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screen printing => Equipment => Topic started by: DannyGruninger on July 01, 2014, 05:49:11 PM

Title: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: DannyGruninger on July 01, 2014, 05:49:11 PM
Figured I'd share that we just installed the newest red chili "D" flash in our shop(today was our first day using it) and I can say that it's awesome. More specifically the temp sensor that reads the garment works perfect. I've tested heather grey tri blends today, waterbase prints, etc....... It totally kicks butt so if anyone is looking at new flashes I would give the "d" version two big thumbs up.

I will have 3 regular red chili flashes for sale soon as I'm def. going to upgrade all my flashes in my shop to the new d style. If anyone is interested before I put them online for sale let me know.

Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: screenprintguy on July 01, 2014, 06:15:40 PM
I was just telling someone that Rich had told me about this a while back. Sounds like a nice nice flash unit!
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: DannyGruninger on July 01, 2014, 06:54:05 PM
Yeah man today we ran a couple jobs with it and set the auto temp shutoff. As we printed the job the flash automatically pulled time out to keep the perfect flash time. We were gelling our prints from the first shirt to the last shirt and didn't have to touch the time on flash or anything for that matter. Once we have more time with it under our belt I'll report back but right now this thing really really is doing good for us. The last couple years we have battled printing heather grey tri blends when we have to flash but this new d unit worked perfect on them. I'll be switching everything to them if all goes well because it's super production friendly.
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: screenprintguy on July 01, 2014, 07:08:33 PM
That's pretty awesome dude!!!!
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: sqslabs on July 01, 2014, 07:59:33 PM
Great feature for sure..  Is it integrated with the press to speed up indexing as the flash gets quicker?

Congrats on the new toy. 
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: jvanick on July 01, 2014, 08:51:09 PM
What's the price like on this unit?
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: ZooCity on July 01, 2014, 10:15:12 PM
I have wanted that feature so badly for so long great to see m and r successfully pulled it off I heard the earlier versions of this, from all different brands , weren't very accurate or useful.

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Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: Admiral on July 01, 2014, 11:04:10 PM
We ended up with one of the first ones and it's pretty awesome.  Did have to have the sensor replaced because it for some reason failed but it's been working fine ever sense.

I thought the Cayenne D worked the same but it doesn't work as well and so we are getting another Red Chili D to replace it.  It's too user friendly and easy to flash things correctly with it to not have matching Red Chili D's.

It's like when we went from a standard infrared flash on the manual to a swing away with timer to flash correctly but even better...

It's nice to take away variables and make the operator's job easier.
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: Underbase37 on July 02, 2014, 12:29:42 AM
I have not seen the "D" yet. Does it look about the same? I heard about this a while back & was trying to find out about retrofitting/upgrading our reg. Chilli's. I contacted m&r, sent a few emails, but it dead ended & I just took that as a no....having an auto sensor would be flipin awesome. Can you set the bulb intensity?
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: DannyGruninger on July 02, 2014, 02:13:49 AM
Quote from: Underbase37 link=topic=12266.msg116148#msg116148 date=14wouldn't 2
I have not seen the "D" yet. Does it look about the same? I heard about this a while back & was trying to find out about retrofitting/upgrading our reg. Chilli's. I contacted m&r, sent a few emails, but it dead ended & I just took that as a no....having an auto sensor would be flipin awesome. Can you set the bulb intensity?

Internally the d unit is different then the regular red chilis so you wouldnt be able to retrofit. Yes you can set bulb intensity as well which is great. I spun a lot of grey heathered tri blends today and saw zero signs of scortching.
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: Underbase37 on July 02, 2014, 02:33:43 AM
Quote from: Underbase37 link=topic=12266.msg116148#msg116148 date=14wouldn't 2
I have not seen the "D" yet. Does it look about the same? I heard about this a while back & was trying to find out about retrofitting/upgrading our reg. Chilli's. I contacted m&r, sent a few emails, but it dead ended & I just took that as a no....having an auto sensor would be flipin awesome. Can you set the bulb intensity?

Internally the d unit is different then the regular red chilis so you wouldnt be able to retrofit. Yes you can set bulb intensity as well which is great. I spun a lot of grey heathered tri blends today and saw zero signs of scortching.
Great just when I thought I was done messing with buying flashes. Haha. Oh well.....guess I'll have a few chilli's up for sell soon too.
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: jvanick on July 30, 2014, 12:10:39 PM
Getting ready to pull the trigger on one of these...

Anybody have any updates on how well they're working after a few weeks of time?
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: ericheartsu on July 30, 2014, 12:17:35 PM
we've had ours since the middle of may, and they rule.
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: jvanick on July 30, 2014, 03:22:50 PM
Putting the deposit on one tomorrow!
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: ericheartsu on July 30, 2014, 03:31:06 PM
Putting the deposit on one tomorrow!

that's awesome! it really helped us a ton, especially with all the different types of inks and tees we print here
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: jvanick on July 30, 2014, 03:40:33 PM
Which one did you get?

I'm planning on ordering the 16x18 one, as that'll take care of everything that we print...

wondering how the electrical hookups for 220 singlephase come... is it just a 6ga whip hanging off?
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: 244 on July 30, 2014, 03:56:15 PM
Which one did you get?

I'm planning on ordering the 16x18 one, as that'll take care of everything that we print...

wondering how the electrical hookups for 220 singlephase come... is it just a 6ga whip hanging off?
Yes it will come with the proper whip but no plug.
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: jvanick on July 30, 2014, 04:10:28 PM
can I request a longer whip be included in the unit as a 'option'?

would be nice to not have to have a extension if I want to move it from my auto to my manual press...
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: 244 on July 30, 2014, 04:32:16 PM
can I request a longer whip be included in the unit as a 'option'?

would be nice to not have to have a extension if I want to move it from my auto to my manual press...
You can. It comes with 12' standard. How long do you want it?
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: jvanick on July 30, 2014, 05:52:11 PM
20' would be perfect and would handle any possible combination I can think of at the moment.

do I just tell my vendor (Syd at T&J) to put it as a note on the order?

-J
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: Inkworks on July 30, 2014, 06:12:00 PM
This is one of "those" questions, but would one of these work on my Falcon "E" ?
Title: Re: M&R Red Chili D
Post by: jvanick on July 30, 2014, 06:34:48 PM
since it has a photoeye detector, I wouldn't see why not.