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Author Topic: Christie lamphouse trouble Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-04-2001 07:44 PM                     I just replaced a Chinese 'Cine-Lite' 2000W bulb with a new Osram bulb into a Christie H20 lamphouse with CFS power supply, and now where the igniter used to strike, albeit with some futility trying to light that Chinese junker, refuses to autostrike at all now with the Osram. Voltages are OK, and the bulb manual strikes right up and runs at current. Any ideas as to why it will not autostrike now? As mentioned above, in the past it has autostruck Osram, ORC and the Chinese bulbs just fineuntil the latter began to age and then would take longer to strike until after several unsuccesful tries the autostrike quit running and it had to be manually struck, after a period of time (read: next show in that house) it would try the autostrike again and again, etc... Any assistance would be appreciated. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-04-2001 08:54 PM                     Check the amprite timer and the zenier  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-04-2001 09:28 PM                     Yes, that old Amperite time delay relay (inside the igniter) is prone to failure.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-19-2004 03:40 AM                        quote: Yes, that old Amperite time delay relay (inside the igniter) is prone to failure. What's the part number & a source for the Amperite time delay relay? This one's hosed, filament broken, arced inside the tube, & ground wire from the igniter chassis to the terminal strip is vaporized.  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-19-2004 09:46 AM                     Antique Electronics (www.tubesandmore.com) in Tempe, Arizona has them. Get the numbers off the old time delay (it looks just like a vacuum tube). Edit: Amperite # 50C10T 50 volt heater Normally Closed contacts (rated at 3 amps) 10 second delay 9 pin miniture base (looks like a 12AX7 tube) Pins 1 and 6 are heater Pins 3 and 4 are contact #1 pins 8 and 9 are contact #2  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-22-2004 01:45 AM                        Thanks, Ken. This one had heat shrink tubing over it, & when removed only 'Amperite' could barely be made out cooked off the tube & transferred in reverse to the inside of the heat shrink.  |  IP: Logged

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