Ruby / Qualia lamp, pics added. - Page 11

It was a JOKE

Hi All,

Could a power outage destroy the lamp of a VPL VW100?

I had a 1 second power outage while the projector was running.
The projector was off afterwards.
After that the lamp did not come on again. I hear the clicking/sparking of the ignition circuit, but no light.(lamp/cover led is on then)
I inspected the lamp but I can't see anything.

The projector sometimes did come up slowely, sometimes I needed to re enter the on button, but worst case it did come up after a retry.

700 hours on the lamp

Thanks,
Peter

I just had TWO of those same kind of Power Outages Thursday night.
I had my fingers crossed that everything was OK. In my CASE it did
survive.

If your starting circuit was a bit flaky in normal operations - then YES
your Power Outage could have caused Damage.

Happened to me too, lamp would not light anymore after a power outage.
Had to change it (300h :-(
May be with the Sony Hard Start Mod Kit [A1206459A] it would have started again, but unfortunately I did not get it while I still had Sony Prime Support coverage...

Is this mod (A1206459A) still available, and can you perform the mod yourself?

Thanks

Hi Forum,

I am still gathering information and trying to get my VW100 up and running again.

Did somebody recently buy a replacement bulb for the Ruby. I am ready to just replace the bulb. Buying a whole new lamp assy for 1000 Euro seems a risk, as I am afraid I will have issues with it eventually (because of the start up bug).

The projector is almost 4 years old and with only 700 viewing hours it should be able to last a couple of years.
However if the repair costs a new bulb and a hard start mod for a mere 1700 Euro total, I am afraid it sits close to the end of its economical value and a full replacement for a 4k JVC D-ILA 550 becomes in range.

Thanks

Could anyone help me with the service menu button sequence to tweak the light output? I thought I had it but cant find it, I did try it but it didnt work so if anyone can offer the order to push to enter menu and any useful tips I would really appreciate it............only had this Ruby for a few days, its my 3rd Projector but first Sony, I got a good deal on it so I went with this over a more modern budget unit. Thanks so much!

SEE the Attached Jpg Fille

thank you so much! Are there any other tweaks or secrets of benefit?

I'm not sure WHY you think you NEED this tweak.

My VW100 is MANY years old and had many Lamps already.

NO Tweaks Here.

I dont need it but it was noted so I wanted to experiment as its harmless and can be saved or not............I am new to this so just wanting to see whats out there I may not know of.

I had the crickets problem at 550hrs on the lamp. Took the lamp a part and removed the white grease and replaced with the silverartic 5 gray grease. Ran the PJ for 3hrs and so far no crickets. Also did the simple light adjust of the IRIS on #44 to 200 and improved the picture quality and brightness. Thanks for all those good advices from this thread.

Hi Forum,

My projector is still down after the power outage 3 weeks ago.
I have ordered a hard start mod kit and I am going to do the mod myself.
I will make pictures and let you all know.

I hope this will make the unit go, otherwise I will have to add a lamp as well.

Cheers,
Peter

Anybody know if you can still purchase the bulb only for the VW100? I've searched Ebay and several other retail sites but can't find anything except the full housing LMP-H400.

You mean like THIS ONE

There has been a price increase

Thanks, I found it last night too. Don't know why it didn't turn up in my first search. The seller is also including the thermal compound, but still quite a jump in cost! My local Sony dealer says that Sony is out of the LMP-H400's and doesn't know when they will have them back in stock.

I replaced the lamp in my VPL-VW100 2,450 hours ago. I just got the 50 hour replacement reminder message on-screen. The lamp is still acceptably bright, and shows no signs of dimming. It occurred to me that if the auto 2500 hour shutdown did not occur, that the lamp may be godd for another 50 or 100 hours or more. I'm considering waiting until the remaining time is a few hours, and then doing the timer reset procedure, tricking the projector into thinking that a new lamp was installed. I'm a little concerned about whether that will work, and if it could cause any problems when the lamp finally burns out. Does anyone know for sure? Thanks in advance.

