Author Topic: Carbon arc lightning question (Read 13946 times)

Andy.E · « **on:** March 08, 2002, 01:42:00 pm »

Hi out there,

I am sorry this is not about a BULB but about antique lighting. I have just got a very old looking cardboard box with

"CIELOR Charbons pour lampes a miroir"

carbon sticks, seems they were used for lighting by burning an arc between them. Manufacter is "Charbons Lorraine", Societe le charbon lorraine, 45 rue des Acacais, Paris VXII E

Sticks are about 8 inches long and 0,25 inches in diameter.

I will get webspace till tomorrow to upload a few pictures.
Just was interested if anyone could know how old these are and if theres a collectors worth?
pics will follow, thanks till then

Poppa Bill bulbs · « **Reply #1 on:** March 09, 2002, 08:11:00 am »

Hi. Andy I found a good site the other day called voltnet.com.If you click on it there is lots of interesting stuff about carbon arc lights. It really quite interesting.

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Poppa Bill

Andy.E · « **Reply #2 on:** March 09, 2002, 01:51:00 pm »

Hi poppa,
thank you very much for the link.

If anyone other here knows, pictures are up in between:
http://frauenmoerder.bei.t-online.de/Andy/

cu

EverBlest · « **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2003, 03:06:00 am »

quote:
Originally posted by Andy.E:
Hi out there,

I am sorry this is not about a BULB but about antique lighting. I have just got a very old looking cardboard box with

"CIELOR Charbons pour lampes a miroir"

carbon sticks, seems they were used for lighting by burning an arc between them. Manufacter is "Charbons Lorraine", Societe le charbon lorraine, 45 rue des Acacais, Paris VXII E

Sticks are about 8 inches long and 0,25 inches in diameter.

I will get webspace till tomorrow to upload a few pictures.
Just was interested if anyone could know how old these are and if theres a collectors worth?
pics will follow, thanks till then

EverBlest · « **Reply #4 on:** September 26, 2003, 03:09:00 am »

I may have a use for those carbon sticks if you still have them

John

Mónico González · « **Reply #5 on:** September 26, 2003, 10:09:00 am »

Welcome to the Forums Andy!

It seems as those carbon electrodes would be used in 35mm movie projectors, because till early 70's most projector lanterns did make use of voltaic arc as light source.
After those days, all machines were being gradually changed to short arc Xenon lamps. By the way, all today's projectors are factory equipped with Xenon lamps too.

But 1/4" (6,3mm) seems as a bit thin for cinematographic projection purposes, because most movie projectors did make use of heavier carbon sticks for high-current arcs (as thick as twice such gauge and more for currents up to 70 Amp. or so).

Best regards,
M. Gonz?lez.
http://mis-bombillas.webcindario.com

[This message has been edited by M?nico Gonz?lez (edited September 26, 2003).]