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PHA is the military starting to use LED flashlights.   I pciked up a few from 4sevens.ca - and wow very bright AA/AAA lights - amazing with the high-current CREE LED's.

normal bulb Mag lights are still issued. However, many people do a LED conversion to them on there own dime.

A lot of the infantry dudes use SureFire lights, there BRIGHT

http://www.surefire.com/


I was issued a 1W LED helmet lamp and I use it when working around the house all the time. It is SUPER bright and takes a LONG time to kill it's 3 AAA batts

Somewhat off topic but I replaced my Pole Position marquee light with a LED marquee light and the coin door lights with LEDS. Definitely made a difference on the coin doors and as the marquee you can't tell the difference. I would love to pimp out my ST:25th with LEDS.

I got my order from cointaker.  My impression of them after having done LED's quite a bit from other vendors is that they're cheaper for a reason.  They aren't bright enough to light an insert anything bigger than a nickel size.  The inverted lens they have will barely light anything.  The yellows are extremely weak.  It has its place though.  There are plenty of small inserts where spending 60 cents a bulb is sufficient than buying a $1 version.  The 89's and some of the high powered bulbs are better.  All in all, it has its uses but it doesn't cover all the usage scenarios.
bcspinball still has the best LED support for pinball, IMO.

Sam

Just receive my order today, I was little worry after the pinsrfun comment, but that was my first experience with LED and I am more then happy with it, make a huge difference in the green, the blue and the white. For me I have nothing to compared and I like it a lot.

Gino

Here's what Space Station looks like with LED's for the green GI string, the blue lane guides under the upper playfield and the yellow in the lane guides on top of the upper playfield. Normally, all of these lamps use coloured bulb condoms and they're not nearly bright enough. These LED's are the super bright 3-LED style from PBL. And let me tell ya, this game pops big time with these lamps installed.

Let me clarify a bit more.  Yeah, they're not as bright as BCS or pinball life bulbs.  The inverted lens is crappy if the socket is parallel to the pf.  However, they do a nice job in a perpendicular socket and do give a nice effect.  Yellows are still too weak but that is expected.  Would I buy from cointaker again?  Yes.  At that price, it's a good deal and will work in quite a few spots in quite a few games.  I'm thinking Sys 11 where most of the inserts aren't overly big.  WPC pins like IJ wouldn't be ideal for cointaker LEDs.  There's too many larger sized inserts with composite colors on them.  

Here's a quick breakdown on the different vendors:

Pinball life: brightest regular bulbs ($1.50US each)
BCS:  best selection to suit every situation and color range, not as bright as pinball life but still nice ($1 - $4US each)
Cointaker: Basic bulbs, lowest light intensity of the three but cheap  ($.60US per bulb)