From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 06/20/01-04:45:44 PM Z
Did you ground the foil?
Bill
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Keith Gerling <kgerling@ameritech.net>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:39:29 -0500
>Well, I must have been suffering from a braincramp at the time I built my
>lightbank, because I honestly thought I was being instructed (by some lost
>source) to put a sheet of aluminum foil between the fixtures and the plywood
>that holds them. In any event, after reading the posts by Kerik (and
>others) I saw the light and inserted a piece of foil directly above my
>tubes. While still not lighting immediately, they need only a brief swish
>from another piece of foil to bring them alive. Best of all, after they are
>warm they all DO light immediately when the timer is reset. Perhaps during
>a period of downtime I'll give Ken's advice a try and reverse some of the
>fixtures.
>
>Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions.
>
>Keith
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