CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

stereodave70 · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Bloomington, IL

Thats right, the only reason I know the guy is because our daughters play together. His daughter spent the night here and loved our theater....compared to theirs. She then told her dad about our projector. Then he came and asked me if I knew anything about repairing them, wich I know very little. Then I found out his is digital......I know nothing about them. I took a look anyway. It is an "Epic Sound", model "Epic 990". He said they were watching a movie and the bulb went out. They replaced the bulb, but no help. The fans run. I looked inside and saw nothing noticably burnt. I measured voltage across the bulb, but now that I think about it, it was his automotive DVOM. It probably turns on in DC mode and I did not change it to AC, but it said 115 volts. I was hoping someone might be able to tell them something better than what I told them. "It's disposable....just get a new one" I was joking around of course, but I told them I would check.
Anyone have any ideas???

Thanks
Dave

beun · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 676

Sounds like a white van projector to me.

stereodave70 · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Bloomington, IL

I think it was too.

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

First let me say that you never test voltage at the lamp socket. Test instrument damage and personal injury can occur.

With a no light issue even after a lamp change can indicate many things. Some units have a lamp door switch and if the switch is bad or the door not properly installed can cause a no light. There is also a thermal switch on the lamp housing and if it went open from hgih heat it may not of closed and again would be no light. Or even a fuse in the power supply or ballast.

Those are the simple possibilities. Other wise could be a bad ballast, power supply or main board problem. Also a bad fan.

Wild shot would be a bad new lamp but unlikely.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 12:14 am Post subject:

I actually have a white van digital here. It's worse than the Epic Sound one. THis one has NO brand name!

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 4:05 am Post subject:

Does it look like this:
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/sys/2672356601.html

stereodave70 · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Bloomington, IL

Sort of looks like that, but some differences. Inputs are on the other side, lens is centered out the front, I don't know if it had a TV tuner in it or not, I know it had speakers, if you want to call them that. They looked like maybe 1 1/2" x 3" (don't know what that is mm mmm metric) lol. Still waiting to hear to back from them on the trap/bulb door, it was off when I got there, so maybe that's all it is.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:55 pm Post subject:

stereodave70 · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Bloomington, IL

Well they put the cover back on the bulb and still nothing. I didn't see any fuses when I had the cover off. I told them about the thermal switch, but I don't know if they will do anything with it. Is it worth having it repaired?...I've never even a cheap digital in action. I'm on my 2nd CRT and love it !!! and it was cheaper. I only paid $300.00 for my G-70.....well and $700.00 + for new blue tube...and $400.00+ for IFB 1080p card....and soon VIP 3D.......does it ever stop ?

macgyver655 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8508

I wouldn't mind taking a look at it, unless Curt wants to.......

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:01 am Post subject:

It's all yours... yuck! Smile

stereodave70 · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Bloomington, IL

Well, two of my daughters stayed at the new friends house last night, wait , what time is it,ok Friday night. Went to pick them up tonight and got roped into bringing it home. My daughters and I all went to our first hockey game tonight. Our town now has a professional hockey team, this is their first season, Bloomington Blaze WOOHOO, they lost 2-6, but we had a good time. So I didn't look at till like 12:00pm.....12:30 I had it working?????....OOOPS, I fixed it...that's what we say when we fix an intermitten problem on a truck and don't know what wire we touched that fixed the problem. OR...is there a timer involved?

drice1234 · Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 1309 Location: Allen, Texas

Now your in trouble. All of your daughters friends parents will be bringing over their broken electronics for you to conduct a healing on.

stereodave70 · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Bloomington, IL

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4899 Location: Flower Mound, TX

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:30 pm Post subject: Re: My daughter's friend's dad

stereodave70 · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 138 Location: Bloomington, IL

So something like this I'm guessing:
http://youngstown.craigslist.org/ele/2599763436.html

or this:

http://loudspeakerusa.com/images/pdf/EPIC-990-PDF.pdf

Yep, Thats the one. What a piece of crap!!!. Like I said I got it working, but I finally tried playing something through it. Would not sync with HDMI, next easiest option, composite. Mad

YUCK Why would he even bother!? I'm gonna put it back together, hand it to him, and like Dave said,"give it to him straight", that he got scammed, it works now, but expect it to quit out again. Then invite him to see what a real PJ can do. Well actually that's pretty mean...he doesn't even have a room big enough for real set up, big house, just a bunch of small rooms.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:37 pm Post subject:

INteresting spec sheet, they dare put up 1080 resolution. Mind you, there's no 'p' at the end. Smile

I'll bet it's a 480p set. Did you see pixellation when you looked at the image?

Person99 · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 4899 Location: Flower Mound, TX