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Author Topic: My Lamphouse Dilemma Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 06-16-2003 07:16 PM                     O.K. folks....here's the deal. I pulled my two Devrys out and replaced them with a pair of XL's over 1020's. In my condo "small" booth I need something thats quiet, and doesn't put out heat like a blow torch!! I've got access to a pair of ORC 1600's with external supplies but the blower sounds like a vacuum cleaner. I'm limited to 115V (50 amp) so who's got suggestions? I really hate to use the intergrated 1000w ORC cause they seem to malfunction too often. Are there any halogen type lamps I could hang on the rear. The throw is only 12 feet so I don't need the "sun" behind these XL's. HELP!!!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-16-2003 07:54 PM                     Don, You may not need the sun, or a Jetarc either, but you do need is the correct color temperature and at least decent light for the best projected image. Without that your films will probably look dull and flat. That points to Xenon for you..... The ORC 1000's are really not such a bad lamphouse if rebuilt with modern semiconductors. They are however a very misunderstood lamphouse. I had 4 model 1000's that I used for location dailies work for years before selling them off one by one, for more than I paid for them . I rebuilt all of them before they ever left the shop the first time....and not one of them so much as hicckupped. In fact, the only problem I encountered down the line was one that needed a new reflector....thats it. They were shipped around, dropped in shipment, broken apart, but they always functioned. On one location film shoot in Memphis The LArry Flint film...... one of them was damaged in shipment by Fed-Ex. It was literally held in place on the projector base with duct tape to make it through the show!! Steve Kraus can verify this! With the limited current you have the 1000's are probably the best route for you to go. There were other snallish xenon lamps at one time but most of them ahve gone into obscurity and parts are literally non-existant. The only other way, and what I ahve setup at home is a Super Lum-Ex with a 700 lamp and a single phase Irem rectifier. That works well too, but is a bit more complicated and expensive than a pair of 1000's. Mark @ CLACO CLACO Equipment And Service Salt Lake City, Utah 801-355-1250  |  IP: Logged Fred Georges Master Film Handler Posts: 257 From: Lombard, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2000 posted 06-16-2003 08:39 PM                     Dear Don, I concurr. The ORC 1000's are amazingly resiliant. I have 8 of them and with minor service they just keep on going. A few of the board components are scarce but not impossible to find. For your use IMHO the ORC 1000 is DA BOMB!  |  IP: Logged

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