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John Hermes
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 139
From: La Mesa, CA, USA
Registered: Nov 2008

posted October 01, 2010 01:59 AM

I picked up an Elmo ST-1200HD TC on eBay. It is a rather rare projector, a 24 fps-only model with five-blade shutter, sync motor, and timing belts and pulleys for video transfer. Unfortunately, it did not come with the special five-pin power cord. I have been trying to get it running. There are five wires originally connected to the jack: two blue, one white, one black, and a striped yellow, which is ground. Does anyone know how these wires are connected to AC? All the fuses check out okay, but I have not got it running yet and am afraid to do too much criss-crossing with the wires.

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted October 01, 2010 01:35 PM

It's Deja-Vu all over again!

http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=005591

There's something funky about this: in the world of household AC power you basically have Line, Neutral, Ground..or maybe Line1, Line2 and Ground. I wonder what a fourth and fifth wire would be for unless it went to some kind of external module.

Could this be the first three phase Super-8 projector? (You know: for showing industrial films.)

(Why are they always missing their cords?)

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