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Author Topic: ICP Battery life approximately 6 years Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-08-2015 03:57 PM                     This has been discussed a bit in other threads but probably deserves its own. Barco has just issued an Info-T and is joining the ranks with NEC (and I'll wager Christie is soon to follow if they don't have a bulletin out already) to change the ICP battery every 5-years. Since we are at 5-years on the first series 2 projectors with ICPs, I bet the problems are just now starting to show up. You might as well start stocking up on the BR2330 coin type batteries if you have a bunch of DLP series 2 machines.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 12-08-2015 05:10 PM                     yeah, interesting that it came up just now! So in the end there's no issues with soldering?  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-08-2015 05:52 PM                     That is the "other" device. The battery the Info-T deals with is just the normal Clock battery...they also don't mention that it has anything to do with the certificate...just that the clock will reset.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 12-08-2015 06:25 PM                     I assume there is no warning mechanism other than your own schedule for changing that battery? - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 12-08-2015 06:56 PM                     Barco could revise the Series II 4-year maintenance tasks to include replacing the battery. They could revise the projector software and Communicator to add a 5-year reminder for the battery. Or, do nothing?  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-09-2015 05:58 AM                     Yeah...I'd like to see it part of the "D" maintenance...I'm sure that the cost of the battery wouldn't tip the scales as compared to the water pump! Then again, I wish there was a means to set the intervals of A and B since some booths run cleaner/dirtier than others. While I'm at it...have thermal thresholds that immediately put up a YELLOW tail light that filters need to be cleaned. Note, I've put in a request to have a configuration where one could specify the subnet that the projectors should be on so that Communicator always "finds" them. I hear it is under review. As such, it will probably be given more credibility that it is desired if MORE people make such a request.  |  IP: Logged Danial Simmonds Expert Film Handler Posts: 107 From: Kota Damansara, Selangor, Malaysia Registered: Jan 2008 posted 12-14-2015 06:16 AM                        Christie does have it stated to be replaced every 5 years in a document somewhere, i seen it ages ago.  |  IP: Logged

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