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Matt Basford
Film Handler

Posts: 19
From: Nashville, TN, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 03-03-2001 02:38 PM

The proper led intensity is around 4v, right?

Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 03-03-2001 03:26 PM

The "reder-than-red" burst should be 4Vp-p for optimum tracking but as low as 2.7Vp-p can still work well enough (just not ecouraged). I find anytime you dip below 3V things are getting dicey.

Steve

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Matt Basford
Film Handler

Posts: 19
From: Nashville, TN, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 03-03-2001 10:06 PM

I have one that's at about 2.3 and the pot is at max

Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 03-04-2001 12:44 AM

Time for a new LED.

You can buy the whole bracket/LED assembly or just the LED itself. Although the LED only option is much cheaper you might as well get the whole bracket. It's a lot less trouble.

Done properly, you can change out the thing in about 15 minutes or so. If you went the cheaper LED only route you'd have to take the time to diassemble the thing, line it up correctly and reassemble it. (Don't forget heat sink compound!)

No matter which route you take it's a pretty routine job.

Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 03-04-2001 12:45 AM

I'd suspect that you aren't getting good digital tracking and the "found on the first pass" leds are flickering up a storm.

It it time for a new LED for your reader.

BTW, the voltage levels are not the same for the Cat. 700 reader with the EPT lamp (or the Cat. 699 for that matter)...the incandescent lamps have a much wider range than the LED version...they run lower and still track and they optimize at about 4.5Vp-p rather than 4. They are also cheaper to run and anybody can replace the lamp.

Steve

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