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Author Topic: Help- Xenon XCN Console Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-29-2000 10:00 AM                     Actually it is a bit of a safety concern there should be no voltage present on the output side of the contactor when it is unenergized  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-29-2000 01:02 PM                     I understand the safety issue. What I meant was, when energized, if he is getting 110V on all three phases of the load side, then the contactor is not keeping the bulb from lighting. He may have a different problem with the contactor not disengaging on 2 phases, but that wouldn't keep the bulb from striking. Rick  |  IP: Logged Marc Jones Film Handler Posts: 82 From: Elizabethtown, KY Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-29-2000 09:30 PM                     Well I replaced the contactor and nothing, next I started retracing the wiring and noticed that one of the post that the secondary was tied on to was missing the insulator, replaced and it fires up just fine. Thanks to all of you for your help to find the solution to my problem. Best Regards Marc Jones  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-29-2000 09:43 PM                     huh??  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-29-2000 09:47 PM                     next I started retracing the wiring and noticed that one of the post that the secondary was tied on to was missing the insulator, replaced and it fires up just fine. I repeat, "huh??"  |  IP: Logged Marc Jones Film Handler Posts: 82 From: Elizabethtown, KY Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-30-2000 05:07 PM                     To clarify: The metal plate that the six diodes (anode’s) mount on to, there are bolts used as terminals that connect the secondary to the diode’s cathode and the cap. The bolt is insulated on the cap side by a mica disc and through the hole by plastic and on the backside by a nonconductive disc to isolate the terminal. This nonconductive disc is what my unit was missing, hence a phase of the secondary was shorted out. I hope this helps clarify it. Thanks Marc Jones  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-30-2000 06:13 PM                     yep! Thanks Rick  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 08-31-2000 11:18 AM                     Is Xetron still putting the IREM power supplies into their consoles, or are they making their own now?  |  IP: Logged Marc Jones Film Handler Posts: 82 From: Elizabethtown, KY Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-31-2000 09:29 PM                     So far all the ones that I have are using the Irems, but the newest one is est. 10yrs old. So I'm no help Marc Jones  |  IP: Logged Sean M. Grimes Expert Film Handler Posts: 247 From: Lunenburg, MA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 09-01-2000 04:25 AM                        John, At least with my three year old XCN consoles they are still the Irem. And I wouldnt have it any other way. Now if I could only get someone to take my ORC lamphouse off my hands  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 09-01-2000 11:36 PM                     Yeah, I always liked the IREM power supplies. I thought they were a "clean" design. Sticking a screwdriver in there to quiet down the transformer laminations always spooked me a bit, but then I got a brass screwdriver.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-02-2000 01:34 PM                     I once ordered a silencing kit from Kniesley for a 550volt 2.5k rectifier (one of the big old selineum ones The kit I got was a bunch of finishing nails and a set of instruction to hammer them into the laminations till the noise stoped I felt my solution was better give the projectionist earplugs Neither was acceptable so we replaced it  |  IP: Logged

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