Official Panasonic AE2000 thread - Page 125

Sounds like you're losing a signal. I'd check cable connections.

Do you have a DVR? If you see something like that, try rewinding and play again, see if it happens in the same place. Sometimes it's the digital TV signal.

Good question, I do have a DVR. However, its happened once or twice while watching a movie too. That being said, I checked my cables to see if the connection was bad and didnt really find anything. Havent watched since then so Ill report back.

One other thing I should check is the fact I have my HDMI cable running up through my attic. Whats the chance that an animal of sorts might have bitten or chewed into it?

What's a good price for a used ae2000u with 300 hrs thanks.

I think I just sent you an email about your projector, if its posted on CL.

What did you upgrade too?

Looks like it was just conicidence, the person I CL was a scam.

PM me what you want for your AE2000, as I'm in Mountain View

Ok, so I finally took apart my pj today to clean out the annoying hair in front of the lens. At the same time I made sure to check all the connections to and from the pj.

After setting it all back up I watched a few programs on my DVR. The blackouts happened again. Whats weird is that while it goes dark, I still hear the sound. So somehow Im getting a video loss somewhere for that second. Also Ive tried rewinding and cannot reproduce this happening at the same scene. I have my dvr going to my 3808 via HDMI and then HDMI out to my pj. Based on the fact that I still get sound, I am deducting that the HDMI to my receiver is fine from the DVR. It must be the HDMI from my 3808 to my pj that is off somewhere.

Any thoughts?

Anyone here ceiling mount your projector with the Chief IC Universal Mount? I'm looking at the holes on the projector and the four arms on the mount and don't see how this is going to work. Any info is helpful.

Also, when you see x screen size at y throw distance, is that a physical limitation of the projector or does the picture just not focus or look right?

I know they're simple questions, but I'm new to this whole FP world, but DAMN I never knew what I was missing!!!!!

Ok, so I ended up taking apart my PJ yet again because that barely visible hair came back again. Unfortunately, I cant seem to figure out where it is and using an air gun I seemed to have moved it but not REmoved it. This is extremely frustrating as I am at my wits end and dont want to send this thing out for them to tell me they cant see it.

Are there any secrets to actually taking the lens part out completely without taking apart the whole mother boards?

what mount are you referring too?

this one?

http://www.projectorpeople.com/acces...hief-rpa_u.asp

Whats the going rate for a used ae2000u with about 650 hours with 3 year extended warranty these days?

Hi
I got in too some trouble when i try to connect a Sony BDS350 to my system via hdmi. No picture or sound. Just some flickering green noise on the screen.
When i turn of the projector the sound works ok. When i connects the hdmi directly from the sony to the projector picture is ok. My reciever is a yamaha rx-v1800 and it has a mediapc and a hdpvr connected. They both works superb via hdma, also on the higest resolutions.
Anny suggestions would be helpful

BRG Roy

I'm kind of wondering this as well...

I've found one with about 200 hours on it in a city just a short drive away and I'm wondering if I should pull the trigger. What do these go for on the secondary market nowadays?

If I could pick up an AE2000U for $1000 flat do you guys think that's a decent deal? It seems pretty good to me. The bulb has just under 200 hours on it.

I would buy one in a second for that.
Warren.

This is what happened to me. I sent in my form for my warrany extension, but heard nothing back. I called them about it and they said they would send it. But I only got some free rental whatnot that is useless to me.

Also, a dust blob report: I have a ceiling mounted projector that got a lot of dust after about 6 months. Not all of it could be removed with the standard cleaning method I've seen posted, so I sent it in to get fixed. It came back and after another self-cleaning all the dust was gone from the picture. I also attached a filter to the underside intake (facing up when ceiling mounted). However after another 6 months the dust was back and wasn't going away after my attempts to open it up and blow the dust out. Another trip back to Kansas (just inside my warranty that they didn't extend) and the dust was gone again. This time I decided to try mounting it upright without the added on filter. Several months have passed and there is only one tiny dust speck that is barely visible when the picture is completely black, which is much better than it has been.

So my advice: Don't mount this projector upside-down!

When I got my AE-2000 last summer, I avoided using an inverted mount because of the problem documented on this thread where one or more of the three color filters would slide out of position because the tops of the fiter brackets (when mounted right-side up) were not metal like the other three sides but were simply a piece of tape across the open edge. Turn the projector upside down and the tape is now all that's fighting gravity. Heat the tape - by using the projector! - and a filter may slide out of position.

I decided instead to mount it right-side up. Little did I know that I was also, by this simple ruse, avoiding the other common problem: dust blobs, which RandomEngy has now correlated with inverted mounting as well!

