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[Randy Stankey]

Is the plastic soft enough that you could bend three of the fingers down and give it back to him?

[Frank Cox]

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[Mark Gulbrandsen]

[requesting forgiveness for the politics]

Swapping out a light engine with a deceased green formatter in a DP2K-32B this morning, I commented to the owner that the only way of fixing it that did not involve shipping it to Belgium would be to ask the POTUS to make the time to issue a 201nd executive order: the "make Barcos work again" order. The owner replied that I had to come up with a more catchy acronym than that, or he wouldn't even answer the phone.

Why not just change the formatter on site? They are available...

[Leo Enticknap]

Why not just change the formatter on site? They are available...

My understanding is that Series 2 NEC formatters can be replaced in the field, because you don't need to disturb the DMD block in order to remove the formatter board from around it, but that Barco ones cannot, because the DMD block and heatsink is fastened to the actual board (and so removing it would destroy its alignment with the prism, thereby needing factory recalibration once everything is reassembled). That's what I've been told in all the Barco training schools that I've done. We regularly sell and install NEC formatter boards, but if one dies on a Barco light engine, the whole thing has to be swapped.

That is literally the only aspect of NEC Series 2 design I can think of that is superior to Barco's.

[Jim Cassedy]

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[Mark Gulbrandsen]

My understanding is that Series 2 NEC formatters can be replaced in the field, because you don't need to disturb the DMD block in order to remove the formatter board from around it, but that Barco ones cannot, because the DMD block and heatsink is fastened to the actual board (and so removing it would destroy its alignment with the prism, thereby needing factory recalibration once everything is reassembled). That's what I've been told in all the Barco training schools that I've done. We regularly sell and install NEC formatter boards, but if one dies on a Barco light engine, the whole thing has to be swapped.

That is literally the only aspect of NEC Series 2 design I can think of that is superior to Barco's.

You can get the formatters out of China for the 32B, and Christies. And as far as NEC goes, for me, they are the most reliable projectors I installed out of the 3 brands over the ten year period before I retired. In fact, about half of the units I installed came from MIT. They are also known for reliability the same way in Europe... NEC can also be the easiest prism.assembly to clean, if one wants wants to do that kind of work. Strong cleans NEC prisms. Also, the later Barco light engines should be almost as easy to do as an NEC.

[Frank Cox]

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