Arriflex 16BL Wiring Diagram / Schematic

Tyler Fukuda · February 13

Hi everyone,

Since i’ve spent the better half of the month dealing with some electronics issues with my 16BL, I was able to obtain some wiring diagrams.

In case this helps any future tinkers or technicians, I will link this here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xIfWY-wM81fHhlr_F4Tjy83C77BO-rlV/view?usp=drivesdk

Steve Switaj · February 14

Did you ever make any progress on your project?

Tyler Fukuda · February 14

10 minutes ago, Steve Switaj said:

Did you ever make any progress on your project?

Hey Steve,

So after some attempts to fix it myself with the help from a friend, it was more than likely that the board had a fault in one of it's components and that i'd need to purchase a motor or decide to build one myself.

While deciding between all these options, I was contacted by Richard Bennett who runs Cinema Engineering here in Los Angeles. He was more than happy to work on it for me and has an electronics engineer that was willing to perform a diagnostic on it. So I ended up handing it off to him for repairs and have yet to hear back for further instruction. It's been 3-4 days now?

This was the quickest way to deal with this problem as I knew I'd find it very difficult to get a replacement motor and to build one was going to take quite a bit of time as i've never done such a task before.

As of today, I have been able to find someone who is willing enough to sell me a motor. They live in Germany though so I'm waiting for them to get back to me. The price seems fair and I may be able to snag a Type B viewfinder in the same purchase!

Tyler Fukuda · February 19

Have an update regarding my electronics issue.

1) I was finally able to obtain a working BLE motor from Willie Schmitz. He's absolutely awesome and communication with him was wonderful. Very glad we crossed paths -- It's currently in route from Germany. I will have a backup motor incase this one sh**s the bed.

2) While it's in service, it was quote $650 to repair, so I went ahead and am having them finish up the electrical issues.

Very excited to get this camera back up and running again as it's supposed to be...