eTone JOBO Processing Unit: Any Good?

[Daniel Unkefer]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/27561595020...Cclp%3A2047675

I have a lot of JOBO and Paterson Film Tanks, has anybody here tried the eTone unit? BTW I have one coming, along with the XTRA long extension. It is reversible rotation and it says it works with the 2500 Multitanks which is what I use most

[Alan9940]

Hmm, the fact that it stops for 1 sec between rotation cycle changes would concern me. Let us know who it works out for you.

[John Layton]

Twenty seven bucks with free shipping? Hmmm.... I also wonder about the one second delay between rotations - which might be a problem if the unit would always pause at the same spot. But is this what happens? Then again, at that price, it would be worth the risk to do a bit of tinkering if needed to "get things right."

[gypsydog]

Twenty seven bucks with free shipping? Hmmm.... I also wonder about the one second delay between rotations - which might be a problem if the unit would always pause at the same spot. But is this what happens? Then again, at that price, it would be worth the risk to do a bit of tinkering if needed to "get things right."

27.00 dollars is for the extension rods. The roller base is 160.00

[Daniel Unkefer]

I paid $145.45 for my unit with shipping. The Extension Unit I bought from the link attached above.

[Michael R]

At a similar price point there is also Bounet’s B’s processor, but again, not for Expert drums even though it has a powerful enough motor for large solution volumes.

[Peter De Smidt]

With current technologies, making a non-waterbath version, complete with lift, wouldn't be that hard, using something like an Arduino for control. For BW, room temp developing should be just fine. Once could always use a cheap sous vide circulator to make a chemical tempering bath. None of that would be any harder than making the scanners that Daniel and I made many years ago.

[Joseph Kashi]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/27561595020...Cclp%3A2047675

I have a lot of JOBO and Paterson Film Tanks, has anybody here tried the eTone unit? BTW I have one coming, along with the XTRA long extension. It is reversible rotation and it says it works with the 2500 Multitanks which is what I use most

The eTone unit seems to work OK and seems to be well-made overall. I just got one as a backup for a CPE2.

[Daniel Unkefer]

The eTone unit seems to work OK and seems to be well-made overall. I just got one as a backup for a CPE2.

Excellent. Thanks for responding.

For me the small single reel 2402 sheet film tanks should spin just great on this thing. Agitating by hand the small JOBO tanks is a PITA. With the 2500 Multitank 4 and Multitank 5 the amount of liquid required can strain your rolling device. My answer right now is to have multiple Unicolor Unirollers at the ready, as backup. Unirollers seem to be running about fifty bucks on Ebay so my darkroom can afford a few. Also have a one direction only Chromega, never use it. The Uniroller also spins my modern and olde eight reel Paterson tanks. Been doin' that back into the seventies. Best way to process Ektalure fibre paper was in a 16x20 Unicolor Unidrum II. Recently I've been buying a few extra 8x10 Unidrums for processing 4x5 sheet film the lazy slacker way. Just make sure and use the rubber "thingee" to keep the sheets seperate. Having extra dry tanks around is a luxury. And I can do eighteen 6x9 and 2x3 sheets in a run in the Multitanks. Not too shabby. With B&W I always process at ambient. For color images I shoot digital.

[ic-racer]

I'd be worried chemistry and water would foul the electronics. Looks like it was designed by someone who never processed film before and thinks it is done in a 'dry' environment.
Those who have them, I'm curious how they hold up. Are they waterproofed?