"haha that's one way of getting the 40 posts" I'm kind of surprised that Dave didn't take those 40 posts away from me which by accident got me up to the next
level. I thought I had to be at the 300 range. It certainly was not earned. Just click and copy. Guess I'm at Jo Jo's
level for posts anyway so it's not a big
point. Kudos on Jo Jo for sticking with it this long and being first however.
Seriously, what I copied and posted in posting something at least somewhat useful is available to anyone that wants to
send me a E-Mail
address for it. I was actively working on an improved notes section of a Backstage Handbook before I got distracted and seriously sidetracked into lamp specs. If you can read Word Perfect, my notes and tips on stuff are yours. Eventually, I expect Dave will add a backstage handbook/tips section of the forum that all my pre-typed notes as well as yours will be added to - given we can
ease the hardness in adding them one by one on
line. Something like a key word search I would think to a large text that's easy to post. What's the difference between a
laminate saw blade and a rip one? Such things are not yet in the Backstage Handbook, much less proper drilling speeds for hole saws.
"Brain Fart" is a Marine term from my first memory of it. Before that, who knows - good question. Ask R.
Lee Irmie on his very cool show - that's History
Channel "Mail
Call" fodder. Since it is a Marine term - as I learned it at least, I'm sure he could abuse you worse than I could - you civilian pig, and tell you the answer - in his own drill instructor way. I love the show, it takes me back a few years. The first half of "Full Metal
Jacket was in many ways very much similar to my own experiences on boot camp - including the guy that went crazy, but short one rifle and insert one "born again Cristian" in the washroom while I was on guard, instead.
As for the lamps, the customer is pissed that inspite of his own strikeing out with many of the same sources I called, he still could not get lamps for his projectors at the last minute. As R.
Lee or any Marine would say, Waah! To say the least. Prior planning prevents evan civilian pig piss poor preformance. You need spares for your
LCD projectors, perhaps you should have bought some before you needed them at the last minute. - Spare lamps, what a concept! It's not exactually as if I was using the fixtures. "Prior planning prevents piss poor preformance." While I only contacted like 10 of about 30 sources for the lamp, It's pritty well assured that the lamp he needed is only now being made in Japan, and it's going to take about three weeks to get. Sorry but he should have been around when another
projector company
Barco decided to improve upon and discontinue their R9840300 lamp without any lamp to replace it. Same story with
Altman discontinuing their studio
Fresnel line 2K and 5K of lamp bases. What, you big companies discontinue a product before you have something to replace it with? It's now a year and a half since
Altman stopped selling replacement lamp bases to their 5,000
Watt Fresnel. Just got a reply from the vendor rep today with a status report from them. "The engineers are meeting tomarow on this problem" and in a few more months hopefully they will have a replacement lamp
base completed in development.
What any person with say 20 something 5K Fresnels that have lamp
base problems in need of at least replacement if not upgrade is supposted to do until than, is besides the
point that
Altman like
Barco decided one day just to stop buying the standard lamp
base replacements a few years back, but did not have anything else to replace it. Hello!!!
You guys really want to get out of highschool and into the real world? So
Barco that makes some of the big time video projectors one day decided to discontinue their primary lamp for the
DLC 6400
projector. Replacement lamps start going fast for it and at an increcingly higher price until they are all gone - much like the above Sanyo lamp and at a much similar in $400 to $500.00 each price each for only 750 hours. Gee it's only going to be a few months until they
stock the replacement be it shipped in from Japan or a new type of lamp as replacement - all those clubs and places that don't
stock spares should just make do or buy the video version of the lamp that is not as high as resolution but will still work. Want my job? Okay, we have an order for Hard Rock Cafe - Chicago for more lamps like tomarrow. How can we
swing with
Barco to get us some lamps for this as opposed to the commen client? Perhaps a threat that all restraunts since it's Hard Rock Cafe and well known, will take their
Barco Projectors out immediately and replace them with another brand unless the company puts some lamps into them? Not realistic, since it was only one of the clubs, but it worked just fine. That in addition to their already worsening bad name for themselves for the specifiers of the
fixture in the industry. Yep, that worked. Funny how fast that company got some of the not available lamps out to me even if discontinued.
Than there was the time about three years ago that GE/Corning that makes all the
PAR lamp
reflector and
lens for any brand of
PAR fixture Osram or Philips or GE/Thorn besides those coming from Japan - Ushio, decided to take a little three month vacation. Can you say a run on
PAR - especially
PAR 64 lamps all across the lighting industry and prices rising by the day? Now there was a tricky time for the industry because S-4
PAR fixtures just were not on the market in any numbers yet. Rock shows were stuck with no spare
PAR 64 Lamps at best, or changing their designs.
So it's probably going to be about 3 weeks to get this
projector lamp. No big deal from me. This customer is only one of our larger clients but is at least not screaming yet. I'll wait and even
stock a spare one for him once it's out - even id stocking a lamp that's not used counts against my profit sharing. So we lost $1,500.00 in sales due to some corporate mishap. No big deal, the customer still knows who to
call for his repairs much less more expert help or effort in getting lamps beyond the companies that just told him no and did not spend 4 hours in finding another source - hopefully. At leasat next time a
fixture for Sanyo needs a lamp, I'll just check the chart I made and know what type it is. You make lemonaid out of lemons where you can.
So no, there was no solution to this problem. On the other
hand, the Color Command lamps keep getting cheaper and more reasonable.