Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Kinoton Reverse-Scan-Soundhead LEDs

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Posted by Fabian Schreyer (Member # 5120) on 01-19-2015, 03:59 PM:

After restructuring their business, Kinoton Germany seems at least to be a bit unreliable when it comes to delivering spare parts for their analogue projectors. At least they did not answer my emails regarding new LEDs for their reverse-scan-soundheads.

Does anyone know a supplier for these LED-arrays? And does anyone have a clue, who the manufacturer of these things might have been?

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 01-19-2015, 04:25 PM:

Dolby had the LEDs made (and I think USL did too). I'm sure Kinoton would have sourced them from Dolby. Order from your local Dolby dealer.

Kinoton only ever supplied the LEDs (in the USA) as part of the bracket assembly...which is a bit wasteful, in my opinion. How often has the aluminum gone bad?

Note, Kelmar Systems also should have the LEDs raw. Kelmar never cut the led lead length down like Component Enginering did.

Posted by Fabian Schreyer (Member # 5120) on 01-19-2015, 05:34 PM:

Thank you Steve! I'm gonna try to order via Dolby. Luckily, there are a lot of Dolby Dealers besides Kinoton...

Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 01-19-2015, 08:42 PM:

I have hundreds new in stock.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 01-22-2015, 08:21 AM:

I actually found the USL LED's last quite a bit longer than Dolby's do. So you might want to take that into consideration. They may have some left as well.

Mark