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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2014, 10:45:49 AM »
Retrofit huh? May be time to get the old Atlas 5-way out of storage, if the price is right.
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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2014, 11:20:06 AM »
The Vastex specs say 5 light bars for the 2331. Anyone know how many bulbs that translates to? I think only M&R has stated how many bulbs are in their unit.

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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2014, 11:24:31 AM »
Retro fitting LED's in an old unit would be the ticket, but some companies would lose money on selling you a nice new unit, maybe once enough new units are in the market a retro kit might be on the way.  To me it looks very easy to set a bank of LED lights in an old unit and plug and play I could be very wrong though.

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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2014, 11:31:52 AM »
Retrofitting an older shallower fluorescent unit would be much nicer and neater than the much deeper units like the Atlas Combos or the MH and Mercury Vapor units with the lights below. Lotsa' wasted space on those. As for the units with the lights above, a whole new issue of making a mount, but probably do-able.
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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2014, 01:54:57 PM »
Retrofitting an older shallower fluorescent unit would be much nicer and neater than the much deeper units like the Atlas Combos or the MH and Mercury Vapor units with the lights below. Lotsa' wasted space on those. As for the units with the lights above, a whole new issue of making a mount, but probably do-able.

The msp 3140 is almost identical to the starlight with legs... Just gut out the lower shelf and it's a starlight... But they already said they aren't making a retrofit kit. :(

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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #20 on: September 19, 2014, 03:17:59 PM »
i just sold mine for $2k...there is still a market.  Mine was CTS ready though

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Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2014, 04:29:53 PM »
I would think that lots of shops would like to mount one of these shallow units on a tabletop and have the space underneath available for storage .


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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2014, 04:32:14 PM »
Anyone know how to modify a post made on Tapatalk? In any rate what I was trying to say, was that many of us, With limited space, would like to utilize the space available underneath. I have an overhead light unit and it sits on top of my screen drying cabinet.


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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2014, 05:02:49 PM »
Anyone know how to modify a post made on Tapatalk? In any rate what I was trying to say, was that many of us, With limited space, would like to utilize the space available underneath. I have an overhead light unit and it sits on top of my screen drying.


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Should be able to find a pencil button and edit it.  I have to do it anytime I try to insert an emoticon because they jam them up at the top vs inline where I want them.

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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #24 on: September 19, 2014, 08:32:45 PM »
Anyone know how to modify a post made on Tapatalk? In any rate what I was trying to say, was that many of us, With limited space, would like to utilize the space available underneath. I have an overhead light unit and it sits on top of my screen drying.


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Should be able to find a pencil button and edit it.  I have to do it anytime I try to insert an emoticon because they jam them up at the top vs inline where I want them.

After it's sent (by accident)? My problem is fat finger syndrome while making keyboard corrections in post I dictated.
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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #25 on: September 19, 2014, 10:21:28 PM »
That's what I'm talking about.

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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #26 on: September 19, 2014, 11:01:13 PM »
I purchased a retro-fit kit from Vastex for my old National Florescent Halogen Unit. It is like night and day. Old unit took 2,3 & 4 min to expose a screen. LED takes 8 seconds using film and 24 sec using vellum. Can knock out a lot of screens with the new kit.

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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #27 on: September 19, 2014, 11:02:23 PM »
Gilly,

That was posted using tapatalk from your press of course, right? :-)

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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #28 on: September 19, 2014, 11:06:49 PM »
Gilly,

That was posted using tapatalk from your press of course, right? :-)

It could have been!

I'm hoping my guy doesn't figure out he can play Pandora from it... not sure if he has and just knows better or hasn't gathered up the balls to ask me... or just doesn't realize it.

Myself, I've don't dug through it all, figured out how they are doing everything. :)

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Re: Vastex LED Exposure.. Nice unit
« Reply #29 on: September 19, 2014, 11:33:30 PM »
I purchased a retro-fit kit from Vastex for my old National Florescent Halogen Unit. It is like night and day. Old unit took 2,3 & 4 min to expose a screen. LED takes 8 seconds using film and 24 sec using vellum. Can knock out a lot of screens with the new kit.
How much was the kit?