You will likely get lots of suggestions recommending you look at other projecter with more suitable throw rates etc but assuming you are set on the 5700, I would think your only choice is to mount it below the height of the cross-beam and then angle it up slightly to whatever your desired screen height is. You will then have to keystone the picture to compensate. For some this is a no-no. For others it is not really noticeable. That is up to you.
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Installation help Infocus 5700
Hello everyone,
I will soon be purchasing my very first FP for my newly (mostly) constructed dedicated HT.
Based on the advice I've read in threads here over the past 6 months, I've left the construction of the front wall and stage area to the end. Still, I have to make choices with respect to the location of wires and whatnot for the room. I'm expecting to buy an infocus 5700 and downloaded a resource from infocus on determining distance to mount etc. The problem is that I have a beam extending 11" from the ceiling and 11' back from the front wall in an 18' long room. Accordingly, my projector will necessarily be behind the beam (necessitating a longer tube to allow for a ceiling mount). My questions are:
a) How low would I have to mount it if the mount was 16' from the front wall? Can it be mounted so that the bottom of the lens is just below 11" or would I have to go lower?
b) The soffit over my screen (well, wall really) has to be built to hold my center channel so I need to know how low that should come down (again, I was thinking 11"). The infocus spreadsheet suggests that the screen be mounted over 20" from the ceiling if I use their mount (which would be only a few inches off the ceiling.) If I added 20" from the 11" beam height then my screen would seem to be awfully low to the ground (ceiling height is 93").
c) I was planning on sticking my servo 15 on a 7" stage under the screen. this could be too tight if I have to have the screen so low.
d) screen width is expected to be around 87" and height 49" at 16:9 for about a 100" diagonal.
seating distance to screen will be ~ 11' for the front row and 14' for the second row.
Any help or suggestions regarding how to set up my soffit and front wall to accommodate the 5700 would be most appreciated.
I will soon be purchasing my very first FP for my newly (mostly) constructed dedicated HT.
Based on the advice I've read in threads here over the past 6 months, I've left the construction of the front wall and stage area to the end. Still, I have to make choices with respect to the location of wires and whatnot for the room. I'm expecting to buy an infocus 5700 and downloaded a resource from infocus on determining distance to mount etc. The problem is that I have a beam extending 11" from the ceiling and 11' back from the front wall in an 18' long room. Accordingly, my projector will necessarily be behind the beam (necessitating a longer tube to allow for a ceiling mount). My questions are:
a) How low would I have to mount it if the mount was 16' from the front wall? Can it be mounted so that the bottom of the lens is just below 11" or would I have to go lower?
b) The soffit over my screen (well, wall really) has to be built to hold my center channel so I need to know how low that should come down (again, I was thinking 11"). The infocus spreadsheet suggests that the screen be mounted over 20" from the ceiling if I use their mount (which would be only a few inches off the ceiling.) If I added 20" from the 11" beam height then my screen would seem to be awfully low to the ground (ceiling height is 93").
c) I was planning on sticking my servo 15 on a 7" stage under the screen. this could be too tight if I have to have the screen so low.
d) screen width is expected to be around 87" and height 49" at 16:9 for about a 100" diagonal.
seating distance to screen will be ~ 11' for the front row and 14' for the second row.
Any help or suggestions regarding how to set up my soffit and front wall to accommodate the 5700 would be most appreciated.
