{"id":737,"date":"2010-02-12T20:58:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:34","slug":"ablaze-leds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Ablaze LEDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was following a thread on RGP and came across some new LEDs which were meant to be better and cheaper than other LED solutions for pinball machines from <a title=\"Pinball Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinballlife.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pinball Life<\/a>. I&#8217;ve always had a desire to use LEDs for the pop bumpers and one of the #555 wedge base lamps equivalent was available with a frosted\u00a0lense and flat head. This, I thought, would be ideal for the pop bumpers:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_739\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/abl_wedge_frosted1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-739\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-739\" title=\"abl_wedge_frosted\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/abl_wedge_frosted1-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/abl_wedge_frosted1-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/abl_wedge_frosted1.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ablaze 1-LED #555 Wedge Base Lamp With Frosted Lens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even though the LEDs only cost 39 US cents each, shipping them from the US to Germany would have cost $28. So an alternative solution needed to be found.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately on RGP I found a fellow pin-head who was ordering from Pinball Life anyway and he ordered my Ablaze LEDs for me and then shipped them to me for a measly 2.20 Euros. A lot better!<\/p>\n<p>So I tried them out today and they looked great:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_740\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-740\" title=\"IMG_1751\" src=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1751-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1751-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1751.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ablaze LEDs blazing away in the pop bumpers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was following a thread on RGP and came across some new LEDs which were meant to be better and cheaper than other LED solutions for pinball machines from Pinball Life. I&#8217;ve always had a desire to use LEDs for the pop bumpers and one of the #555 wedge base lamps equivalent was available with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}