{"id":844,"date":"2013-06-12T22:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2013-06-13T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:27:04","slug":"artograph-db300-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/2013\/06\/artograph-db300-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTOGRAPH DB300 – BULBS and MODIFICATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"
ARTOGRAPH DB300 REPLACEMENT BULBS <\/div>\n

I’m a great fan of Artograph and I’ve been using my Artograph DB300 for over 25 years. Alex Dow of Artograph Customer Services contacted me unexpectedly, as a result of one of my Artograph posts, and has generously posted links to my website, <\/a>“Drawing from Line to Life” book, and my Starving Artists website on Artograph’s Facebook page<\/a>. Thanks Alex!<\/p>\n

It also reminded me that I have a Post-It note (one of many!) stuck to my monitor as a reminder to pass on the news about replacement bulbs. My DB300 use two 150 watt photofloods in screw-fitting holders. Although my bulbs very rarely fail (more about this later) one inevitably did and, of course, at just the wrong time. I Googled for a replacement only to find the screw-fitting version is no longer available. So I had to either find an alternative or source ceramic bayonet sockets to fit the available bulbs.<\/p>\n

Fortuitously, as is often the case, I received an email from Lesley Brown who told me “It’s my husband who is the creative genius. Chris has been an illustrator for the past 30 years or so. I just get lovely jobs like searching for bulbs.” \ud83d\ude42 She needed the bulb’s code number, which I know (Phillips Photocresenta PF 605 E\/51), but I warned her about the availability problem. Within a short time Lesley replied to say she’d found a possible replacement. She says “I emailed the company who say they ‘use this product to replace the old Philips code P3-4 which was the PF605E’. And I have ordered a couple to try.”<\/p>\n

I ordered a couple too, and they work! They’re halogen, so a little cheaper to run, indistinguishable from the old E\/51’s light output, and – I’m getting ahead of myself here – they’re fully dimmable.<\/p>\n

The link you need at Easy Lightbulbs is:
\nwww.easy-lightbulbs.com\/light-bulbs\/halogen-lighting\/<\/a> <\/p>\n

View Chris Brown’s amazing artwork: www.ChrisBrownArtist.com<\/a>

\nand his excellent illustrations: www.ChrisBrownIllustrator.com<\/a><\/p>\n

ARTOGRAPH DB300 MODIFICATIONS <\/div>\n

Lesley was pleased to report that the replacement halogen bulbs have a life of 2000 hours. That sounds good… but mine last for years<\/b>! And here’s why… <\/p>\n

I fitted my Artograph with twin dimmers because sometimes, if my source entirely covers the 10″ x 8″ copyboard, I need to reduce glare on one or even both sides. That glare can severely reduce visibility of crucial detail. For a while I would unscrew the bulb on the offending side, but that reduced the light output by a full 50%. The solution? I altered my DB300’s wring, and moved the on\/off switch to make way for a pair of domestic lighting dimmers.<\/p>\n

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The re-sited on\/off switch can just be seen above the dimmer box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This allows me to control the lighting on one or both sides simultaneously. As a bonus, I always run both bulbs at 90% power – the reduction in light is barely noticeable and it greatly increases the lifespan of the bulbs. I’m also pleased to report that the dimmers work with the new halogen bulbs! I knew halogen bulbs are dimmable but I believed they needed dedicated dimmers – not so! <\/p>\n

You can view and copy the original and modified wiring diagram here:
\nwww.SibleyFineArt.com\/artograph-wiring.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n

And I’m asked so often for details of the Artograph DB300 that I put together a PDF version of the manual. You can download a copy here:
\nwww.SibleyFineArt.com\/artograph-manual.zip<\/a> (2.6MB)<\/p>\n

If you make the modification, encounter any problems, or have installed any other interesting modification, I’d be delighted to hear from you.<\/p>\n

Thanks again Alex. Thanks Lesley for finding the bulb source for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ARTOGRAPH DB300 REPLACEMENT BULBS <\/b>
\nI’m a great fan of Artograph and I’ve been using my Artograph DB300 for over 25 years. Alex Dow of Artograph Customer Services contacted me unexpectedly, as a result of one of my Artograph posts, and has generously posted links to my website on Artograph’s Facebook page<\/a>. Thanks Alex!<\/p>\n

It also reminded me that I have a Post-It note (one of many!) stuck to my monitor as a reminder to pass on the news about replacement bulbs… they are no longer available… I found a possible replacement “to replace the old Philips code P3-4 which was the PF605E”. I ordered a couple – they’re halogen and they work!…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

ARTOGRAPH DB300 MODIFICATIONS <\/b>
\nI fitted my Artograph with twin dimmers because sometimes, if my source entirely covers the 10″ x 8″ copyboard, I need to reduce glare on one or even both sides. That glare can severely reduce visibility of crucial detail. For a while I would unscrew the bulb on the offending side, but that reduced the light output by a full 50%. The solution? I altered my DB300’s wring, and moved the on\/off switch to make way for a pair of domestic lighting dimmers.<\/p>\n

You can download the original and modified wiring diagram and the Artograph DB300 PDF manual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[86,134,136,87,135],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-artograph","tag-bulb","tag-chris-brown","tag-db300","tag-photoflood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}