P3D Re 300 watt, 240 volt AC bulbs

[Peter Homer <P.J.Homer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phill Palmer wrote

>Having just acquired a clubman 300 D stereo projector
>the first things I noticed (apart from the abundance of
>wood used in it's construction) is that it has no transformer
>in it and the bulbs are 300w, 240v AC.
>
>Are these bulb still readily available in the UK or should
>I try to convert the projector to DC.

I am not shure about the availability of the original bulbs which I am
assuming were ordinary tungsten. But I did find that I could get halogens
like this with some difficulty when I wanted some as the nearest I could
find to the 200w bulbs  for my Fed before I located a local supply of 150w.
I think I still have the suppliers address but they took a long time to
locate these bulbs and the ones that are more readily available are actualy
for video lights and I have also seen them as the modeling lights for
studio flash equipment. I dont know about the problem of the temperature
with a wooden projector. This will actualy be higher for halogen but as
they will probably be smaller than the original bulbs the heat may not be
actualy anymore perhaps even less.    P.J.Homer



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