The Official SONY VPL VW200 "Sapphire" Thread. - Page 49

Humm will have to check this "cooling setting" out, will get back to you on that. I remember someone else on this thread having similar problems way at the beginning of this thread, dont remember how that turned out but Ill try the "cooler" thing first. THX!

It worked. The cool high setting killed the noise but now the VW200 sound level is more like my old VW-10HT. Well that never bothered me anyway! Ill have to see if the sound level will change any over time but if I turn the VW200 to a low setting again the "sound" comes back. So Im stuck on High setting as is. Thanks again Joe

This sounds like hum caused by power issues in your home. Read here.

Seems to me Joe and I have a similar problem. Do not think its electrical "in the House" as I have special refrence power cables/cords, blocks, silencers, purifiers etc. (from Kimber etc.) and I have not had any problems with any of my other electrical "stuff" and where talking lots of "stuff" for many years. Not had a problem like this untill now with any of my older projectors. The only thing I might try out now is running a special power cord to the VW200 as I only have the original power cord to it as the "snap" on the VW200 would not allow for a bigger "special one". But this runs to a special block with a silencer on it, like I have on most of my electrical endings. Ill try a special Kimber power cable to the VW200 and see what happens, just for the fun of it. Where on AV Sience forum right! Seems to me that the VW200 is especially sensitive to heat. And Joe, yes I do not notice the High setting either, unless I think of it.

Tried the Kimber power cord. Well it turned out like one of those Mythbusters episodes where nothing goes exactly as planned, but you have some sort of "compromise" ending anyway. Well this is what happened. The power cord did not fit into the VW200 socket because of the "plug holder socket" (knew that before) but I thought I screw it of with the two screws holding it. Turns out the two screws hold more than the "plug holder socket" because all the socket including the AC in socket itself with the three pins came loose. Well I quickly screwed it back in place and as I was not about to take down the VW200 and tear it to peaces for this experiment. The Mythbuster would have but they are crazy anyway and dont have to pay for the stuff they destroy. Well only thing I could do now was put the shortest extension I could find from the Kimber cable to the VW200. It turnes out the Kimber cable and extension did not do anything for the "noise" and I have the VW200 back on the High cooler setting. The moral of this story being Sony is not High-End friendly cable wise (stupid plug holder) and High-End power cords will "most likely" not stop "the noise". So back to the drawing board?

Then we know power cords can not fix the "noise" problem and that some High End cables fit the VW200 but not all. VW200 owners should therefore check well the AC in socket of the VW200 before they buy their High End power cords.

God. I luv you guys but this is really funny. Trying to fix a buzz coming from inside your projector. Somebody diagnosing its coming from bad house power and someone else tring to fix it with a new power cord.

I`ll be more intelligent. JUST UNPLUG IT. NO MORE NOISE. DUH.

If you dont have a buzz dont make a fuzz

Is this the same sound as the vw100 "crickets" problems?

The only time I ever had a buzz caused by bad A/C was from a noisy dimmer switch on the same cicuit. Going to a dedicated 20amp run solved the buzz. Equipment buzz, that is .....

I have an older 200 and can report no such anomaly. As you guys imply, perhaps it is a quirk of the newer power supplies.

Well been looking at this "crickets" problem on other older VW100 threads. Yes I would say my VW200 "noise" resembles this "crickets" sound, well more like one shy "cricket" (by the way we do not have crickets where I live but some Idiots around here do "play cricket", but thats another story). Anyway looks to similar to be ignored. Seems to me VW100 owners had no way of getting rid of the "crickets" unless they changed lamps and then the "crickets" often came back. Usual quote was 300 hours for a first "cricet" attack. My attack was at 210 hours. But we in the VW200 have a simpler solution than lamp replacement, just put on the "High cooler" setting and the problem is fixed! Which brings me to the big question for all you former VW100 owners out there. Did the VW100 have a High and Low Cooler setting? If not, then why one in the VW200, but to fix those damn VW100 "crickets"! Well I for one do not belive the VW200 operating instructions that state;
High: Use this setting when using this projector at an altitude of 1.500m or higher.
I live 3 minutes walk from the sea for crying out loud. Maybe Sony build this as the first airplane projector. Nope the operation instructions should state; "High; "Cricket" killer. Than me and Joe could go on with our lives knowing Crickets are part of the Sony landscape and they have a cure for it, namely High cooler Well guys did the VW100 have a High and Low Cooler setting.

You get to the Sony manual site. Bang. Looked it up. The VPL-vw100 has a high altitude mode when ze manual sez the fan spins with more turns.

See no mention on AVSF of High Cooler seting fixing anything with the VW100 Cricket problem, but it does with the VW200 "noise" problem. I guess the VW100 owners would have tried that out rather than change lamps, right! So I guess these problems are similar but not the same. Well, I still have Rattle and hum on Standard setting, maybee I should talk to U2 about that.

It starts after 5 min. in my case, so I just have High setting on all the time now!

Whats your lamp time now?

Hope nothing obvious happens at 210 with yours, like it did with mine. I did not notice anything untill then. Whats the story with the power supply in yours anyway?