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Author Topic: Xetron Lamp PC board troubles... John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-19-2002 04:25 PM                        Has anyone out there experienced failures of the PC board in the late model Xetron Lamphouses? When thery die, you lose the ammeter and the hour meter, the pop fuses like they are not there! I have a couple of units out there that have lost these boards twice each now! AC line has been checked and monitored...Xetron has responded with 'We have had no problems like this' and 'double the fuse size' HA HA!! I believ the power transformer or the bridge is dying... Let me know if you have had simular problems! Thanks! ------------------ John Eickhof President, Chief Slave Northwest Theatre Equipment Co., Inc. P.O.Box 258 Wendell, ID. 83355-0258 208-536-5489 email: jeickhof@nteequip.com  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-20-2002 12:15 AM                     I have had one fail in recent memory...the transformer was the part that gave it up...the lower bobbin was very noticably blackened...not something a bigger fuse would help! Please note, Xetron boards do not seem to come calibrated on the amp/volt meter...there are trims on the board if you have a good ammeter. Steve ------------------ "Old projectionists never die, they just changeover!"  |  IP: Logged

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