I’m looping this video to sleep to. I ran old Century projectors in a second-run theatre through high-school and then some. It was 1995 through sometime in 1999. Think Jumanji through Fight Club. This video sounds like home, when shit was simpler in life. 😂
@reasorlloyd1 century projectors were my favorite, I started when out for justice came out, a few months later I ran the projectors which were century projector head on an ORC console and platter system in a 14 plex, it was fun times and yes it was simpler times
@iasked4203 I have the newer polara buttons IDS, INS and IN2 which use Bluetooth, just haven't swapped them out and make a video yet, will do it eventually, the IDS one you can wave at it to make the button call
@Joshua_Park_693 not on this model, this is the first in this design they used a small little board with a recording chip, the next model after this one and up to the versions used today can have different languages that you can program from the computer
Just for fun, I'm working with a friend to make an audio driven simulation of these where the goal would be that you could virtually map an intersection in the program with interactable buttons, and be able to hear vehicles and the sound signels as if it were a real intersection. I plan to support these and the newer IN series since I have an exaustive collection of sounds for both, though I am missing one set of sounds used on certain models. They were voiced by the same person that did the ones on the button in this video, but they are entirely different recordings and I can't seem to find any software for setting up the buttons that has them.
@davidlurhfan2005 yes there are a few out there but disappearing slowly as the mr16 bulbs only last 3000 hours usually so maintenance is costly to change out the bulb, they are cool looking signs, I have a video on a worded fiber optic blank out sign
@barra308 not sure what you are asking, they keep track of how many button pushes the button received on a log but that is all, the EN4 was a basic unit, the EN2 had more options as it used an iccu to keep track of button pushes and failures during operation
For those of you thinking that the fourth pedestrian light is LED, then that’s wrong. It’s actually incandescent fibre optic and you can tell by how the light changes.
@davidlurhfan2005 this one uses a MR16 12 volt 50 watt halogen bulb, you could use a LED MR16 bulb but there not bright enough for me, but they are getting better with technology
Very interesting countdown signal insert. They must have not been very popular, what with the way it's set up in a single 12" housing. Fiber-Optic Sales and National Sign & Signal made nearly identical inserts like that, along with NS&S making a 16" version that was more common.
I always thought the man symbol on those National Sign and Signal pedestrian units looked kind of weird. We still have them at one intersection in Brockton, MA.
Thanks! Yes I got it off ebay of course, it's supposed to have a fancy animated screen but this one has issues that's probably why it was sold as scrap to one of the surplus companies that sell on ebay
@TheTrafficTech cool! Yeah I was wondering if updating the software would fix the problem, maybe it got corrupted when I got it the date went back to 1970 so I thought it might of corrupted the file, it is a nice little controller, I would like to get the update and try it just to see if it fixes it
@@kenlacey6781 absolutely! The clock battery on some of these controllers may die over time but it only affects the time of day plan. Other features should work normally. I could walk you through how to restore it and either use the ASC3 software or upgrade to EOS.
@TheTrafficTech I did try and restore the database from the econolite database to the controller in the software on the unit and it didn't work so I am hoping the software update will correct it, you get the econolite tune and takes a couple of minutes to load but still just boots to legacy screen, I was looking on econolite website and saw the EOS is it better?
Thanks! Yes the fiber optic one is my favorite, the blue walk one are you stating about the second ped? If you are I might have put a lighter led bulb in it, I will have to look but might be a 5k bright white giving that blueish tint
Yes it was common on the early models as they used big transformers to illuminate the neon tubes, the hand / man neon used a small electronic transformer they didn't make as much noise
Nostalgia for us old-hat projectionists. I worked at a theatre as a projectionist through high school in the mid to late 90’s. Ran this kind of system but it was a Century knock-off of this brand. It’s just a stroll down memory lane. The projectionist’s booth is just a long hallway with these machines pointing into each theatre. As a projectionist, you were constantly walking your booth to prevent any issues leading to film & projector damage (it happened frequently in the Century’s). If Ken uploaded an hour of footage of walking the booth, checking the machines, watching some of the movies, I’d watch it on loop.
This was there 2nd generation one, unfortunately you can't change the audio like the 3rd generation ones, you had to order a small board that plugged into the button inside, it's a shame cause I like the saying and they didn't make the audio file available