On page 112 of this thread, in post 3338, you'll see the simple, cheap, and easy solution I found: wire-frame shelving, sold by many hardware stores and home decorating places under the name Metro (mine is actually a similar brand that looks just like it but has dimensions just different enough that the parts don't interchange). The assembly is simple: the corners of each shelf are hollow cylinders with inner dimensions a little larger than the diameter of the four poles it sits on. Each pole has a groove every inch or so along its length. A pair of plastic pieces that look like Darth Vader's helmet fit around the pole. They have a ridge that seats into the groove, and their outer diameter is narrower on top than the hole in the corner of the pole, widening enough as it goes down so that at the bottom it is too wide to fit into the hole. The weight of the shelf thus squeezes the two plastic pieces together, wedging the ridge firmly into the groove. It is rated to support 60 pounds per shelf - a lot more than the projector weighs!

To readjust the height of a corner of the shelf, you hammer upwards on it from below to lift it off of the plastic shells, freeing them from the pole, so they can be aligned with a different groove.

The poles simply stand on the floor. They have rounded rubber bottoms, which are threaded for fine height adjustment. You need to use at least two shelves (I have my second one at the bottom) to make the structure form a rigid rectangle. It costs $50-$100 for the poles + shelves, and assembles in about 15 minutes.

Here's a link to the post I made with photos of my setup, focusing on the shelving, and showing the ceramic tiles I had lying around that I put under the projector's feet so they wouldn't slip between the wires (anything similar would work): http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0#post14444130

PS The photos show my amplifier under the projector. That worked until I lowered the projector to shoot upwards under an underhang between the projector and the screen instead of down from behind it - this let me put the image a few inches higher up on the wall.

The problem was that the projector ended up only about an inch over the amplifier, which kept losing one of its channels from a bad solder joint caused by heat prostration a few weeks later!

Now I have my disk player - which doesn't need as much ventilation - under the projector, and I keep the amplifier off to the side!

Might as well be scientific.

A quick poll of those who have had dust blob problems:

Was your projector mounted right-side up or upside-down when the dust blob appeared?

Mine was present out of the box. It was such a pain getting it set up (before I noticed the blob) that I haven't wanted to take it down and send it in for service... and I'm not necessarily feeling adventuresome enough to take it apart and take care of it myself. I've just been living with it.

I too purchased my projector in Summer of 08 and have passed the 700 hrs mark with no dust blobs. Shelf mounted in the dusty basement!

After reading reviews of the 2000, hours of thread discusion good and bad $1000.00 bucks seems like a bargan. I'm very happy with mine with nothing to compare to.

A little help on the bulb.

I wasnt paying attention and just hit 2000 hours on my panny. Little did I know it shutsdown now after 3-5 minutes. I have not ordered a replacement bulb, but I will do so in the next day or two - is there anyway to reset it for now? I cant even watch TV as its got some kill switch in it going off.

This has been a great unit - would buy again at the original price point and certainly at current/discount/used pricing. Never had one minute of trouble with it. 1080p @ 120" bat cave

^^^nm I RTFM and found it

Hit menu, scroll down to options, highlight lamp runtime and hold enter for 3 seconds. Then you'll have to select OK to confirm it.

EDIT: D*mnit! If I'd only waited another minute...

Had my panny 2000 for about 8 months and have around 1400 hours. I now notice a flickering...kinda bright dim bright dim bright dim...Most don't notice but now I am noticing more and more...what could be the problem? thanks

I had this exact problem at almost the exact same bulb life and short of "confirming the flicker", the normal warranty coverage wouldn't do anything. thankfully, I have the extended warranty/bulb replacement plan and a new bulb fixed the issue.

unfortunately, that's probably your only option (replacement lamp). there's some evidence that it's a slight voltage issue in the lamp that will "burn off" in around 40 hours of use. this is discussed in the earlier pages of this thread. however, this issue was usually seen in the VERY early hours of a new lamp and would "burn off" before 100 hours. this tells me that the issue I had, like the one you're having, is different. I got a new lamp and I'm about 500 hours into a new one and everything seems ok with the new lamp.

Are you running your projector in eco mode? If so it's possible the arc could be jumping from spot to spot, causing a fluctuation in brightness. If this is the case running your projector in normal mode for about 80 hours or so should resolve this.

http://archive2.avsforum.com/avs-vb/...&&#post5820302

Does anyone here know what the HDMI-expanded option does as opposed to the Normal setting. It seems the brightness and maybe the color changes a little when I toggle between the two.
I am using the Oppo BDP-83 and was trying to recalibrate the PJ. What should this setting be at, or is it just personal preference?

EDIT:
Just found this on Panasonics website:
NORMAL SIGNAL LEVEL is YCbCr 16-235 bit format, which is the format used for distribution of content (Cable, satellite, HDDVD,DVD,Blue Ray). EXPANDED SIGNAL LEVEL is RGB 0-255 bit format. This is for mastering content onto D5 tape or into a high end computer editing system from film or HD source capable of RGB 0-255.

A lot of people have said they like the look of Expanded. But above it recommends Normal for Blu ray?

I personally use expanded and then recalibrate everything around the new look. If you look back through the thread, somewhere there's a good guide for calibrating with this method. On mine it gives a bit more brightness without sacrificing solid blacks. It's NOT considered the "correct" way to do things I guess but I love the calibrated picture.

I guess Ill just have to calibrate for both and see what I like.
I was just wondering if there was a "correct" setting.