Metal halide fibre optic illuminator with colour wheel

For giggles I looked up the phone number in the video. Its still valid for that company.

Mark Gray

Really neat to see the old styles of light engines. same Idea as my little fiberoptic Christmas tree, and palum palum fiber optic light

Jonathan Hughes

Could you please do a teardown of that or another lamp igniter? I imagine it's probably similar to some of the ozone supplies you've done over the last few months, but would definitely be worth knowing more about anyway!

William Taylor

It probably is just an IR filter. This unit hasn't seen enough use to damage the blue with heat. I think it's just age related.

Big Clive

I wonder if the blue filter part of the disc is UV damaged which would prove that the filter only removes IR.

evilution

I've got a fiberoptic flower that was upgraded with a 12V LED lamp. It makes a huge difference to the appearance.

Big Clive

This unit was definitely quite expensive at the time.

Big Clive

Good to see (hear) you are well on the way to recovery! I bet those units cost an arm and a leg 'back in teh day'

Mr B Shepherd

Great video.

Our colour changing fibre optic Christmas tree requires replacement of awkwardly situated Halogen Lamp. Good to hear that you're making progress. They're introducing a 30% effective Pill now!

Andrew Donaldson

Good to see you are feeling better. Very interestin bit of kit.

Mike Hughes

Hmm.. Imagine what could be done with a modern redesign of this, by using a high power LED and a color LCD panel instead of colour and “twinkle” effect wheels. (With a powerful blower directly cooling the panel of course. 😃)

Bo Holbo Rasmussen

Yeah. Much better.

Big Clive

They were never really efficient. Mainly for visual effect.

Big Clive

Yeah, test strip line is very faint now.

Big Clive

Most were basically a box, lamp and fibre collet.

Big Clive

I dusted this one out before the video. If you leave fingerprints on the lamp quartz it causes devitrification and lamp failure.

Big Clive

It look an awful lot like a Martin FiberSource QFX150 clone, doesn’t it? Although I guess there is was a limited number of ways to make these things back then. https://www.martin.com/en/products/fibersource-qfx150

Bo Holbo Rasmussen

The ones I took apart had a lot more dust in them :). We would clean the lenses, discs and mirrors for better efficiency. And we weren’t allowed to touch the (quartz) glass with our bare hands…the same lamps were used in so called ‘robo-scan’ lights from Martín. They also used a quite rare dmx-protocol…not one that would work with newer light desks…Feeling better already?

Mike Weijmans

You sound healthy. Hope all is well.

Peter Stevens

.01% efficiency ?

BiggieJohn

I hope you are feeling better.

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