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spoot:
LEDS can be good when done tastefully in older machines.  I swapped 44's with frosted dome leds for backglass/etc and it looks nice.  However, I also swapped the lamp driver board to negate the "flicker" pbj mentions.

ChadTower:

OTOH... you can do some fairly nifty 'upgrades'.  I recently picked up a nonworking Defender.  Defender uses a bulb length that isn't available anymore.  The light transformer was bad (blowing tubes instantly) so I ended up pulling the whole light panel out.  I got one of these LED strips from Amazon.  Cut it to length to run around the perimeter of the marquee box about 4" back, used a random 12v wall wart connected to the original transformer's power connector (117v), and ended up with this.  It took maybe 20 minutes once I had the parts in hand.

Silverball84:
Some interesting feedback. I like the idea of them being applied to GI in the difficult areas. Also faded inserts...another good point. Color changer in a big feature lamp even sounds like a neat mod. Thanks for the input.

Xiaou2:

--- Quote from: ebarlow99 on June 09, 2014, 09:48:33 am ---love them!!



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 This IMO, is exactly what NOT to do.

 All the colors of the artwork are downed out by the Eye-Surgery "Laser-Blue".

 As for the BackGlass LEDs... Ive also seen this done.  It ruined the artwork.. by creating very harsh Hot-Spots.
As said, LEDs just do not spread the light out well enough.

 At best, you can put low intensity leds in spots where there was no light before... such as making a toy traffic light glow...

spoot:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on June 13, 2014, 12:23:31 pm --- As for the BackGlass LEDs... Ive also seen this done.  It ruined the artwork.. by creating very harsh Hot-Spots.
As said, LEDs just do not spread the light out well enough.

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Use different leds.  You make it sound like the zillion types of leds all display the same.

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