Christie 2210 ICP Board Battery

[Sarah Homer]

Anyone have advice on how to change the battery on an (Christie 2210) ICP board?

[Steve Guttag]

If it is just the RTC battery, then no special tools are needed. You will have to clear the marriage tamper (and have the credentials to do so). It is the same BR-2330 that all of the Series 2 projectors use.

Christie will reset the clock on the ICP using the other clocks within the projector.

If it is the certificate battery...then that is non-changeable as it is soldered in and once that battery goes flat (or removed), the certificate evaporates and the board will have a permanent security tamper that will preclude future DCI shows. This is true for NEC and Barco as well.

[Sarah Homer]

Really appreciate your response. Thank you.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

If it is just the RTC battery, then no special tools are needed. You will have to clear the marriage tamper (and have the credentials to do so). It is the same BR-2330 that all of the Series 2 projectors use.

Christie will reset the clock on the ICP using the other clocks within the projector.

If it is the certificate battery...then that is non-changeable as it is soldered in and once that battery goes flat (or removed), the certificate evaporates and the board will have a permanent security tamper that will preclude future DCI shows. This is true for NEC and Barco as well.

Well, if the cert battery does die, you can have a tech come in and replace the ICP with a new one. So the entire projector does not necessarily have to be replaced. Unless you wanted to go to 4k or laser...

[Gordon McLeod]

Well, if the cert battery does die, you can have a tech come in and replace the ICP with a new one. So the entire projector does not necessarily have to be replaced. Unless you wanted to go to 4k or laser...

At a ridiculous cost The laws regarding non replaceable batteries should apply

[Leo Enticknap]

For owners of Barco projectors, that is a big argument in favor of the ICP-D if and when an old school ICP dies: its certificate battery is replaceable (without doing a science experiment involving an external power supply and a soldering iron that carries no guarantee of success).

As Steve pointed out, if it's just the clock battery, that's easily fixable. Incidentally, I had a customer ask me the other day if he could use a CR2330 rather than a BR: The only BRs he could find on Amazon were in the form of a pack of 15 for $150, and didn't want to buy them, as 14 of them would likely never be used. The answer is yes, but the CR likely won't last as long: geeky details attached.

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

Pretty sure we do not have battery laws like that here, unless it's mentioned in the MFRS warranty. But buying a new ICP is a heck of a lot less money than a new projector for a theater on a budget. One could also buy another used projector, but how much life is left in it's Cert battery? I actually only had one ICP fail out of all the stuff I installed, and it was due to a nearby lightening strike at a drive in.