Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Exciter Lamps----What El;se are they Good For?

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Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 12-23-2004, 01:31 AM:

Now that the red led devices are in, what can a rather dim, high current low voltage bulb be used for?

Posted by Allison Parsons (Member # 2728) on 12-23-2004, 01:52 AM:

Build your own robot and use them for eyes!

Or build a snowman and use them for eyes as well. You could decorate a Christmas tree with them. Use them as earrings. screw them on the side of your neck and pretend like your Frankenstien. um....

I think that is about it. [Smile]

We just threw ours away.

Posted by Dustin Mitchell (Member # 372) on 12-23-2004, 02:19 AM:

I put them in a box along with the old readers and put them on the shelf next to all the other old useless shit I should throw away but can't because I'm a pack rat.

Posted by Bill Enos (Member # 440) on 12-23-2004, 07:38 AM:

We've got 4 left. I put 'em in the parts cabinet on the shelf with parts left from other long gone machines, too obsolete to ever use, but too good to toss.

Posted by Ken Layton (Member # 133) on 12-23-2004, 10:28 AM:

Save 'em. There are still some theaters around my area using exciter lamps.

Posted by Bruce Hansen (Member # 281) on 12-23-2004, 12:44 PM:

Save your lamps, and old readers. When it is found that red readers along with cyan sound tracks are killing Santa, and the elves, the old stuff will be back [Big Grin]

(just kidding). Merry Christmas everyone.

Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 12-23-2004, 05:59 PM:

Sell them to people like me that still run them at home....except I have like 5 spares...sorry

JJ

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 12-23-2004, 09:30 PM:

There are several venues around here that still use them, some of which will likely not convert for many years, as they only run film occasionally and only show older films when they do. It will probably be many years (if ever) before any significant number of new prints of older titles have dye tracks. In this case, there's no reason to convert. And, should a dye track print show up, I honestly didn't think that a dye track sounded all that bad on a white-light reader; it wasn't optimal, but it wasn't unlistenable, either.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 12-23-2004, 10:52 PM:

Put'em on eBay.

L@@K! RARE OLD-STYLE MOVIE PROJECTOR LAMPS!

These lamps have been used in an ACTUAL MOVIE THEATRE to show BIG SCREEN MOVIES. These are NOT projection lamps but the "sound lamps" that caused the SOUND to appear on the BIG SCREEN. These lamps are DISAPPEARING due to new digital technology appearing in projection booths, so they will become HARDER and HARDER TO FIND. Who knows what kind of classic soundtracks these LAMPS may have illuminated! These lamps may have provided the sound for Gone with the Wind, Titanic, Friday the 13th or any of a thousand unforgettable films! Don't miss out on this chance to own a BIT OF CINEMA HISTORY by bidding on these CLASSIC PROJECTOR LAMPS today!

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 12-23-2004, 11:02 PM:

So YOU'RE that guy who writes all of the copy on ebay!

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 12-23-2004, 11:18 PM:

Didn't exciter lamps originate as automobile headlights in the 1930's? [Confused]

Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 12-24-2004, 08:09 AM:

John,

I dunno but I do have experience with Ford Model-As...1928 - 1931. They did NOT use exciter lamps but more of a conventional looking lamp with a bayonet base. Further more, the Model-A had, running/parking lamps in the main fixture (or in the cowl lamps, if so equipped but never both) as well as high and low beams.

They were not sealed though and the early Model-As (1928-1929) used nickel reflectors that would oxidize.

Steve

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 12-26-2004, 12:18 PM:

It would be funny if everyone in the world gathered them up and shipped them off to Dolby!

Mark

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 12-26-2004, 12:27 PM:

quote:
L@@K! RARE OLD-STYLE MOVIE PROJECTOR LAMPS!

HAAAAAhahahahahaaaa! I'm ROFL!! [Big Grin]

Posted by Mark J. Marshall (Member # 1409) on 12-27-2004, 11:09 AM:

Ha ha ha, that's awesome, Mike! [thumbsup]

Posted by Chris Medley (Member # 2145) on 12-27-2004, 11:28 AM:

That bad thing is, somone out there would be freaking out and digging in their pocket for their credit card when they read mike's post

Posted by Matthew Bailey (Member # 601) on 12-27-2004, 09:56 PM:

paint them clear red with glass stain or wrap red cellophane around them.