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The original plan was to connect a 1000 watt 230 volt stroboscope at the strobe output from the LedWiz. However, the large strobo had to be installed outside of the pinball cab and the flipper would have looked very ugly. So instead I've decided to attach a few high power LED stripes at the bottom of the case and the back of the backbox. These are very bright and they'll get the sufficient attention at multiball and Co. ;)

Since the LedWiz can not supply the LEDs directly, I've tinkered a small driver board with an inverter and a power MOSFET to which the LED strips are connected. The MOSFET, a IRLIZ44N with a small heatsink doesn't become warm even in continuous operation.

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High Power LED driver on a test board
High Power LED driver on a test board
selfmade LED driver on a stripboard
selfmade LED driver on a stripboard
High Power LED stripe on circuit board in action
High Power LED stripe on circuit board in action