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Author Topic: Who makes the smallest Xenon lamp house. Alan Gouger Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 501 From: Bradenton, FL, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-28-2006 12:21 AM                        Ive seen some really small self contained units in the Picture Warehouse here on this forum but I have no idea what brand they are. I do not have a lot of room behind my Devry and thought I would not be able to go with Xenon until I saw these pictures. Can some one identify this lamp house? Thank you. Here is one behind a Devry including PS. No bigger then the stock lamp house that comes on the Devry. This would be perfect. Picture from the Picture Warehouse.  |  IP: Logged Don Furr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 509 From: Sun City, Ca USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 04-28-2006 06:25 AM                     Alan, I had a pair of B&H Jan projectors that had lamps exactly like the picture. I don't know who really manufactured the unit but the plates on the lamphouses were Cinemeccanica. Don  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-28-2006 08:46 AM                     I have a pile of those Cinemecaniccas in my garage that I rescued from a junk pile at a local theatre. The 900 watters are actually pretty good lamps. The 450 watters were really designed for 16mm projectors but will work ok on 35's with an additional beam spreader lens in the snoot. There is always some job that a verticle lamphouse will do where a horizontal lamphouse can't fit in. Also, those are not the power supplies on those lamps.... they are just the ignitors. Both the 450 and 900 watters require external supplies. Mark  |  IP: Logged Alan Gouger Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 501 From: Bradenton, FL, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-28-2006 09:59 AM                        Someone just kindly pointed out to me the picture posted above is F/S on ebay as a complete system. To bad im east coast.  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-28-2006 11:09 AM                        Another decent small lamp is the Kneisley Xenex PUP it uses an integral 500 watt bulb / reflector. There were hundreds used in hollywood screening rooms and portable location equipment. I have a nice pair w/ power supplies located in s. central Idaho if anyone is interested. They work on 120V and are smaller than the 900 cinemeccanica, I have mounted them on DeVry, Atlas, and other semi portable machines. They put out a nice field. There even used to be one in Libby MT on the 'preview' projector that ran previews on a 30 ft screen and it didn't look too bad!!  |  IP: Logged Alan Gouger Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 501 From: Bradenton, FL, USA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-28-2006 11:37 AM                        John PM sent  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 04-28-2006 12:12 PM                     Do you Kneisley pup's still have the exposed aspestos wires, or did you replace them?  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 04-28-2006 03:24 PM                     FWIW: The original, semi-experimental JAN 16mm xenon conversion was supposedly by Hanovia (actually manufactured by God knows who), which used a pulse illumination concept in lieu of a shutter in the machine. That had to be great for lamp life with 24 ignitions per second!  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-28-2006 03:37 PM                        ah yes.."exposed asbestos wires" they are still there and are quite intact! Actually they are NOT asbestos as most people think! They are woven cotton braid saturated with liquified asbestos (cementatious) this type wire is quite safe and poses no inhalation hazard unless you remove and grind the insulation up to a fine powder and snort it directly! It's hazard is just another myth of the modern day do gooders... I managed to pick up several like new carbon arc spotlights years ago from a school district because someone thought the cotton braid wiring was hazardous!! Go figure! Of cousre, if one is nervous, all you need to do is encapsulate them with any good heatshrink or PVC tubing!! (another hazard??) or heaven forbid...black electrical tape!  |  IP: Logged Richard P. May Expert Film Handler Posts: 243 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jan 2006 posted 04-28-2006 05:40 PM                     John, We haven't been in touch in a long time, when you upgraded a DeVry projector for us at Turner Entertainment Co. in Culver City. I am interested in more information about the Knisely lamphouses, to be used on Norelco FP20 projectors. Dick May  |  IP: Logged John Eickhof Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 588 From: Wendell, ID USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-28-2006 11:28 PM                        Hi Dick! It's been a while!! The Kneisley L-100 lamps work pretty good! I don't know if you could get a wide enough spot for the FP-20 though....they are easily fitted to any pedistal..I have never tried one on a Norelco.. I have also sold the set I have but I am sure you could find some in the LA area as they were very popular on the Atlas rock & roll portables! What are you up to these days?? I'm enjoying life in Idaho now..phasing out of the film equipment biz! Email me when you have time! Take care, John  |  IP: Logged Alejandro Lopez Film Handler Posts: 22 From: Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña) Spain Registered: Nov 2004 posted 04-30-2006 10:21 AM                     This is a pic from a Marin MP-30 with a really small Wassmann Xenon lamphouse an an analog reverse scan. Alejandro.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-30-2006 03:09 PM                     Guys, Keep in mind that NO parts are available from Kneisley for the L-100 or the PUP. Kneisley is barely extant as it is...... Cinemecanicca does still have spares still for both the 450 and 900 watt verticles though. Mark  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 04-30-2006 05:38 PM                     Ajar projector company in Los Angeles used to take the parts from the L-100 to create a lamphouse no bigger than the incadescent model for their smaller interlock machines....that was quite a few years ago  |  IP: Logged Don E. Nelson Expert Film Handler Posts: 138 From: Brentwood, CA, USA Registered: Nov 2001 posted 05-03-2006 03:20 PM                     and the winner is.....The Universal Projector Co. ownwd and operated ( I think) in the old days by Mr. Charles Ajar and company. I own two of these great projectors (They came out of a BIG TIME hollywood movie producers private screening room) and look how small the Xenon lamp houses are. Can anyone out there in 'dimly lit theater" land, tell me anything at all about the history of: how this projector came to be, how many were produced for how much money and who mostly bought them. It seems to use some parts from many other machines..... Thanks.  |  IP: Logged

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