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I have an Acer H5360 projector that's been working great for a few years. Lamp Hours are listed at about 1800, which is well below the rated bulb life of 3000/4000hr life.
What started happening recently is while we're watching the projected image, every once in a while there will be a loud pop coming from the projector. The projected screen shifts momentarily and the projected image becomes garbled with artifacts, or the colors shift and become temporarily incorrect. This only lasts for a few seconds at most, and then everything goes back to normal. Until another "pop" happens anywhere from a few minutes later to half an hour later.
The projector is in Eco mode. I've checked, and there's no obvious dust build-up that I can see. The fan is operational. It was hanging stationary on the ceiling with plenty of ventilation, never carried around and shaken.
Does this behavior indicate a bulb going bad, or is something actually wrong with the rest of the projector? I don't know, like the motherboard going bad, some capacitor being bad, or some issue with the color wheel? If it's not the bulb, I'd like to avoid sourcing an expensive replacement just to see that the issue remains.
Is this behavior a commonly known symptom of something specific?
Many thanks.
What started happening recently is while we're watching the projected image, every once in a while there will be a loud pop coming from the projector. The projected screen shifts momentarily and the projected image becomes garbled with artifacts, or the colors shift and become temporarily incorrect. This only lasts for a few seconds at most, and then everything goes back to normal. Until another "pop" happens anywhere from a few minutes later to half an hour later.
The projector is in Eco mode. I've checked, and there's no obvious dust build-up that I can see. The fan is operational. It was hanging stationary on the ceiling with plenty of ventilation, never carried around and shaken.
Does this behavior indicate a bulb going bad, or is something actually wrong with the rest of the projector? I don't know, like the motherboard going bad, some capacitor being bad, or some issue with the color wheel? If it's not the bulb, I'd like to avoid sourcing an expensive replacement just to see that the issue remains.
Is this behavior a commonly known symptom of something specific?
Many thanks.