Eclair ACL Of Viewfinders and Burnt Out HD Motors

[cinesota@yahoo.com]

He burnt up two(!) heavy duty motors?  Ouch!  I hate to hear that given 
they are such rare birds to begin with.

I just want to go on record as saying my trials with a 14 volt battery 
is strictly a short term test.  I tested it with a well maintained ACL 
and 400' English magazine.  I only ran off about 200' of a 400 foot roll 
and it did indeed help the loss of speed problems I was having.  Over 
the long term Robert may vary well be right that running the ACL with 
this voltage will be detrimental.  Robert seems to know a thing or two 
about electronics so it might pay to heed his words.  I don't want to 
feel responsible for anyone blowing up their ACL.  My take on this has 
been that I am stuck with the small motor on my camera and if I blow 
that up, so be it.  The small motor is practically useless for my 
purposes to begin with so I'm not that concerned about damaging it.  I 
plan on buying a Moviehouse DC2Light motor anyhow.  
If I had an HD motor I would think twice about playing around with the 
battery voltage.  Robert's advice of using a stiff 12v pack might be the 
way to go.  Someone like Clive Tobin or George Zorzoli may be able to 
give us some insight into this motor/voltage debate.  As I understand it 
George is a whiz with the ACL electrical.   Have you asked him about the 
subject Robert?

Regarding George Zorzoli, you might suggest the ebay seller inquire into 
what it will cost to fix the motor(s).  May be something as simple as an 
overload fuse?

I was always under the impression that there were two viewfinder bases 
for the ACL.  One is the base for the Angie non-orientable finder which 
is permanently attached to the viewfinder neck.  The other is the base 
for the Angie orientable finder and the Kinoptik finder, which features 
the large silver lock ring connection that allows you to interchange 
viewfinders.  I thought the NPR and the CP-16R both use this design same 
design.  Am I wrong?  Were there other finder bases for the ACL?  You 
learn something new every day.

Over and out,
Ray

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