Hi Guys
I found a good site for cheap LEDS....CoinTaker.com
They have some really cool leds.....
Has anyone here bought from them yet?
Thanks

Yup!   They are good - they showed up to the Niagara show, too with some great deals!

Yeah, a few of us have bought a bunch from them and they are great to deal with and for the price the product is good.

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Doug
Did you try the pop bumper or special high power ones?

I'll let rocket-man answer... (i've just toyed with them - they didn't work for the one application i wanted - which was to make an old-wedgehead's special light more visible from under a kick-out hole)...

They are pretty good but for bigger inserts, I stick with Ablaze LED's.  For flashers and smaller inserts, cointaker is just fine.

I spent almost $400 US with them between Niagara Falls and online. They are great...and they are nice people as well!

The high power ones are necessary for larger inserts for sure. Otherwise for smaller inserts and GI just frosted wide angle. If you dont want a cold look, use the warm white for you GI playfield illumination. I like the cold look for DR Who and Getaway. On HSII it kinda reminds me of xenon HD headlights with a slightly bluish tint.

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Doug
Did you try the pop bumper or special high power ones?

I haven't personally tried the Cointaker stuff yet but a number of my friends have, and the LED's look good.  (I've only purchased LED's from BC's so far)  Pop's should be standard 555's, just get the wide angle in the colour of the cap and it should be fine.

I will say that if you plan on changing your GI over to LED, it's gonna be a personal preference.  I converted my whole CV over (insert / GI) and I'm not a fan of the GI.  It's not the light it emits as I like the colour, but because it's LED it flickers and causes a strobe type effect when the ball is moving around the PF.  Makes it harder to track the ball.

I did all the inserts on my TOTAN and left the GI incandescent and so far I'm liking it.

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Same here, colored incandescent bulbs were used for GI.  For pop bumpers, I used cointaker's high powered stuff.  We'll see how the fit goes.  Typically in the past, I have used BCS's matrix bulbs for pop bumpers.

The flickering effect usually happens when you have lights that sometimes dim, as in Party Zone. Since the translight and some GI lights are supposed to dim in certain modes, I stuck with incandescent for those.

I have no idea how cointaker LED's react to dimming.  I know BCS LED's take that into account with their LED design so it doesn't flicker but some people with sensitve eyes will see them anyways no matter what.

Having taken apart both BCS and Cointaker LED's for my projects, I gotta say there's a HUGE difference in build quality of the two.  The BCS led's come apart nice and easy, but the Cointaker LED's literally crumble apart in your hand if you're not careful.  Now obviously you're not really supposed to do this anyway, so this is just an observation.  I can't see the Cointaker LED's handling too much vibration in the long term.  Since they're so cheap, take one apart and you'll see what I mean.  For general use though, I'd say they're fine.. and the warm white looks great!

Also as a FYI, I noticed that Cointaker charges the same shipping, whether you're ordering 5 or 50 LED's.. so keep that in mind when ordering.

Anyway it looks like the Cointakers use a diode and a resistor in their assembly, where as the BCS's actually have a little circuit board built in with two resistors.   Not sure what the difference would be functionally though.