John

Hi forum,
My VPL VW100 is up and running again.
The hard start mod kit solved the problem. (thanks jj for the mod description that was not included in the kit)
About a 2 hour job when performed at a slow pace tracking the steps so I didn't had any parts left after the procedure

The power outage didn't kill the lamp after all!
Now the pj starts at once.

Take care............

HEEELLLP!

I replaced the bulb in the housing of the VPL-VW100 about a year ago according to the instructions on this thread. Everthing OK until about three months ago where it just starting taking longer and longer to ignite the bulb. Sometimes up to 15 minutes. So I disassembled and changed to the silver grease. Still clicking and no immediate ignition but it shortened to about a minute or so BUT then one of the fans starting making a noise so I decided to go ahead and put two new fans in. The service manual was fairly straight forward and so I put the new fans in and reassembled. Now the darn thing turns on and I hear and feel the fans, they seem fine but I hear not clicking of the igniter. What in the world could be causing this. Any ideas of things to try before I bring it to the sony repair shop.

I would double check the fan mode in the setup someplace and make sure it is not on high altitude mode as then it is running faster and audible more so.

The fans seem fine. The Lamp will not ignite. It is also not making that clicking noise that I assume was the igniter trying to light the lamp. After about 4 minutes it shuts down and the red on/standby light is on along with the yellow cover/lamp light. I am trying to figure out how to get the igniter to work again?

I've seen stuff like that happen with fans in electronics in general when the rpm sense doesn't work. The software will send power to the fans, then try to read the rpm speed. If the new fan is plugged in wrong or wired different internally it will read zero rpm (even though the fan has power and is spinning). The software then thinks the fan isn't running and won't even try the next step (igniting the lamp in this case). See if you plugged the headers in backwards (if possible), or verify the rpm sense is wired & implemented the same as the old ones. It would be a PITA, but you could put the old ones back in and see if it strikes.

You could also try resetting the lamp timer. Normally the only reason you open the lamp compartment is to change the lamp, and you reset the timer as part of the process. I vaguely remember the reset step being a requirement on a PJ even if the lamp wasn't changed, but I don't remember if it was a Ruby. Worth a shot.

You wish No, Mr Allstate, I have no idea why the homes lightning rod was wired directly into my old PJ.

Hi, I´m trying to replace the bulb on my VPL-VW100 the only problem that i moved the valve gas screw how far away from the bulb should be, can any one help me to set the correct distance in the screw.

My Ruby just wore out it's 3rd bulb. This last one lasted for 2490 hours which is stellar compared to the first one which was less than 900. The 2nd one was replaced by Sony when my unit was in for service getting the hard fix mod thing done.

I had already purchased a new LMP-H400 as a backup (not knowing about this thread!) ages ago so today I put that in. Thinking I'd like to have another spare standing buy I found this thread and started looking around for where to buy the bulbs. Here's what I found:

http://netlink.alphasource.com/cgi-b...DRNEU92D41M45U

($595)

and

http://cgi.ebay.com/Replacement-Lamp...#ht_500wt_1138

($385)

The ebay one is clearly far better than the ~$800 it still costs to buy a new LMP-H400. I have THREE LMP-H400 units now (one in the projector, two in a closet with burned out bulbs).

Man this projector is expensive!

I have cricket sound now on my ruby. Lamp has about 600 hrs. I am interested in knowing exactly what you did and specifically what grease you used. Can you give your steps or point me to the information? I would like to see if this will work for me.

Here is one reference from the beginning of this thread

http://www.xoxide.com/arcticsilver5.html

Thank you. Anyone have some pictures or a process/steps for applying this. Not sure where exactly this should on the lamp or porjector?

Do you only READ one POST?

Check out Post 169 & 170.

You put the greese where the OLD stuff was

Also try the lamp mounting WITHOUT any grease. That worked for my Ruby.