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Author Topic: When to strike the Xenon in the morning Bill Langfield Master Film Handler Posts: 280 From: Prospect, NSW, Australia Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-26-2004 12:10 PM                        Whoa, ANDREW Who hooked up this 'Lamphouse Feedback'? That sounds cool!! Was it Barry? (from ASN?) Are you using MultiMation III? What about a turret left open relay, YES PLEAD GUILTY of doing that.  |  IP: Logged Andrew Jefferson Film Handler Posts: 23 From: Brisbane, QLD, Australia Registered: Jul 2004 posted 08-26-2004 05:52 PM                     Sorry, No turret relay here... Anyway you should be closing it yourself after each lace-up, Alarms are for equipment failures not human failures. I'm not sure who did the initial set-up, it might have been GUVT or ASN. BTW. We have AMX-MMII.  |  IP: Logged Bill Langfield Master Film Handler Posts: 280 From: Prospect, NSW, Australia Registered: Apr 2001 posted 08-28-2004 01:26 PM                        Andrew, Point taken. Thank you.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 08-28-2004 04:24 PM                        FWIW, it appears that iWERKS sim rides shut the lamp off at the end of every session (about every four or five minutes), and then reignites it again in about the same amount of time. Maybe that's why the screen illumination is so bad at Paramount Canada's Wonderland, with all of those ignitions. Maybe Phil can comment on why they didn't choose to use a standby mode in this setup?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-28-2004 08:50 PM                     Our SimEx ride at Ontario Place stays lit all day The Ushio line of lamps was designed for use with standbye mode in mine and the stabalizatuion changes with the current to correct for arc wandering  |  IP: Logged Phil Blake Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 558 From: esperance western australia Registered: Nov 2003 posted 08-29-2004 06:56 AM                        I always ignite the xenons at least 15mins before start of show. We use manual switching of xenons on the Vic5 consols as we have found if the automation starts xenon , it drags the projector motor down and it drops out causing a failed start.  |  IP: Logged

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