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Author Topic: Ealy model Strong X60 Donald Brown Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Lincoln, DE Registered: Sep 2009 posted 10-03-2009 06:10 PM                     Is anyone on the forum familiar with the first edition of the Strong X60 lamphouse? I was in contact with Strong to ascertain wether the capacitors in the unit were dry or liquid filled, and if the capacitors are liquid filled, if the oil contained PCBs. The answer I received was brief and direct: the equipment was obsolete! The lamp is quie servicable, but before I undertake any restoration effort on the unit, I would like to determine the hazard of the capacitors,if in fact they present any. Thanks, Don Brown  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 10-03-2009 07:51 PM                        If this matters so much to you, just replace them. Louis  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-04-2009 11:49 AM                     If they are oil filled they most likely contain PCBs!! You need only worry if they are leaking the oil. Almost all oil filled caps from this era contian PCBs. If you can't confirm it one way or the other and as long as they are NOT LEAKING just replace them.... it's a very good lampenhousen! It is not obsolete... It just shows you the lack of care for customers that Wrong International has.... they don't give a crap! Mark  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-04-2009 04:29 PM                     The original X60 was a vertical lamp and the first horizontal version had a very shallow reflector that did not produce a lot of light Once the deep glass version came out they are excellent  |  IP: Logged Robert Throop Master Film Handler Posts: 412 From: Vernon, NY USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-05-2009 08:37 AM                     quote: Gordon McLeod The original X60 was a vertical lamp and the first horizontal version had a very shallow reflector that did not produce a lot of light I think the X60 was always a horizontal lamphouse. The X16 was vertical. Bob  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-05-2009 01:41 PM                       The X60C was the best of the lot with deep dish reflectors  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-05-2009 01:42 PM                     Didn't the X16 look like a Peerless lamphouse, just without knobs and a rear door that can be opened?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 10-05-2009 01:56 PM                        The X60's were commonly upgraded to use the same reflector that is used for the Ultra 80 and Super 80 making them identical optically. Even the old ones can be wonderful if they are electrically OK. Louis  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-05-2009 03:54 PM                     The x16 was a 2500 watt max We have the original glass reflectors and 6KWburner assemblies for the X60 verticals that were used at cinesphere originally  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-05-2009 07:30 PM                       The C was the last of the glass reflectors and is why I liked it best. The X60D and everything Strong after that had metal reflectors. I put two used C's in the Dolby SF screening room. Still running today. I found spare glass reflectors just in case.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-05-2009 08:41 PM                     If I'm not mistaken, the X60C marked the end of the 220V igniters for Strong too. Steve  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-05-2009 11:05 PM                       ...and the housing strangely resembled a Futura...  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 10-06-2009 09:46 AM                        Steve is correct about the 220v igniters. The "replacement" igniter is a 120v igniter, a bracket, and a 220v to 120v transformer. The actual igniter IS from a Super 80. Louis  |  IP: Logged Charles Caron Expert Film Handler Posts: 188 From: Billings MT, USA Registered: Jul 2005 posted 10-06-2009 09:52 PM                     Off the subject perhaps, but does anyone have experience with using osram lamps vs.superior quartz in the x60c? thanks.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 10-07-2009 12:38 AM                     We use Ushios in our X60C's, no problems, long hours.  |  IP: Logged

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