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dturco
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:30 pm Post subject: My trip to VDC with Picture link |
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Ok so I uploaded 33 pictures of 1.3 mb each 1 by 1. Boy that was a long process. I hope every one enjoys looking at them as much as I liked taking them.
Just a warning, I am not a great Photographer. 
http://s955.photobucket.com/albums/ae34/dturco/My%20trip%20to%20VDC/
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I took these pictures in a 30 minute time span and just posted what I remember from my conversation with TSE. It was not an in depth day long event, just a very casual and impromptu visit. I was very grateful that Scott took the time he did to show me around. The folks at VDC are very casual, but it was still a place of work that I was trying to play in.
I did stop in twice, once without the camera for about a half an hour too.
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Curt Palme
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Sooo jealous!~
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dturco
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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I even got one on one time on how to do Magnetics with the awesome TSE and the factory gurus. That alone was worth the trip. 
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Tim in Phoenix
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Guys!
About seven years ago the VDC plant was targeted head-on by a serious hurricane so they packed everything into tractor-trailers and headed to Atlanta for a few days.
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Curt Palme
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Ummmm, BTW, if you find a solid source for 'Cliton' tubes, I'll take a dozen, thanks! 
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cinema mad
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Wow lots of good stuff, nice pics BTW..
I wonder what application those special CRT projectors with the Awesome Gun assemblies used for
any Ideas ??...
Cheers..
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Jeremy112
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Very awesome to look at dturco! I am drooling over those tubes, and they wont even work for me! Awesome pics, I was hoping to see a pic of the projected image from that LED projector, very interesting! I wish I could have been there and gotten some one on one time with the gurus as well!
Well worth the trip!
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Tim in Phoenix
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | Ummmm, BTW, if you find a solid source for 'Cliton' tubes, I'll take a dozen, thanks! |
Who do you call when the moderators get off the chain? 
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perisoft
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500 lumen LCD projector of that size? That can't be right. Even calibrated for HT use, inexpensive LCD PJs hit 500 lumens out of 2000 peak; stuff in that form factor is usually 3k+...
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dturco
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| perisoft wrote: | | 500 lumen LCD projector of that size? That can't be right. Even calibrated for HT use, inexpensive LCD PJs hit 500 lumens out of 2000 peak; stuff in that form factor is usually 3k+... |
No Not LCD... LED no bulbs at all. It is rated for 50,000 hours of use from the light engine.
Spanky Ham did a thread about it call MY Trip To VDC
I kinda borrowed the title 
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| dturco wrote: | | perisoft wrote: | | 500 lumen LCD projector of that size? That can't be right. Even calibrated for HT use, inexpensive LCD PJs hit 500 lumens out of 2000 peak; stuff in that form factor is usually 3k+... |
No Not LCD... LED no bulbs at all. |
Ahhhhh! My bad. So, in that case, yes, it's rather more impressive!
Are they using R/G/B LEDs and mixing, or using a single white LED and trying to get the color temp right to start with?
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dturco
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| cinema mad wrote: | Wow lots of good stuff, nice pics BTW..
I wonder what application those special CRT projectors with the Awesome Gun assemblies used for
any Ideas ??...
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You know TSE told me what they were for but, I just can't remember. It is a very large version of a CRT 3 times the size of a marquee  If it comes to me I will post what it was.
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dturco
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| perisoft wrote: | | dturco wrote: | | perisoft wrote: | | 500 lumen LCD projector of that size? That can't be right. Even calibrated for HT use, inexpensive LCD PJs hit 500 lumens out of 2000 peak; stuff in that form factor is usually 3k+... |
No Not LCD... LED no bulbs at all. |
Ahhhhh! My bad. So, in that case, yes, it's rather more impressive!
Are they using R/G/B LEDs and mixing, or using a single white LED and trying to get the color temp right to start with? |
I don't know how it works at all, I was just too involved with My Tube Fetish.  The picture... well TSE offer me a tripod to take a picture, but it would have been a screen saver or, of a landing strip for a simulator so I passed.
The picture was very sharp, and loaded with color and great depth.
All yours for $17,995 [I think.]
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dturco
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | Ummmm, BTW, if you find a solid source for 'Cliton' tubes, I'll take a dozen, thanks! |
O.k. so I'm not a great photographer, or, even a good speller.
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Love the 55 gallon drum picture. It looks like you're in an earthquake ( or star ship acting )
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dturco
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| AnalogRocks wrote: | | Love the 55 gallon drum picture. It looks like you're in an earthquake ( or star ship acting ) |
You mean when everybody farts left, then right, to fake the shaking of the ship?
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I knew you'd get that
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Just curious, does the factory do magnetics any different than any of the instructions on the site, like the bill blue instructions? Sounds like a great trip! I was wondering how they retube. Looks like they don't do it any differently. I thought maybe they would have a fancy jig for removing the tube from the LC chamber, but it appears not.
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dturco
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| Sparky015 wrote: | | Just curious, does the factory do magnetics any different than any of the instructions on the site, like the bill blue instructions? Sounds like a great trip! I was wondering how they retube. Looks like they don't do it any differently. I thought maybe they would have a fancy jig for removing the tube from the LC chamber, but it appears not. |
I'm not sure, I'm going to do a new set-up with what I learned while at VDC and cross reference BILL BLUE's guide then I am going to try ... repeat try, to document how it goes with pictures and a poorly written write-up.
I can tell you this, it only took the guy showing me how to align the magnetics and focus the de-focused lines and dots... 6 minutes on a blue tube.
Now the tube was set up out of the chassis on a level test bench with reference marks on the wall, yep the wall, not a screen and he showed me how all four corners should show a casted shadow from the lens equally. 
All in 6 minutes. No replacing hands on experience.
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Did you spot any new Red and Green c elements ?
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