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Aussie Pinball Forums => Technical Matters => Equipment => Topic started by: skywalker on August 07, 2013, 07:32:55 PM

Title: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: skywalker on August 07, 2013, 07:32:55 PM

With most of us using led's & so many different brands/types/colours etc etc, would be good to compare globes & led's on some sort of test bench, Any of you Guro's knock one up, test them for many reasons before fitting them in there places, some spots are a pain to get to blah blah.  !@#

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: ddstoys on August 07, 2013, 07:39:56 PM

I made one up its very basic.  Ill take a photo if I ever make it home

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: pinball god on August 07, 2013, 09:07:24 PM

Quote from: ddstoys on August 07, 2013, 07:39:56 PM

I made one up its very basic.  Ill take a photo if I ever make it home

traffic bad tonight mate? My wife took over 2 hours to get from box hill

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: ddstoys on August 07, 2013, 09:21:11 PM

Yep 3 hours from south Melbourne to Geelong grrrrr.

    I'm stuffed send me a reminder tomorrow night and ill duck out and take a photo.

  What I've done is got a 4xaa battery pack from jaycar and in the handle of a plastic tub mounted a 44, 555 & 89 globe socket and wired them all to the battery pack.  The tub has three compartments I keep one with 44s one with 555s and flashers in the other one.  Grab a globe sit it in the socket if it works it goes into the game.

  It's amazing how many new globes are stuffed from the packet and nothing worse than finishing a game to find a dud globe under a ramp etc

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: skywalker on August 07, 2013, 09:48:24 PM

you got me thinking now  ^^^

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: wiredoug on August 07, 2013, 11:22:53 PM

yep get one of each socket from 'your preferred supplier' and make one

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: elkor-alish on August 08, 2013, 01:27:12 AM

Have a look here for something I made a little while ago.

http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=9853.msg127893#msg127893 (http://aussiepinball.com/index.php?topic=9853.msg127893#msg127893)

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: skywalker on August 08, 2013, 08:40:40 AM

Nice work, thanks for the link  ^^^

Title: Re: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: ddstoys on August 08, 2013, 10:50:35 PM

Here is my dodgy little globe tester(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/08/08/u3ebydy4.jpg)

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: elkor-alish on August 09, 2013, 02:58:12 AM

That's quite clever, holder and tester in one.   ^^^

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: pinball god on August 09, 2013, 11:32:13 PM

Bugger can't seem to see the picture

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: skywalker on August 10, 2013, 12:16:36 AM

Was there, gone MIA  #@#

Title: Re: Test bench for globes & LED's
Post by: ddstoys on August 10, 2013, 12:30:57 AM

I'm having trouble with that tapatalk thing