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Art by PYTHON ANGHELO who worked on alot of popular pins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Anghelo

 

[Kolchak357]

Art by PYTHON ANGHELO who worked on alot of popular pins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Anghelo

Thanks for the link. I've heard of him, but didn't realize how much influence he has had on my pinball experiences. He is responsible for the art work on many of my favorite tables (especially Cyclone!). I guess it is no surprise that I find the art on Big Guns so appealing.

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

I know I didnt know who he was either until somebody said "Oh PYTHON ANGHELO TABLE" then I looked him up exactly...he's been apart of alot of games I love and....PINBALL CIRCUS!

 

[Kevlar]

If you are really interested in pinball designers, artists, sound guys etc go download and listen to the topcast podcasts, I've just finished listening to all 65 of them!. There's a Python interview in there, he's one strange dude, number 42.

http://www.pinrepair.com/topcast/past.php

 

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Got my LIGHTS today! and I sent out my wrong sockets during the most busy mail shipping day of the year, oops!

20 WARM WHITE star post lights

10x Warm white 2LED premiums going to mess with the GI some more
7x RED super bright FLEX I orderd 4 for the 2 flipper buttons and 2 ball lock saucers but somehow it got changed to 7
4 RGB quick color change, the cycle through RED,GREEN,BLUE just for fun but expensive

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

I need to get a couple spools of wire, probably 22 gauge tinned stranded

 

[Kevlar]

Can't wait to see the star posts in place. Thought about doing the flipper buttons myself, may get around to it one day. I haven't seen the lit star posts for sale here.

 

[Kevlar]

Did the star post LEDs come with star posts or do you have to notch the bottom of your star posts yourself ? ( for the wire to come out ).

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

The star post go over the round part and the tab the wire solder to sticks out.I'll post a picture later.

 

[Kevlar]

The star post go over the round part and the tab the wire solder to sticks out.I'll post a picture later.

Oh, the ones I looked at had a little notch cut in the bottom of the starpost to let the wire out. where did you get yours from? should be cheaper if you can use your own starposts, the ones I looked at are mega pricey.

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

OK hers pics.
TOP VIEW

SIDE VIEW

as you can see the tab sticks out a bit and would be turned away from the field of play. Under the slingshots they would face the GI light and thats where the wire come from but after looking at the tolerances this morning it seems LED lights are a little wider and Im going to need really thin wires.

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

those are only 2 LED mine are 4 LED

This picture below is from the website and not the color I picked. I just wanted to show you an example of it lit up.

 

[Kevlar]

Looks great, can these ones be wired as flashers like some can?

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

Yes GI or flash! and the slingshots do just that they are GI until the get hit then flash.Look at the paper they are stapled to it kinda covers up continuous GI lighting.

 

[Kevlar]

How do you wire them for GI plus flash? I only see 2 connection points, wouldn't you need 3 to do both?

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

Its one or the other GI or flash, but maybe if you ran a positive and negative to a flash also it might do both oh wait if you do that it will flash the GI lights too and that might not be good to send 12 volt through a line not made for it hmmm google time. I just tested 1 out on differnt lights on my table GI is steady but kinda dim blinking lights make it flicker or pulsate as it gets bright to dim and when hooked up to a flasher WHOA! there bright and when I put a red star post over it it turned orange and when i put an orange one it turned yellow so I wonder what yellow will look like? I'll get a pic of the test. I also played with the color changers and I cant seem to find a good spot and they dont blink the same color together but if you had a backboard full of them it would look really cool, they dont like to shine through stuff very well but would look good under clear lenses.

 

[Kevlar]

A bit of searching and I found that combined GI/flash LEDs have 3 or even 4 wires so like you say it's one or the other in your case.

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

Well you can wire it to whatever bulb you want fixed GI or maybe some blinky lights or flashers or even coils,but multiple connections might be bad. Im not sure, I just read on pinside a guy who had GI and flash but his had 3 connection points.
Test pics i have it hooked up to the extra ball light during all lamp test for a reliable time to take a photo but I think they look better when the blink so I might hook them up to blinking lights instead of constant on GI or a mixture.
Warm white

The RED looks orange

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

and makes the Orange look Yellow

 

[SKILL_SHOT]

Heres a sample of the RGB quick color change 44's I only got 4 and Im not sure where I want them yet.