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Topic: Help Installing Qty 4 - Xenex L-1600's,Kelmar Series IV's, Sound Systems and Platters
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Monte L Fullmer
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Posts: 8367
From: Nampa, Idaho, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 11-11-2011 01:00 PM
Those units never had their dousers connected since there were no automations to connect them up. That 5plex ran total manual - projector, lamphouse and houselights were all manually controlled. You close the lamphouse damper before you struck the bulb, fired off the projector, slide the dimmer on the houselight switch down for the houselight, opened up the damper and hit a button the wall to kick in the sound.
The entire unit depended on the microswitch on the bottom of the "trombone" of the platters - that was the failsafe switch for both projector and platter. The microswitch operated a contacter that was mounted on the wall that would controll both lamphouse and projector's 120vac feed. Bottom roller on the "trombone" would drop, opened the contacter which would shut off the lamphouse, platter and projector...To thread up, you had to "jimmy" the bottom roller up a bit to close the microswich to allow the contactor to close to get voltage to all three units.
Definitely a "tinker-toy" install.
Those were ran douser open at all times.
Who ever put those in at the 5plex about 5yrs ago, did a "band-aid and bubble gum" install.
I've known that location since 1991 when it was built. On the opening the had CFS-2000 consoles with Monees on the front with "stupid platters". Then the owner got smart, dumped the Monees for PR-1050's...then change of ownership (heard it was bankruptcy) and out went the booth. New people came in and put in that antique stuff and that's what your facing now.
Good luck with it ... holler for more help and PM if needed.
thx-Monte
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