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racerxnet · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 362 Location: Illinois

Hi Everyone,

My friend has a Barco Helios reality light valve and we are looking for a manual for this thing. We cannot find much information on this at all. Any links or info would be appreciated.

MAK

ecrabb · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:11 pm Post subject:

Mak, are you looking for something specific in the manual? The Helios is the same vintage and the chassis looks just like the BR 6300 DLC series. They even seem to use all the same lenses, so they'd probably be pretty similar as far as function and menus and such, I'd imagine. The 6300 was pretty popular, so that manual should be easy to find.

Look for the Barco part number for the Helios when you're looking for manuals, too - R9001970.

Cheers,
SC

EDIT - Here's a 6300 manual:
http://www.cineversum.com/downloads/tde/BPP/Manuals/Owners/R5975879_06_Owners.pdf

racerxnet · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 362 Location: Illinois

Ecrabb,

Thanks for the link, I was able to find the same manual as you provided. It seems that there is a convergence problem with the Red chip and I read at AVS that there is x-y axis adjustments on this. According to some posts, the Red and Green are aligned to the blue, which is static. There is not much information on the Barco Reality Helios projector. So far I am not impressed with the picture on this unit. If it has to be sent in for convergence, I doubt it would be worth the money. I could be wrong, so chime in and let me know regarding this model. Barco does not list a manual for this particular projector.

Thanks,

Mak

betel · Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2009 3:01 am Post subject:

Low light output but the lamps are rated at 6000 hours versus 750 for the Reality 6300. If you need any 6300 parts, I have plenty except for the polarizers.

cweaver · Joined: 12 Aug 2010 Posts: 3

I do have one new (in the box) 120 Watt UHP lamp pre-aligned for max. light output
Typical lifetime: 6,000 hours
Lamp used in the following BARCO products
Barco Helios LCD Projector
R9840940-Barco

I also have three Barco BCD Helios projectors for sale. One works fine....the other two power up but then shut down.

Helios BCD R9001970
Includes Lenses - QFD (1.27:1) R9840400

I also have one new remote control for the projector. I would like to get rid of the whole lot ! ! ! ! !

Deepspace · Joined: 25 Oct 2010 Posts: 8

Hey cweaver, can you pm me your contact info or post it in a reply I have Helios and want to know bout ur machines... thx!

cweaver · Joined: 12 Aug 2010 Posts: 3

Sure. By email is cweaver@citlink.net......