Kinoton FP 50 D - Lamphouse Troubleshooting Chart

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Troubleshooting
Issue: 04/2011
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Nothing works - main power is not available
- loose main power connection
- check fuses or circuit breakers
- check main power connections
Xenon lamp does
not ignite
- no contact
- ignition unit is defect
- lamphouse is open
- ignite manually
- change·
- close lamphouse door to contact
the door switches
Screen lighting is
uneven
- xenon unit is not in optical axis
- xenon bulb is not adjusted correctly
- xenon bulb has been run too
many operating hours
- call service
- adjust
- change xenon bulb
Base cover (an-
ode) discolored
overheating of base (over 230° C)·
- electrical connections are poor
- not enough cooling
- not correctly adjusted optical axis
- intensity of currents too high
- fasten contacts change
- check cooling
- service
- check, adjust
Bulb gets black or
dark colored
- because of overheating the bulb
gets fractures
- check, described in line above
“change bulb”
Slug on the top of
cathode
- wrong polarity, wrong connection
- wrong connection of lamphouse
- check, call Service
- check, anode (the bigger
electrode) must be connect
above cathode (Service)
Deformation of
electrodes and
lamp blackening
restless arc
- not in range of current control
- alternating component is too high
- bad or missing arc stabilization
- bad or wrong cooling
- adjust intensity of currents
- check rectier
- call Service
- check cooling
Bulb gets milky - life of xenon bulb is reached
- intensity of currents is too high
- change lamp
- check and adjust intensity of
currents
- remove ngerprints on xenon
bulb before switching on
Asymmetrical bulb
blackening
- bad or missing arc stabilization - call Service