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Topic: Light on Screens (DRIVE-In)
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Jack Ondracek
Film God
Posts: 2348
From: Port Orchard, WA, USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 05-29-2008 01:00 PM
quote: Mark Gulbrandsen
Jack,
The Technilite will give you the same light as your 7kw Big Sky whilst only running a 4200 watt lamp. So thats about 30% more light equivelent than the Big Sky. There is also ALOT less heat on the aperature because of the glass mirror.
The Big Sky boxes I have do use glass reflectors, and an additonal heat filter in the front. You can put your hand on top of my XL heads... they're almost cool to the touch... just a little warm.
On the Technilites: I really don't want to start this war again, but I'm still somewhat leery about it. I watched this, and other forums around the time I was looking to upgrade my booth. What bothered me was the secretive nature of the owners about their system, as well as the lack of long-term positive comments from actual users. I heard comments ranging from problems getting parts, peeling reflectors, and proprietary components. Seems bulb life comes into my recollection, but that may be getting mixed in with the digital stuff.
In any case, I found it disturbing that nobody who's had Technilite over the long haul is uniformly positive about it. Most of the comments come from early adopters, who probably had other issues with their projectors to begin with. The users who put the system in are very impressed at the start, then get strangely quiet. I do know one owner who'll gladly work himself into a rabid lather over the problems he's had with his installation.
Technilite is said to use a "systems" approach to acquire their light gain. I'm pretty happy with my "system" as it is. About the only issue I hear is whether you could get a little more light from a Century... maybe, maybe not... I don't know.
What I do know is that there's nothing particularly special about my lamphouses. Everything pretty much makes sense, and I understand what I have.
Maybe I could get the same light from a smaller bulb. I'd sure like to hear that from a drive-in that's had the system for 8 or 10 years.
In the meantime, I'm having more trouble from the Scotch Broom around the perimeter of my fields! ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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