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Author Topic: Highlight II - converting from 3000 to 2000 watt bulb. Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 09-26-2010 05:41 PM                     I am installing some Highlight II consoles. Originally the console / lamphouse units had 4000 or 3000 watt bulbs installed. We will be using 2000 watt bulbs in some of these, so I RTFM and noted that the 2000 watt bulb requires a new cathode support collet. But, I have two questions: 1) Should I use a 2000 short arc or regular 2000 bulb 2) Does the current "ANODE" support collet have to be changed?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 09-26-2010 06:14 PM                        Always use a longer bulb if you can. Heat is further from the seals. #2 What does the manual say? Louis  |  IP: Logged Eric Robinson Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 538 From: Santa Rosa, CA Registered: Jan 2005 posted 09-26-2010 06:43 PM                     The manual says that the anode mount only needs to be changed for bulbs less than 2000. But, it never hurts to double check. I hate having a gotcha at the last minute. I don't know much about bulbs, so why are the short arcs available if the long bulbs are better. Do they theoretically have a smaller brighter ball of light?  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-26-2010 07:51 PM                     Certain reflectors are more efficient with the shorter lamps as well the shorter lamps started out being marketed for the small ORC lamphouses and originaly they were the source of them just like the HTP was a christie thing  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 09-27-2010 02:00 AM                     You can change out that reflector with one of those 7.6 inch Technalight reflectors and a XBO2000W-S (or similar) horizontal short gap bulb and you can get at least 3 times the light output with this combination and with less heat generated. There has been past comment on a drive-in that has converted to these reflectors and the picture on the screen is vastly superior than the one in an indoor house. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-04-2010 08:35 PM                     In Strong consoles you may find that the "HS" short Osram lamps work the best... Something to do with the size/depth of the mirror and shape of the Osram lamp I think... Hopefully you are not only going down in lamp size but also in screens size. Or staying within a screen size that will net you the light you need!! I am installing a Technilight kit in a Super Highlite console next week. It's the only way to go in the older ocnsoles as Strong wants as much for an new reflector as the technilight kit costs me! I;ve seen anough of them work now to vouch that they are quite amazing... The Technilight web site is really lame though . Monte.. that Drove In is here in SLC. They have better images on their screens than some indoor theaters in this area have. Mark  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 10-05-2010 01:22 AM                     Mark, can you post pics of your conversion after your done? Also, do the Super Highlights you're installing these in use the x60 or x90 style light bench?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-06-2010 10:48 PM                     No, I won't be able to do that Jeremy. Propreiatary stuff. Sorry.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-07-2010 07:14 AM                     It is nothing special the reflector has come from several sources during the history of the kit and the alginment is nothing different either  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-07-2010 12:58 PM                     On page three of "Comments and Info on Robert Film Service Lamphouse / Reflector Upgrades (Page 3)" there are pictures of one with a 3k lamp in a ORC lamphouse  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 10-07-2010 11:20 PM                     Sorry just not finding it. That website is really poorly designed.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-08-2010 09:07 AM                     that is on film-tech film handlers forum on page 3 of that topic  |  IP: Logged

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