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Ablaze LED's
ABlaze unfortunately has one of the most woefully out of date websites in the pinball LED market.  It also features very little information, which is discouraging.  However, their hardware is a much different story.  Though still selling some older designs, they also have the most advanced on the market with their Ghost Buster LED.

Their lineup is broken down into four basic items, each available in an indentical color menu of White, Blue, Purple, Green, Red, Yellow, Orange.  They are also all duplicated in the #44 and #555 base styles when applicable. 

When I get more detailed information about these, I'll add it in.

You can visit Ablaze at www.ablazelighting.com
Ghost Busters



The crown jewel of the Ablaze lineup,  these are possible the most advanced LED's on the market for pinball right now.  They feature an actual circuit board with circuitry advertised to totally eliminate ghosting in pinball machines. 

1-LED

The basic starting point of the Ablaze lineup.  A fairly standard lineup of 10mm LED's with either clear or frosted cylinder lenses, or a clear concave lens.   Pictured above are a pair of the frosted flat lenses in a #44 bayonet base and #555 wedge styles along with a clear concave lens in a wedge base.

Pictured below is the guts of a wedge based flat top.  Not much too it really, just a voltage drop resistor and an additional protection diode in case it experiences too much of a reverse voltage.  Note that this is a polarized design, meaning it will exhibit some flicker and brightness loss when used in a GI lighting circuit, and this is really limited to insert use only.   I have yet to disassemble a bayonet base yet, and will update when I do.



Color identification is standard,  with colored lower housings on the wedge based bulbs, and a color coded identifier ring on the bayonet base style. 



3-LED



A bit more advanced,  these feature 3 separate LED's arranged in a flat pattern, and I can confirm that these are rectified.  They feature a nifty partially transparent housing on the #44 style housings, and you can visibly see the rectifier in there. Brighters than the 1-LED of course,  but more directional. 

Here is the guts inside a wedge based 3-LED.  This is nifty, in that it features a stacked pair of small round circuit boards.  The top board holds the LED's themselves and snaps into the housing.  The lower board has a pair of transistors that are used as the rectifier circuit.  This is impressive in how cleanly assembled it is,  much nicer looking than the boards used by Pinball Center.



Color identification is standard,  with colored lower housings on the wedge based bulbs, and a color coded identifier ring on the bayonet base style.




9-LED flashers



9 LED's arranged in a flat pattern,  similar to the 3-LED design but larger.  Available for either #89 or #906 flashers.  The #906 also has a cool transparent housing as shown above, which makes it handy to see the internal rectifier used in the design.

I've found these to be highly directional, as the design would suggest.

Color identification is standard,  with colored lower housings on the wedge based bulbs, and a color coded identifier ring on the bayonet base style.



Color Changers

Available in #44 and #555 style bases,  these cycle between different colors when turned on.  Featuers a clear domed lens.