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Joop de Gruiter
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From: Lund, Sweden
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 - posted 09-02-2004 04:48 AM      Profile for Joop de Gruiter   Email Joop de Gruiter   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I wonder what bulb is used in the 16mm Elmo projector CX-550. I know that it is a horizontal xenon bulb. But I need to know more exact specifications to order a new one. Guessing it's 550w. Are there several brands that make this bulb?

If anyone knows where I can find the manual that would be great too.

Thanks for any help!

Joop.

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Hugh McCullough
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The xenon bulb is indeed a 550w.
A manual can be purchased from www.efilmcenter.com

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Steve Guttag
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The xenon lamp for an ELMO CX-550 is indeed a 550-watt lamp. It is ELMO code #1374. The model of the lamp is XE-550A. Elmo dealers can obtain the lamp for you with a list price of $525.00 though street price is often less.

Steve

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Joop de Gruiter
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Thanks, very helpful information. So this is a bulb only made by Elmo or do Osram and other lamp manufacturers make this model too?

Joop.

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Steve Guttag
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Elmo does not manufacture xenon lamps. They normally source them from Japan though. Many of their lamps, though not necessarily the one for the CX-550, come from Ushio and Toshiba. Which lamp manufacturer has the "XE" prefix to their lamps? I'm pretty sure OSRAM does not make the lamp.

Steve

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Gordon McLeod
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Originally the Elmo lamps were from Toshiba

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Daryl C. W. O'Shea
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Not sure who makes it, but Xe is the symbol for the element Xenon.

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Jon Miller
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Wacom Electric (a Japanese company not related to the well-known maker of digitizing tablets) also makes xenon lamps for Elmo. Their lamps generally use the "KXL-" prefix (for example, the lamp for the Elmo XP-750 is a KXL-752HF).

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Joop de Gruiter
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Ok, now I've found a KXL-550HF bulb. Can someone verify that this bulb can be used with the Elmo CX-550 16mm projector? The seller says it does and I want to believe him but when I search the net I only find relations with slide projectors...

Joop.

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Steve Guttag
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I'm not near my ELMO books but I'm pretty sure that lamp is only used with their 550-watt xenon slide projector. I know that the CX-550 and the slide projector do indeed have different lamps (different part number for Elmo too).

Steve

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Jon Miller
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Yes, the KXL-550HF is indeed a lamp for an Elmo xenon slide projector (the Omnigraphic 550AF Xenon, to be exact). I bought one of those lamps on the cheap through eBay with a shred of hope it might work with my 550-watt Eiki xenon 16mm, but it did not work. Omnigraphic 550AF Xenons do occasionally pop up on eBay so I'd imagine there's someone out there in need of a KXL-550HF.

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