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| Pinball Center LED's |
Pinball Center from Germany is another strong contender in the LED market. They have a very slick website with a lot of information about their LED's, including the patent for their Noflix Plus lineup. Their lineup is extensive, though many items are listed on their website multiple times in different categories. The shining star of their lineup is the Noflix Plus LED, and they also offer some very nicely made LED maps that actually tell you what is in their kits for each machine. Essentially, everything is available in either #44 or #555 bases You can visit their website at www.pinballcenter.eu |
| Standard Noflix |
The standard noflix LED's are your basic single LED units, mostly available with a domed frosted lens. Colors are Blue, Cold White, Green, Orange, Red, Warm White, and Yellow. Plus flashers in cool and warm white. Clear flat topped lenses are also available in warm and cool white. The Noflix line is rectified, as is very clearly shown by the various short videos available on the Pinball Center website. Once their top of the line, these have been surpassed by the Noflix Plus.   |
| Noflix Plus |
Noflix Plus are the only pinball LED's that I am aware of that carry a patent. A step above the Noflix, the Noflix PLUS design adds an internal capacitor to the design, which smooths out any strobing to give a very smooth lighting effect. Like the older Noflix, they show this with videos on their website. Until the Ablaze Ghost Buster LED's came out, these were king of the hill technologically. Color choices are the same as the regular Noflix, with the addition of purple, pink, teal, truquoise, and fast and slow color changers. However, they dropped the cold white flat top.  |
| Superflux |
 Technically, the Superflux line is an extension of the Noflix and Noflix Plus. Rather than a traditional looking dome style LED, these feature a flat style Superflux LED. If my research is correct this would give a 100-120 degree light pattern, and a 20mA power draw. They also offer a remote head style superflux called the L version, but again not as cleanly done as cointaker. In fact, these look very unpolished in their finished form. The #44 style L's are only available in a single head configuration, but the #555's are available with a dual remote head setup. I only just received these, and haven't done any testing at all on them. Of interesting note is that the body features the Pinball Center logo on the side, either stamped or as a label. No other manufacturer that I have yet examined has any logo or branding of any sort to determine who made them. |
| Flashers |
| Two different styles of flasher are offered, both for #89 and #906 replacement. The Noflix Flasher is a basic 9-led flat pattern flasher available in either cold or warm white. The Superflux Block is 5 higher power LED's in a 4+1 pattern, available in the same basic color choices as the standard noflix LED's. As a #906 replacement only, there is also the Superflux Flat, which has 4 of the Superflux style chip LED's on it in a flat pattern....but facing sideways instead of straight out from the housing. A bit wierd, honestly. |