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Author Topic: Cinema Film Systems Manual!!! Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-09-2003 11:00 PM                        Yes, console and automation. Please, please, who has it?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-09-2003 11:35 PM                     Ummmm, you might what to check the Film-Tech website under their "manuals" section. They have what you want. CFS console/automation manual  |  IP: Logged Mike Pennell Expert Film Handler Posts: 150 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 07-10-2003 03:24 AM                     I think thats where i got mine , but i might also have some lying around. If i do ill send you some copies.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-10-2003 03:39 AM                  Just to lean on Mike's post... Does anyone have a manual for the CFS "DREAMCATCHER" Projector? NO COMMENTS PLEASE!!!!! I'm looking for a manual, NOT a lecture! >>> PHIL  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-10-2003 04:53 AM                        Marvellous, Brad, how did you find that so quickly! Unless you added that immediately after my post , what we have here is a classic example of how perception is controlled by expectation: several people had told me it was impossible to find the manual, even film-tech didn`t have it...I quickly checked myself and found that it wasn`t where it should be: after the Christie manuals. Unless of course it was filed under CFS... Anyway, thanks once again for cultivating this great source of information. Still, is there any info material covering the automation in greater depth?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-10-2003 02:03 PM                     To my knowledge that is the only manual ever made for that system. If someone has something else, please send it in. CFS Christie Cinema Film Systems It all depends on how it was added to the page. Whenever you are looking for a manual from a company like Christie or Strong it's easy. When you are looking for a manual from Cinema Film Systems you have to remember it can be listed by their more common abbreviation CFS.  |  IP: Logged Travis Hubrig Expert Film Handler Posts: 175 From: Minot ND, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 07-11-2003 08:53 PM                     I think I may have some more info for you... The other theater in town has CFS. As I recall they have two different CFS automations... Not sure what they have for manuals, but I will borrow them and compare.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-11-2003 09:11 PM                     Some of the CFS's units used a rip off of the Raven Pac automation that should be in the manuals section  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-12-2003 10:59 AM                       Yes, and an ORC rectifier below - did they ever strike out! If you're going to rip-off something, at least make it something good!  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-12-2003 03:46 PM                    had to replace 3 forward diodes in one of them the other day. Suprisingly it's been over a year since I have had to replace one at our theater.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-12-2003 05:41 PM                        I just replaced one of the positive diodes where the lead had burned cleanly off... I will post a picture of the automation later.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-12-2003 06:23 PM                     Never had many problems with the Raven dimmers and automations They are primative by modern standards but usually bullet proof the failure is usually the SCR or the UJT on the timer board  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-13-2003 12:36 AM                    quote: I just replaced one of the positive diodes where the lead had burned cleanly off... yes, I have seen that happen before. Have you ran across any that have these color shields wrapped around the leads. There the ones that can slip off and on the diodes. If so you might want to remove them because all they do is build up heat around those leads that can cause those leads to burn cleanly off.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-13-2003 08:00 PM                       Isn't that more of a poor solder or crimp connection than it is the vinyl? quote: the failure is usually the SCR or the UJT on the timer board Well, it's not a very good copy, either, with lots and lots of chintzy relays.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-14-2003 01:59 AM                    Not when it actually burns the lead wire in half. it would be if it burned in half at the crimp or solder area. Since we stopped putting those color shields over the lead wires we no longer had them burning in half.  |  IP: Logged

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