CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

[studio]

Is this the return of a working board? Or jus to test it?

[Curt Palme]

Just to test it. Repairs are a flat rate of $250 incl return shipping. That includes testing of the defective board of course.

[Curt Palme]

Just to test it. Repairs are a flat rate of $250 incl return shipping. That includes testing of the defective board of course.

[studio]

Curt,
How much is a used working controller?

[studio]

Willima the guy I bought it from suggested that I rotate the yokes 180 and it would fix it.

[Curt Palme]

I don't have a 1209s controller in stock, so I'd need to repair yours. While you can rotate the yokes, that's working around repairing the actual problem. If the controller has one fault, it might develop others, and in theory could cause problems with the tubes, so I wouldn't risk it.

[Curt Palme]

I don't have a 1209s controller in stock, so I'd need to repair yours. While you can rotate the yokes, that's working around repairing the actual problem. If the controller has one fault, it might develop others, and in theory could cause problems with the tubes, so I wouldn't risk it.

[studio]

I have a new problem. With pj mounted and projecting. I can't get it to focus at the top and bottom with the middle focused. The top of the screen is at the ceiling. It is a 72x96 screen. I focused the top portion and then with a piece of paper went to the middle and pulled the paper forward and at 12" away from the screen the middle is focused. I repeated the above at the bottom and it was 24" away from screen to be in focus. This tells me that if focused in the middle of the screen the top of my screen would have to be 12" back from where it is and the bottom of my screen would have to be moved forward 12" to be in focus. Open for any ideas to correct this problem. The front corner of my pj is currently at 6' off of the floor. The only thing I think that I could try would be to rotate the whole tube with mounting 180°. Maybe there is tilt in the mounting and this would flip the tilt. There is room in my case to do this.

[jantje112]

Your projector is a placed a little off axis That causes the focusproblem..

[Curt Palme]

Studio called me yesterday on this. This is a SEOS projector, and while all the 'standard' 1209s chassis that I've seen that are SEOS have enough Scheimpflug adjustment on the lens assemblies to correct for curved screens, my guess is that the lenses in this unit were shimmed with relation to the LC housing, so I think the tubes need to come out and be unpotted, the shims need to be removed, and the tubes need to be installed as a normal 1209s is, without shims.

[Curt Palme]

Studio called me yesterday on this. This is a SEOS projector, and while all the 'standard' 1209s chassis that I've seen that are SEOS have enough Scheimpflug adjustment on the lens assemblies to correct for curved screens, my guess is that the lenses in this unit were shimmed with relation to the LC housing, so I think the tubes need to come out and be unpotted, the shims need to be removed, and the tubes need to be installed as a normal 1209s is, without shims.

[studio]

Just curious if anyone close to Tulsa, Oklahoma?

[studio]

I finally lowered my pj to the midpoint with my screen just to find out if I have a focus issue. With the electronic focus in the different zones of focus on the screen should I have the same amount of adjustment in the middle as in the edges? When I focus in the center zone I have quit a bit of adjustment, that is visibly. In the other zones their is a 0-99 scale but I can not see any changes on the screen. Could this be because it might not have been put back to a Barco completely? What board would control weather a function works or not?

[secstate]

[-Pjackso]

Hi Studio,
Nice to see another Oklahoman here! I'm in OKC, not Tulsa.

I have a BG808, but unfortunately I have very little repair experience on Barco’s - so I can't help.
Best of luck.

[jkruger]

I see that your lenses are mounted rotated 180 degrees from the way the ones on my 1209s are. I don't think that would be the problem but it might be easy enough to try rotating them and see if it helps. Mine is mounted very much the opposite of the way yours is, the lenses are at about a 3 degree angle to the screen.

[secstate]

[jkruger]

I think the mounting angle is the problem. Way too high in the rear.

[jkruger]

Oh Crap... I've ruined another thread...

[studio]

I curious, my focus assembly on the tube is bumping the magnets assembly, is there a way to move it back more. It is almost as sharp as possible but I don't know because it hits. Any suggestions?

[Ile]

Magnets can be moved back, but neck board clamp will still be in a way.
You need to make focus adjustment, when center focus is set to 57.

But this is not your problem, it's mechanical.

Does your lc-hardware even have adjustable Scheimpflug?
Maybe they used cheaper 1200/1209 style lc hardware with constant chambers, because projector is build for zero angle.
Actually your hardware looks like black, like constant chambers in 1200/1209.

Check my attachment...
Is there 00-05 screws and securing screws in your hardware?

If those are constant hardware, you can make a test. Add needed amount of washers (check with lens program) between lens and c-element. Same thing if you have adjustment, but it don't have enough range. This is not best way to do Scheimpflug, but test how it works...

[studio]

Ile,

What is the best test pattern or method to really dial in the focus? Did you see my post on the official screenshot thread. My pj is set at 5 degrees currently. I have pretty good focus from top to bottom. One of the things I noticed in focusing in the middle is that as I go in and out of focus is that the vertical line vs the horizontal line changes. As I go in one direction with the electronic adjustment in affects the vertical lines if I cross over and go the other way is affects the horizontal??? [/img]

[Ile]