Re: DIY light source for 10X10" enlarger.

"Nicholas O. Lindan" <see@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> "jjs" <jjs.jjs.net> wrote
>
>> So, if I put up to 1000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [sic, watts?] into that head
>
> Seriously -- if you want to control a 1KW head it
> isn't any problem.  You will need an auxilliary
> contactor - a metal box with a relay in it -
> that plugs into the (220V ?) power and the
> timer.  You then plug the enlarger into the
> contactor box.  Not mine, but:
>
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=9893&d=1202624791

Sorry. That requires a user id and password. I don't go to that place.
It's 
full of icky self-congratulary strokers.

> If you are making a custom 1 KW head you may
> find yourself involved in making a power supply
> for it.  You would then have a contactor as
> an integral part of the supply.

I can build anything that does not use wiring. Regardless, I think I'll
wait 
for my smart colleague to come back from Antartica (no kidding) and let
him 
do the juice thing.

Thanks for your help.
(I did order the F-Stop timer. I've a lot of timers, but not that one.
Hope 
it gets BBC.)