# Re: UMAX Astra 1200S lamp question

Wing T. Wong (wtang7607@zippnet.net)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:52:33 -0800 (PST)

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On the topic of the scanner, just bought a 1220S recently.. :)

If the lamp does burn out or something, where do we go to buy a new one
and how would we go about installing it? (This might be off topic, so I
apologize)

Wing.

On 25 Feb 1999, Zygo Blaxell wrote:

> In article <9902251704.AA23776@beast.emg.sms.siemens.com>,
> Matt Mozur <sane-devel@mostang.com> wrote:
> >I also have a 1220S - the lamp does stay on for a while, but eventually
> >does shut off. it seems to be controlled by the scanner - as you said,
> >there doesn't seem to be any way to do it via the driver.
>
> It does shut off? How long does this take? I've left the scanner alone
> at night and the next morning the lamp is still on. Maybe it's getting
> some stray SCSI commands across the bus and those are keeping the lamp on?
>
> >Maybe I'll check the UMAX web site....
>
> It seems to be somewhat dead at the moment, at least from here.
> It's a little disturbing when a mailing list provides useful information
> faster than a vendor's web site. :-/
>
> >P.S. I believe that they use a cold cathode fluorescent lamp - nowadays
> >these lamps have lifetimes in excess of 25,000 hours to 50% luminance.
> >I've seen some lamps quoted now in excess of 40K hours.
>
> 25K hours is ~3 years. Not quite solid-state, but close enough I guess...
>
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