background:
Own 3 projectors / (incl. epson 8100 purchased in 7/2010 and epson 3010) Sanyo hasnt blown despite bulb hours indicating 3500hrs when I purchased and since then 2500hrs --> I suspect the bulb wasnt really "on" for the 3500hrs, but that the projector itself was in the setup it was at. Epson 3010 at ~1500hrs no problems yet. 5yr BBY extended warranty on the OTHER two projectors... this one I just had the mfr. warranty though.
Epson 8100 always run in eco mode, max ventilation on all sides except "bottom". I always keep it in eco mode even with the lights on because it's only on a tiny 106" screen that's the old DaLite Hi-Power material, mostly for personal usage of PC/TV. First bulb blew (pop/etc) at under 1400 hrs and ~11months, second one at 2400 hours and 29months. Epson replaced both bulbs -- this second as a one-time replacement as its past 24months. This second bulb did not "blow" -- by this I mean it's not discolored/etc and the projector did not shut off while it was on. It just didn't power up and lit the bulb indicator light. It looks like the post holding the filament just came unglued(?!) and the post fell over. Here's an image of the lamp:
No issues with the projected image before lamp replacement. After replacing lamp there is a bright red/magenta band on about the top 2-3% of the image and a bright blue/cyan band on the bottom 2-3% of the image. This makes the projector fairly useless for any video consumption. (Only possible workaround I can think of is if I find a way to overlay a black bar on the top and bottom portions of the screen while my PC is used for TV or movies)
Is this at all possibly a lamp problem or is it damage to the projector LCD(s) itself ? As I'm not at ~30 months I thin I'd probably be out of luck of epson fixing it if its a projector problem..
From various searching I've found limited references to possibly being heat-damage to the LCDs. This doesnt seem to make sense completely though as the image was fine before the lamp failed.... unless the projector was heating it up while trying to turn on (which the epson tech on the phone insisted I do again even though after removing the lamp I could SEE the post was fallen over).
Any suggestions on anything to try to attempt to fix the issue?
Thanks in advance for any input.
Own 3 projectors / (incl. epson 8100 purchased in 7/2010 and epson 3010) Sanyo hasnt blown despite bulb hours indicating 3500hrs when I purchased and since then 2500hrs --> I suspect the bulb wasnt really "on" for the 3500hrs, but that the projector itself was in the setup it was at. Epson 3010 at ~1500hrs no problems yet. 5yr BBY extended warranty on the OTHER two projectors... this one I just had the mfr. warranty though.
Epson 8100 always run in eco mode, max ventilation on all sides except "bottom". I always keep it in eco mode even with the lights on because it's only on a tiny 106" screen that's the old DaLite Hi-Power material, mostly for personal usage of PC/TV. First bulb blew (pop/etc) at under 1400 hrs and ~11months, second one at 2400 hours and 29months. Epson replaced both bulbs -- this second as a one-time replacement as its past 24months. This second bulb did not "blow" -- by this I mean it's not discolored/etc and the projector did not shut off while it was on. It just didn't power up and lit the bulb indicator light. It looks like the post holding the filament just came unglued(?!) and the post fell over. Here's an image of the lamp:
No issues with the projected image before lamp replacement. After replacing lamp there is a bright red/magenta band on about the top 2-3% of the image and a bright blue/cyan band on the bottom 2-3% of the image. This makes the projector fairly useless for any video consumption. (Only possible workaround I can think of is if I find a way to overlay a black bar on the top and bottom portions of the screen while my PC is used for TV or movies)
Is this at all possibly a lamp problem or is it damage to the projector LCD(s) itself ? As I'm not at ~30 months I thin I'd probably be out of luck of epson fixing it if its a projector problem..
From various searching I've found limited references to possibly being heat-damage to the LCDs. This doesnt seem to make sense completely though as the image was fine before the lamp failed.... unless the projector was heating it up while trying to turn on (which the epson tech on the phone insisted I do again even though after removing the lamp I could SEE the post was fallen over).
Any suggestions on anything to try to attempt to fix the issue?
Thanks in advance for any input.