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Author Topic: Strong Lumin-X Hour Meter; Resetting? Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-07-2005 11:14 AM                     I serviced a few with resetable meters and changethem out quickly to non recetable because of fraudulent bulb claims  |  IP: Logged Aaron Mehocic Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 804 From: New Castle, PA, USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-07-2005 01:51 PM                     quote: Seriously I prefer a non resetable and run a service life log on the lamphouse and or console for other items such as blower maintinance, reflector cleaning / inspection, D.C. contact + wiring inspection, bulb rotations...situations that most people tend to ignore. Other than bulb rotations, I do all of that during the bulb change itself. This usually will average twice per year on most lamphouses. For me, changing a bulb is about a 1 - 2 hour job depending if I'm pressured to get it on the screen quickly or not. Breaking used bulbs at our theater entails placing them in their box - sans padding, taping the lid shut and dropping them from the fire escape. I scavange the old trigger wires to sell as #2 copper at the local junkyard.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-08-2005 03:04 AM                     quote: Frank Angel OK, the meters don't reset (very stupid design flaw IMHO). So it's just a matter of keeping records, which is fine Actually, there are advantages of the nonresettable, such as: (1)-for watching operating hours. Which house is being used more than others. (2)-keeping track of "excessive useages" as in private showings, unauthorized screenings, et.al. (3)-as well when certain preventive maintenance schedules are due - as in oil changes, belt changes, et.al. (4)- and the operating history of the equipment in a whole.. ..be like the odometer in your car-keeping track of the vehicle while it's in your possession. Remember, you're the "manager" upstairs who must also do the inventories.. quote: Aaron Mehocic For me, changing a bulb is about a 1 - 2 hour job depending if I'm pressured to get it on the screen quickly or not. Sounds like me when the first time I changed out a bulb, and that was in a Cinemeccanica 1600 vertical that had 9500 hours on it. Now, I can do a change within 7 minutes, and faster with Christie consoles with no leads to "bolt" down-just screw the danged thing in. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-08-2005 03:14 AM                        in keeping with the odometer analogy, are there lamphouses that have 2 hour meters, one resettable and one not? carl  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 02-08-2005 03:35 AM                     quote: Carl Martin are there lamphouses that have 2 hour meters, one resettable and one not? ..unfortunately, I've never seen one like that with the resettable option. Probably, just a cost thing for manufacturers to keep prices down. I'm sure that there are some specialized tekkie out there who can easily wire up a resettable hour meter to the circuit in parallel with finding hour meters through a wholesale/overstock/military catalog of sorts. And this wouldn't be a hard thing to accomplish if one wants this kind of operating procedure in their projection workplaces. =Monte  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 02-08-2005 07:05 AM                     I think Strong's electronic display has two features; an internal resettable meter and a non-resetable. The MIT console has two seperate meters which I thought was a good idea and more user friendly than Strong's.  |  IP: Logged

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