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Author Topic: XENEX Lamphouse zenon meter is running backwards... Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 09-23-2000 10:46 PM                        OK all... I have never heard of this, I have witnessed it, and am dumbfounded... A XENEX lamphouse zenon bulb meter is actually running backwards... No work has been done on this in over six months... and just thursday, the manager called me and made the claim... I went over and personally viewed it running backwards... What the hell is causing this?? Dave  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-24-2000 01:07 AM                     I'm sorry I can't help you Dave, but when I read the title of this thread I got the giggles and couldn't stop. "Put your bulbs in our lamphouse and they'll get brighter with age!" LOL  |  IP: Logged Michael Pace Film Handler Posts: 64 From: Dalby, Queensland, Australia Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-24-2000 03:52 AM                     Dear Dave, A time clock can occasionally run backwards. In my electrical days I have seen electric clocks run backwards. It was always as simple as turning them off and restarting them. I believe it is where the sine wave is when the motor is actually turned on. If it persists you will need to buy a new time clock as the motor is about had it. Regards, Michael.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-24-2000 09:49 AM                     OH NO!!! You've got Christine!!! Does it play "Oldies" music too?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-25-2000 03:14 PM                       I've seen the ones in old Christie lamphouses run backwards. ------------------ Better Projection Pays!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-25-2000 09:02 PM                     Hmmmm...... Christie.... Christine.... Meters running backwards... Maybe there's a connection???  |  IP: Logged Joseph Pandolfi Expert Film Handler Posts: 213 From: Milford, CT. Registered: Nov 1999 posted 09-25-2000 09:42 PM                     Remember the thread I had on two of the H20 meters quit between 7999.9 and 8000.0 ?  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-26-2000 08:48 AM                        Get back! It's a time warp!!! ------------------ Greg Mueller Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut  |  IP: Logged

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