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Mark Gulbrandsen
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Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-26-2004 08:52 PM

I'm replacing two Dolby LEDs tommrrow morning. These LED's are 5 years old and were not hooked up to turn on and off with the projector motor or via the automation.... so they burned continously. Both have multiple segments that are out. Hooking the led's supply across the motor or other available automation switching circuit greatly extends their life span. Dolby LED's will typically have a street price of 75.00 to 90.00 these days depending on your dealers markup.

As for life span of DTS drives, I can't honestly say. The original metal die cast Jurassic Park Drives lasted a long time anad many are still running today. The worst were the 3rd version Toshiba but then I can't remember anything really good that Toshiba has ever made. Once a DTS player has been upgraded to Teac drives they generally don't fail.... I've never had to replace a Teac drive after an upgrade myself. Other than power supply fans which are an easy fix DTS had one other fairly common failure in 6D's and these occasionally pop up... and that was the DC convertor for the analog output stage. DTS used to be willing to supply them but they no longer will. they aare fairly easy to replace and we get them directly from the present manufacturer that supplies them to DTS. The symptom is a green digital light but no output.

As for networkking an XD-10, its not yet possible to do it but will be sometime in the near future. Its just a matter of software and adding another card. Then prints can be moved at will around a multiples and audio will come over from what ever player it was loaded into.

Mark @ CLACO
(Live from Fallon, NV.)

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Darryl Spicer
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From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 07-26-2004 09:02 PM

I have had to replace some Teac drives recently. They just stopped reading the discs and replacement was the only solution. It was only one drive in two different units. It had been four or five years since the upgrade.

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from)
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 07-26-2004 10:08 PM

Teac 16x SCSI drives have a MTBF of 100,000 POH. After applying a realism factor of 1/3, four or five years isn't too shabby.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
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posted 07-27-2004 11:44 PM

Thats about what I would expect out of them. I have a bunch approaching that age so time will tell.

Mark @ CLACO
(Eating my way back across Nevada!)

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