{"id":71270,"date":"2014-08-14T20:10:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:30:29","slug":"projector-lamp-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/projector-lamp-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Projector Lamp Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Projector<\/a>I have done over a dozen\u00a0audio-video projects<\/strong> in my career. One of the constant complaints I would get from Owners were about projector lamps<\/strong>. The Owners would inevitably complain about the sticker shock for replacement bulbs. Despite the fact, I recommended a mass purchase of replacement bulbs as part of the project. A bulk buy of 50 to 100 lamps would have saved a lot of money. Nobody wants to spend that money upfront. It’s easier to push the costs off of the capital budget into OPEX. It is somebody else’s budget<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Grey-market protector bulbs<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>This penny-foolish procrastination<\/strong> could end up costing organizations a great deal more. When a department is required to purchase its own consumable goods, they often buy the cheapest goods<\/strong> they can find and the results can be tragic. A recent example comes from Scotland<\/a>. Back in May 2014, the 175-year-old Glasgow School of Art<\/a> (GSA<\/a>) Charles Rennie Mackintosh<\/a> building caught fire. The blaze inside the historic building is believed to have started when a projector exploded<\/strong> in its basement according<\/a> to the MailOnline.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Luckily there were no reports of serious injuries. If it turns out to be an exploding projector, the cause could have been a grey-market<\/a> bulb. Grey-market<\/strong> goods are often sold on dodgy websites as original equipment. They are cheaper and are often packaged in convincing counterfeited packing. Monoprice<\/a> had this same problem a while ago (which I reported on here<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

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In order to educate yourself, and protect your clients, projector bulb reseller – JustLamps.net<\/a> –\u00a0 published a website – Counterfeitlamps.com<\/a> – which provides some pointers on how to recognize counterfeit lamps<\/strong> and what to do if you get one (or twenty).<\/p>\n

Clean out the projector filters<\/h3>\n

T\"Climb<\/a>he second step to protect the installation is to service the projector. Everybody hates to climb the ladder and clean out the filters<\/strong>, but it’s got to be done. It increases the life of the lamp, so you save money by increasing the lamp life which reduces the risk of buying a counterfeit lamp and possibly burning down a building.<\/p>\n

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Protect your equipment (and buildings) by replacing projector lamps before they exceed their rated hours. Do not keep using it until it stops working. It could get ugly.<\/em><\/p>\n

There are opportunities in here, many mid-high quality projectors will now generate alerts when it exceeds a number of hours. Maybe you can be the on the ladders cleaning the filters for them.<\/em><\/p>\n

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