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HD72 bulb hours... how long did you get....

1884 Views 14 Replies 10 Participants Last post by jopapgh, Mar 3, 2008

RawB8figure

Discussion Starter · Jan 17, 2008

Just wondering if there are any people that got proper life out of there HD72 bulbs.

Ill start 650 hours.

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RawB8figure

Discussion Starter · #2 · Feb 11, 2008

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I got about 1000 hours before the unit began to shut off after 15-30 seconds. I sent the unit to OptomaUSA and they told me the bulb was bad. 2 days later, my PJ arrived and has been working fine since then. I tend to believe it was not the bulb, but the lamp driver.

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lubmar

· #4 · Feb 11, 2008

lamp meter shows 606hr , but it counts every two hours so the real time is 1212 hours, no problems yet.

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Ikari Warrior

· #5 · Feb 11, 2008

I only got about 600 out of my first bulb before I had the shutoff issue. I had a spare bulb that came with the unit when I bought it and I'm at about the same point on that bulb. I fear for it's life.

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Devedander

· #6 · Feb 13, 2008

Right around 500ish hours bulb did the 15-30 second thing. The odd thing is I had this unit in before for something else and they replaced the light engine... I would think that would have been a preemptive fix... apparently not.

I am wondering what they will say this time... unit arrived at optoma last week so I am expecting some info soon.

BTW on optomas RMA sight to check status they want an RMA number in the form OPT-xxxxx but my RMA number had no OPT in it and was a long string of numbers only... what do you do to check status?

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jibster

· #7 · Feb 13, 2008

To check the RMA status, simply use the last 5 numbers of your RMA number.

OPT-12345.

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Devedander

· #8 · Feb 14, 2008

Thanks, that's what I thought but I just get invalid user name error no matter what I do... I will have to call for status I guess.

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lennon_68

· #9 · Feb 16, 2008

I never could get their online thing to work. When I called they said it wasn't working...

I got ~650 hours but it's looking like mine's only counting every other hour as well which would make it 1300 hours.

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lakingsx213

· #10 · Feb 20, 2008

I think I'm just about at 2 years and counting...

I would give you the lamp life but I never sent my original unit back to get the firmware updated.

Of course I have had the whole "Factory Reset" bug happens quite a few times over the course of the past 2 years but I have all my settings on a paper so it takes less than 5 min to get it back to normal.

I should have sent it back but I've just been pretty lazy and unless the bug comes up I just never remember, besides its really a pain in the butt to take it down and pack it up so again, lazy.

I think I have come up on my 2 year warrenty. I intended to send it in before the warrenty was up but I just didn't get around to it I guess, and I think I might be close if not over the 2 year mark. I need to get my reciept out and verify.

I have to have well over 1000 hours on it right now and it still looks good. Now that I say this something will happen but I guess I don't have much room to complain. If I had to guess (which I do since my lamp hours have been reset quite a few times) I'd say I'm getting close to 1500 hours.

I guess keeping my firmware broken projector has been sort of good luck

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mindgam3

· #11 · Feb 23, 2008

My bulb exploded a little after 400 hours. I am currently running the HD65, I like it more due to the higher brightness and very similar image.

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RawB8figure

Discussion Starter · #12 · Feb 24, 2008

so does the timer on the Hd72 count every 2 hours??? Also I got a new HD72 and was wondering if I should run it with the high altitude mode on. How do you know if you should run it like this. I tried it for a movie and man is it loud and annoying.

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