game but never liked the translite . Looks like the cassette cover art from a 1983 ZX Spectrum game
And what's wrong with that?
I love leds and want them everywhere but everytime I put them behind a translite I think they are too visible, too spotty like the ones lining both sides of the road in yout photo. I always end up taking them back out.
You want the diffused/frosted type of LEDs for in the backbox, it helps to disperse the light and minimise the spotty effect. Going for warm whites instead of cool also helps
You want the diffused/frosted type of LEDs for in the backbox, it helps to disperse the light and minimise the spotty effect. Going for warm whites instead of cool also helps
Tried 'em all. Even warm white frosted are visible in the positions seen in Carls photo.
I love the game but never liked the translite . Looks like the cassette cover art from a 1983 ZX Spectrum game
Surely that just makes it more awesome??
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Camera makes this more obvious than it is, I'm using frosted ones from pinball-led and its a nice soft light.
I guess it's personal taste, I've tried exactly those LEDs and I can't unsee them. Even those are still brighter/spottier than 555 incandescents.
Don't know about Wez but RudeDogg1 could be the new Wez in disguise, in a fashion, as looks like he is trying to trade his Shadow for anything or everything!!!
Lol nah not atall I just miss fixing em up I I don't even want rid yet. If I see something nice come up I just like to try my luck see if anyone wants to trade. BTW I've had the shadow since March not like wez who sells days later just for the record :0p
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Took a video of the coloured flashers. I think it looks pretty sharp...
Looks good
They remind me of my machine when I kitted it out. HS2 is so much fun may get another soon.
Enjoy the leds
Enjoy the leds
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