does the tray holder prevent you from agitating your developer?
Is that a sodium safelight?
What's the chassis?
And is the enlarger head height motorised because I don't see any handles for adjustment?
I just finished my first print session in my new darkroom. This is the fifth darkroom that I have built (and hopefully the last). It is smaller than previous darkrooms - 7' x 9', it has an 8' long sink, made of plywood, sealed with marine varnish. There is a lip near the top to hold frames that allow me to keep trays at the height of the top of the sink - so less bending. My CPP2 died, and I replaced it with the new CPE-3 film processor jury still out on that. I kept the revolving door. My enlarger is an Ilford MG600 (Durst Multigraph in disguise), I shoot mostly MF now, with some 4x5 and some 35mm thrown in from time to time.
The darkroom is finally complete. Almost 15 years in waiting, 6 months in progress. Walls are a double layer of black landscape plastic hanging from ceiling joists or stapled to a stud wall. At my age, I want this to be sort of permanently temporary, so that when I'm gone, they can just tear it down in no time. I decided to skip the plumbing and use 5-gallon buckets instead. Door is a 3-layer light maze. All the equipment and furniture was FREE.
The Catlabs timer at Freestyle looks good, and is less than that. https://www.freestylephoto.com/902300-CatLABS-Universal-Digital-Darkroom-Enlarger-Timer
Although personally I would prefer the set with foot switch included, at ~$70 more, but that is out of stock.
Looks like B&H offers the same product here: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod...et01_universal_digital_darkroom.html/overview
last I checked, the catlabs timer can't drive a dichro head, it require 25 volts to each bulb? a catlabs timer would send 120 to the bulb and kill it. Plus it's wired incorrectly. My issue is more a powersupply than a timer, as I can always just wire the power supply in series to the timer (I would assume?)
Ah - you lack the power supplies, not the timers.
That is a separate and distinct issue.
What model enlarger, with what model light source on them?
So do they have Chromegatrol combined timer and power supplies?
These: http://www.khbphotografix.com/omega/Timers/Chromegatrol.htm
Filters are no problem, I own an enlarger with both a set of lens mount filters and condensor head filters. Sucks for split toning though.Most dichro heads are eligible for social security. Do you have an enlarger with a condenser head with a light bulb?
You can use various ways to adapt filters for contrast control.
Keep it simple.
Hi, What timer unit do you use with this? The university I attend has 6 dichro enlargers of the same model, but unfortunately, the last two working timer units gave up between when when I last used them and the start of the recent term a few months back. These enlargers were in significantly better condition than the B&W Omega's my uni has in the rest of the darkroom. I'd love to get them working again, if the timer is within the equipment budget of my university, but as of currently, buying a working OEM timer looks like it'd cost *at least* $500, and is outside of my Uni's budget.
Edit: power supply is the main issue, not timer unit, an existing timer could be adapted no problem seperate from a power supply if needed.
My darkroom, completed this spring after 13 years of waiting. Walls are a double layer of black landscape plastic, power is by extension cord, water by buckets and jugs. Door is a light maze. All the equipment and furniture were free.
Good God...Now that's what I call a hood!Here is our Kitchen DarkroomView attachment 35351
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