Projectors in the space

[Paul Dart]

Hello,

It's nice to have a working projector in the space, so I thought I
would have a quick audit of what we have.

Working:
http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Equipment/Projector/Hitachi_ED-X3450
- I suggest no one hacks this as it seems to work and is quite nice

Working but not great:
http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Equipment/Projector_NEC_VT440
- Works, but it's not that bright and the settings are set to 'extra
bright' or whatever.

Not working:
http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Equipment/Projector/Epson_EMP-X3
- LED indicates bulb has gone

MIA:
http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Equipment/Projector_InFocus_IN1
http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Equipment/Projector_Sanyo_ProX

The three projectors I found in the space have been located to the
first table on the left in the quiet room. There were spare VGA cables
and IEC/figure of 8 power leads. These were all put in appropriate
boxes/lin bins in the workshop.

I guess this means I've volunteered to look after them then? OK.

Cheers,

Paul

[Cadmus]

Irritatingly it's cheaper to chuck a projector than get a new bulb. Probably >£100 for a EMP-X3 bulb.

Out of interest what do people call figure-8 connectors with earth? I always call them 'cloverleaf' but people look at me like I just set their mum on fire.

[tgreer]

Cloverleaf

[Ian Henderson]

I thought most people called them IBM connectors?

[Bacon Zombie]

I worked retail >10 years ago in an electronic store and know them as
Cloverleaf leads. It was also what they were listed as in the
wholesalers cataloge. .

On 30 October 2012 22:13, Ian Henderson <i...@advancedforensics.com> wrote:
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> I thought most people called them IBM connectors?

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[Niall Kearney]

Cloverleaf here as well. Try Micky Mouse next time someone doesn't understand cloverleaf although that might be more american, if they don't understand that chances are they just call it "That thing that makes my laptop charge."

2012/10/30 Bacon Zombie <bacon...@gmail.com>

[cepm...@yahoo.co.uk]

Official name is IEC IEC 60320-1 C5/C6 coupler

The (male)inlet to the equipment is the C6
The (female)cable end is the C5.

Also called by some people "cloverleaf" or "mickey mouse" because of the
shape.

Phil

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On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:01:05 -0000, Cadmus <wraith...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

[tom]

The blue infocus one was my own that was on loan, someone stole that last year and I havent seen it since :/

[Martin (Crypt)]

I do have a projector that doesn't work no more, but it was a problem nothing to do with the bulb, when I get back to the space, I'll bring in the bulb to hopefully get that other one fixed.  I think they're compatible, but I'll have to check

[Senake]

As someone who has gone and bought a projector because a replacement bulb cost more, I can confirm that this is very irritating.

It just occurred to me that there is probably a business opportunity in there somewhere - the creation of replacement projector bulbs using high intensity LEDs and if required, convex lenses. If anyone is interested in exploring this further as a venture and/or open source project, do please get in touch.


Senake

[tom]

well this was partly what my infocus was for, I wanted to loan it to the space to burn the bulb out so I could justify pulling it apart and hacking a huge-f**koff green laser to it

But alas, some thieving-asshole-bastard stole it.