Recently bought Panthera, Gottlieb System 80, pin from Sylvain and was wondering if I can swap the bulbs, PF and BG, with LED bulbs without adding any mods or anything like I had to with my old Stern Magic game. Would love to brighten the game up and mess with the colors a bit.
Thanks in advance
Gottlieb System 80 LED bulbs????
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Re: Gottlieb System 80 LED bulbs????
I have never tried LED bulbs in a Gottlieb System 1 or System 80 pinball, however I expect
they should work without mods, for both GI and controlled lamps, without flickering or ghosting.
Reason: GI uses the usual 6.3VAC power feed as other games, and controlled lamps are driven by
Darlington transistors on the Driver board, instead of SCRs used on early SS Bally & Stern machines.
...I am sure someone will chime-in with actual experience/results !
Make sure you select quality LEDs - I have fixed machines of people who used cheapo LEDs
that were intermittent, shorted and took a drive transistor with it, or fell apart.
Good luck!
they should work without mods, for both GI and controlled lamps, without flickering or ghosting.
Reason: GI uses the usual 6.3VAC power feed as other games, and controlled lamps are driven by
Darlington transistors on the Driver board, instead of SCRs used on early SS Bally & Stern machines.
...I am sure someone will chime-in with actual experience/results !
Make sure you select quality LEDs - I have fixed machines of people who used cheapo LEDs
that were intermittent, shorted and took a drive transistor with it, or fell apart.
Good luck!
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Re: Gottlieb System 80 LED bulbs????
I've used them on sys 1 and 80 with no issues
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Re: Gottlieb System 80 LED bulbs????
Just did my black hole. Full LED. no issues. Great buy on that Pantera BTW.
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Re: Gottlieb System 80 LED bulbs????
Update on my Panthera LED upgrade
PF almost all done. Not sure if I will do the BG or not
PF almost all done. Not sure if I will do the BG or not
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Re: Gottlieb System 80 LED bulbs????
...so it's not BLACK hole anymore is it?
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Re: Gottlieb System 80 LED bulbs????
Wow! That’s looks great!
Those made an Old game look New!
Are they frosted?
Cool brite or Super brite LEDs?
It’s now time for me to ditch the incandescents.
Those made an Old game look New!
Are they frosted?
Cool brite or Super brite LEDs?
It’s now time for me to ditch the incandescents.
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Re: Gottlieb System 80 LED bulbs????
Oh...it's still very much Black Hole...as the playfield only has about 15 GI. I should add more!
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