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Author Topic: Listing of xenon bulb pin diameters John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-06-2004 05:41 PM                     Anyone have a listing of all the different diameters used with xenon bulbs?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-06-2004 07:23 PM                     You can usually find these in the back of each manufacturers bulb catalog. Generally a bulb drawing refrenced to a figure number for each lamp envelope type.... Mark  |  IP: Logged Bevan Wright Expert Film Handler Posts: 176 From: Fountain Valley, CA, USA Registered: Sep 2003 posted 05-06-2004 10:02 PM                        On our website under Products/MXL Lamps if you click on the MXL model (which is cross referenced to the other makes) you can download PDF line drawings of all the lamps.  |  IP: Logged John Walsh Film God Posts: 2490 From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way Registered: Oct 1999 posted 05-07-2004 11:13 AM                     Bevan - thanks! Exactly what I was looking for. Mark - I went to the Osram tech pub pages.. while the drawings of the bulbs were very good with dim's for almost everything, pin diameter was the one thing missing. I never could figure out the exact way the pin diameter was supposed to prevent putting the wrong bulb in. For example, the pin for a 4K H/S is the same as a 3K H/S, so an idiot could do something 'bad.' I know the length is different, but never underestimate the tenacity of an idiot. I was trying to explain the reason for the different pin diameters to a newbe, and tried using the 'big nozzle for leaded gas; small nozzle for unleaded' analogy. The kid didn't know what the hell I was talking about, as he's never even heard of leaded gas.... gettin' old....  |  IP: Logged

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