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Author Topic: What bulb is used in elmo CX-550? Joop de Gruiter Film Handler Posts: 33 From: Lund, Sweden Registered: Jul 99 posted 09-02-2004 04:48 AM                     I wonder what bulb is used in the 16mm Elmo projector CX-550. I know that it is a horizontal xenon bulb. But I need to know more exact specifications to order a new one. Guessing it's 550w. Are there several brands that make this bulb? If anyone knows where I can find the manual that would be great too. Thanks for any help! Joop.  |  IP: Logged Hugh McCullough Expert Film Handler Posts: 147 From: Old Coulsdon, Surrey, UK Registered: Jan 2003 posted 09-02-2004 06:09 AM                        The xenon bulb is indeed a 550w. A manual can be purchased from www.efilmcenter.com  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-02-2004 07:35 AM                     The xenon lamp for an ELMO CX-550 is indeed a 550-watt lamp. It is ELMO code #1374. The model of the lamp is XE-550A. Elmo dealers can obtain the lamp for you with a list price of $525.00 though street price is often less. Steve  |  IP: Logged Joop de Gruiter Film Handler Posts: 33 From: Lund, Sweden Registered: Jul 99 posted 09-02-2004 05:14 PM                     Thanks, very helpful information. So this is a bulb only made by Elmo or do Osram and other lamp manufacturers make this model too? Joop.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-02-2004 07:27 PM                     Elmo does not manufacture xenon lamps. They normally source them from Japan though. Many of their lamps, though not necessarily the one for the CX-550, come from Ushio and Toshiba. Which lamp manufacturer has the "XE" prefix to their lamps? I'm pretty sure OSRAM does not make the lamp. Steve  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-02-2004 08:51 PM                     Originally the Elmo lamps were from Toshiba  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 09-02-2004 08:59 PM                        Not sure who makes it, but Xe is the symbol for the element Xenon.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-02-2004 09:02 PM                     Wacom Electric (a Japanese company not related to the well-known maker of digitizing tablets) also makes xenon lamps for Elmo. Their lamps generally use the "KXL-" prefix (for example, the lamp for the Elmo XP-750 is a KXL-752HF).  |  IP: Logged Joop de Gruiter Film Handler Posts: 33 From: Lund, Sweden Registered: Jul 99 posted 09-08-2004 11:43 AM                     Ok, now I've found a KXL-550HF bulb. Can someone verify that this bulb can be used with the Elmo CX-550 16mm projector? The seller says it does and I want to believe him but when I search the net I only find relations with slide projectors... Joop.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-08-2004 04:50 PM                     I'm not near my ELMO books but I'm pretty sure that lamp is only used with their 550-watt xenon slide projector. I know that the CX-550 and the slide projector do indeed have different lamps (different part number for Elmo too). Steve  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-08-2004 07:10 PM                     Yes, the KXL-550HF is indeed a lamp for an Elmo xenon slide projector (the Omnigraphic 550AF Xenon, to be exact). I bought one of those lamps on the cheap through eBay with a shred of hope it might work with my 550-watt Eiki xenon 16mm, but it did not work. Omnigraphic 550AF Xenons do occasionally pop up on eBay so I'd imagine there's someone out there in need of a KXL-550HF.  |  IP: Logged

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