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Author Topic: Exciter Lamps----What El;se are they Good For? Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-23-2004 01:31 AM                     Now that the red led devices are in, what can a rather dim, high current low voltage bulb be used for?  |  IP: Logged Allison Parsons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 630 From: East Peoria, IL Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-23-2004 01:52 AM                        Build your own robot and use them for eyes! Or build a snowman and use them for eyes as well. You could decorate a Christmas tree with them. Use them as earrings. screw them on the side of your neck and pretend like your Frankenstien. um.... I think that is about it. We just threw ours away.  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-23-2004 02:19 AM                     I put them in a box along with the old readers and put them on the shelf next to all the other old useless shit I should throw away but can't because I'm a pack rat.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-23-2004 07:38 AM                     We've got 4 left. I put 'em in the parts cabinet on the shelf with parts left from other long gone machines, too obsolete to ever use, but too good to toss.  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-23-2004 10:28 AM                     Save 'em. There are still some theaters around my area using exciter lamps.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-23-2004 12:44 PM                     Save your lamps, and old readers. When it is found that red readers along with cyan sound tracks are killing Santa, and the elves, the old stuff will be back (just kidding). Merry Christmas everyone.  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 12-23-2004 05:59 PM                        Sell them to people like me that still run them at home....except I have like 5 spares...sorry JJ  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-23-2004 09:30 PM                        There are several venues around here that still use them, some of which will likely not convert for many years, as they only run film occasionally and only show older films when they do. It will probably be many years (if ever) before any significant number of new prints of older titles have dye tracks. In this case, there's no reason to convert. And, should a dye track print show up, I honestly didn't think that a dye track sounded all that bad on a white-light reader; it wasn't optimal, but it wasn't unlistenable, either.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-23-2004 10:52 PM                        Put'em on eBay. L@@K! RARE OLD-STYLE MOVIE PROJECTOR LAMPS! These lamps have been used in an ACTUAL MOVIE THEATRE to show BIG SCREEN MOVIES. These are NOT projection lamps but the "sound lamps" that caused the SOUND to appear on the BIG SCREEN. These lamps are DISAPPEARING due to new digital technology appearing in projection booths, so they will become HARDER and HARDER TO FIND. Who knows what kind of classic soundtracks these LAMPS may have illuminated! These lamps may have provided the sound for Gone with the Wind, Titanic, Friday the 13th or any of a thousand unforgettable films! Don't miss out on this chance to own a BIT OF CINEMA HISTORY by bidding on these CLASSIC PROJECTOR LAMPS today!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-23-2004 11:02 PM                     So YOU'RE that guy who writes all of the copy on ebay!  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-23-2004 11:18 PM                        Didn't exciter lamps originate as automobile headlights in the 1930's?  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-24-2004 08:09 AM                     John, I dunno but I do have experience with Ford Model-As...1928 - 1931. They did NOT use exciter lamps but more of a conventional looking lamp with a bayonet base. Further more, the Model-A had, running/parking lamps in the main fixture (or in the cowl lamps, if so equipped but never both) as well as high and low beams. They were not sealed though and the early Model-As (1928-1929) used nickel reflectors that would oxidize. Steve  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2004 12:18 PM                     It would be funny if everyone in the world gathered them up and shipped them off to Dolby! Mark  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-26-2004 12:27 PM                       quote: L@@K! RARE OLD-STYLE MOVIE PROJECTOR LAMPS! HAAAAAhahahahahaaaa! I'm ROFL!!  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 12-27-2004 11:09 AM                    Ha ha ha, that's awesome, Mike!  |  IP: Logged

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