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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 08-17-2002 03:08 AM

CARBON:

I have worked with and I Like:

Peerless Magnarc
Brenkert Enarc N
Strong Futura II

XENON:

I have worked with and I like:

Strong Super Lumex
Strong Super-80
Strong Highlight Console
Strong X-60B
Kniesley Xenex
XeTron XH-series

I have seen and would probably like:

Christie SLC Console
Strong X-90 Console
Strong Super Highlight Console
Kniesley Xenex II
Kniesley Xenex Console
Neumade (Xetron) XCN Console

I have worked with and totally DESPISE:

CFS SX/LSX Console
ORC Console
Christie CK-series console
Christie CH-series
XeTron XHC-35 console*
Strong X-16 (Magnarc conversion with vertical bulb)
L.P. & Associates Xelamp

*The optics are the same as the XH-series lamphouses (good). It's the power supply I hate about these, the worst IREM power supplies ever made, IMO.

-Aaron

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 08-17-2002 04:36 AM

Eprad made a lamphouse, too. It was a dinky and dorky one. You didn't mention it! It had a real dainty hand douser knob you could operate with two fingers because that was all the bigger it was.

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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-17-2002 07:27 AM

Carbon:

I have worked with and I like:

Peerless Magnarc

I have not worked with, but think I would like:

Enarc
Ashcraft

Xenon:

I have worked with and I like:

Super Lume-X
Strong Highlight II console
Cinemeccanica "Zenith X4000H"
Cinemeccanica console (whatever model they were making in the early-mid '90s)

I have not worked with but think I would like:

Christie SLC
Kinoton

I have worked with and don't like:

Christie K20
Christie CH-series console

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 08-17-2002 07:51 AM

I love:
Christie SLC

I like:
Strong (forget model number... the same ones we had at Greenwood... help me out here, Ian.)
Xetron

I do not have an enjoyable time with:
ORC
CFS
Anything with a vertical bulb

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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-17-2002 09:43 AM

Carbon I like (not in order)
Peerless Magnarc
Peerless Hycandescent
FuturaII
Ashcraft C70

Carbon I hate
Ashcraft E
Strong Mogul

Xenon I like
Super Lumex
LP Associates
Cinemecanica Zenieth ****H (serveral models)
Xebex Supersol N
Xebex HiBeam
Eprad Universal (Paul that isn't the little one with the backward lamp)
Zeiss Xenosols (almost all of them)
Ernamann
Kinoton

Xenon I dislike

Xenex I
ORC
Xetron
Prevost
Eprad Star (the little blue one with the ass backwards lamp)

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Adam Martin
I'm not even gonna point out the irony.

Posts: 3686
From: Dallas, TX
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 08-17-2002 10:16 AM

XENON

I have worked with and I like:

Christie SLC
Strong Super LumeX
Kneisley Xenex II

I have worked with and I don't like:

Cinemeccanica 7040 (Let's see how many metal covers we can make them take off to replace the lamp!)

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Darryl Spicer
Film God

Posts: 3250
From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 08-17-2002 12:02 PM

Xenon I like
Kneisley Xenex II: glass reflector, if both sides kept clean very bright picture can be maintained.
Strong super lumeX 2. Easy to work with and tap settings on rectifier is a breeze. Down side is if the blower on the rectifiers is not strong enough and heat builds up diodes blow easy and can be a bear to change.

Xenon I dislike. Strong Super lumeX. At least the one I had you had to remove the whole top of the lamphouse in order to change the bulb. Pain in the butt.

Xenon console I wish I could work with. Christie consoles not sure of model numbers.

Xenon console I unfortunatly have to work with. CFS

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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-17-2002 12:54 PM

Joe,

The Greenwood ran Strong Super Highlight II.

Consoles I have worked with and like:

Strong Super Highlight
Strong Super Highlight II
Christie SLC
Christie SL1 (noisy fan)
Strong Super Lumex
Strong X90

I don't like:

LP & Associates
ORC
CFS

I would like to try:

Kinoton

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