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Lee Mannering
Film God

Posts: 3216
From: The Projection Box
Registered: Nov 2006

posted May 24, 2011 08:19 AM

A well worth it purchase from Derann Films recently was a new exciter lamp for my Elf 9-5 sound machine. I asked good old Ged if he had some and of course Derann did and have never let me down yet. Returning home and popping in the new exciter lamp and loading up a vintage flick I was amazed at the dramatic improvement in sound quality from the old films with quite an audible reduction is background noise and certainly cleaner to the ear. All this then made me wonder how many of us neglect to change exciter lamps every so often in our optical sound machines allowing the filament to wander out of alignment? Lets face it, its easy to overlook this small but oh so important lamp.

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Adrian Winchester
Film God

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From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004

posted June 01, 2011 09:20 AM

Interesting point - I have never EVER changed an exciter lamp in any projector, simply because one has never blown, so maybe I should keep in mind that it might decline if I used one for long enough.

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Lee Mannering
Film God

Posts: 3216
From: The Projection Box
Registered: Nov 2006

posted June 03, 2011 10:32 AM

Mind you, if you have a 9-5 Pathe Vox you wont need a exciter lamp as the projection lamp does the job for you as well.

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