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Author Topic: Kinoton film lamphouse laser alignment Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 03-21-2019 06:45 AM                     I have one of these but I lost the plug in power supply for it. Does anyone know what voltage power supply I need? Thanks.  |  IP: Logged Paul Finn Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Bay City, MI Registered: Jan 2019 posted 03-21-2019 11:33 AM                     Do you mean the Align-O-Tron? If so, I can look at it and its power supply and let you know tomorrow.  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 03-21-2019 11:35 AM                     Hi Paul. It's actually different than the alignotron but I just found and old post about it. It's 6VDC center pin negative. Thanks anyway.  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 03-24-2019 01:40 PM                        It's a Kinoton alignment Beamer that uses an incandescent bull in a lens barrel type device with a pin hole aperture and a green filter (not sure if they were all green and not sure if they didn't create a LES version. The one I use isn't LED) Cool trick is to leave the alignment Beamer in and insert the lamp. LEAVING THE LAMP OFF you can focus the lamp almost exactly be watching the green "plasma ball" inside the lamp generated by the Beamer and placing it exactly at the tip of the cathode.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 03-29-2019 05:41 AM                     I made my own version of the Kinoton tool. I found much more effective than the align-o-tron. The latter gives a few things for granted that the Kinoton tool does not.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-29-2019 07:44 AM                     I actually used both a laser and the kinoton tool. The laser is great for shooting straight line so I would use that to get the centers of everything lined up (lens mount to gate to anode support to center of reflector. The Kinoton tool is great for aligning the reflector and checking working distance as you can see exactly how the light is coming back. One never had to tweak it afterwards either...it was always as good as you were going to get and rather even. Ours is the original with the uncolored white light.  |  IP: Logged

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