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Author Topic: Please help identify this Christie component. Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 09-08-2009 02:55 PM                     I stumbled accross this one day and picked it up. Does anyone know what it is?  |  IP: Logged Tristan Lane Master Film Handler Posts: 444 From: Nampa, Idaho Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-08-2009 03:37 PM                     Based on the display labels and mention of air pressure and other specific projector variables I'd guess it's for a controller for a Showscan or other special venue setup.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-08-2009 10:53 PM                     Looks like it could be for the Epic special-venue projector Christie marketed around the time digital cinema was still in the prototype stage.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-09-2009 02:14 AM                     Wonder if one can find the Christie part/model number mounted somewhere on this device (i.e. IGA15M . MK35 . 3Q . 112564-001.. et.al - for example's sake) and do a search (a google search for example), then maybe one can get a more descriptive name of this device.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 09-09-2009 10:48 PM                     Lo and behold, the Christie Epic manual is in the F-T Equipment Manual Warehouse. Go to page 13 for an overview of the controller.  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 09-09-2009 11:43 PM                     ok...can you say "over engineered?" Has anyone here used one of these projector setups? PS: Thanks for the identification, much more to it than I thought.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-10-2009 08:35 AM                     originally that was the westrex special venue/studio projector which was used by showscan and simex  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 09-10-2009 10:05 AM                     NOOOOoooooooooooooooo! CHRISTIE EPIC! Keep it away from me! It burns!  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-10-2009 10:46 AM                     http://www.showperfect.com/ they originally designed the machine at westrex and that was sold to christie and now they service them and still build them Charles Fox was the designer  |  IP: Logged

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