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gjaky
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
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Location: Budapest, Hungary
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:44 pm Post subject: Ouch! |
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My friend recently bought a supposed to be mint 6 PG xtra, with only 2600 hours, with road case, two remotes, a set of cable etc. Today I was at his place to help him setup, and check the machine, so this happens when you crank up the brightnes and contrast for 2600 hrs. note the well did alignment...
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projectors in the past : NEC 6-9PG xtra, Electrohome Marquee 6-7500, NEC XG 1351 LC ( with super modified Electrohome VNB neckboard !!!)
current: VDC Marquee 9500LC
The MOD: VNB-DB, VIM-DB
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HaydnG90
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Minty? I'd call that one toasty. Even the red has burn marks which takes some doing.....
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digitalayon
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You got yourself one nice boat anchor there!
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gjaky
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Location: Budapest, Hungary
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Curt Palme
CRT Tech
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Langley, BC
TV/Projector: All of them!
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It was more or less set up correctly according to NEC/Runco specs, but a static image will kill them every time.
If I had $.02 for every 'mint' projector I've been offered over the years... some by 'knowledgeable' people.....
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Spanky Ham
Joined: 22 Mar 2006
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Location: Comedy Central
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Lightweight! This is from an XG I bought off ebay that the seller swore to me was perfect tubes.
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Phoenixed
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Location: The mitten
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Gross. Kinda like my machine that "worked before we took it down..."
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CasetheCorvetteman
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Location: Australia
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Those ARE minty tubes!! Look at all that unused area around the edges!!
Spanky if nothing else, youd have the red and blue levels so low they should last forever while that green is in there 
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Dave Lister
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Spanky Ham
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Good one, Dave. 
To revisit the story, it was about six or seven years ago. The ebay seller told me over the phone that when he looked through the lenses all he could see was white. He then sent me a pic, but with the tubes lit. Unfortunately this was with about ten minutes left in the auction. I took a chance and lost. Luckily, I bought an XG local with a bad system board for a good price. It had excellent tubes.
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HaydnG90
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Yep, we did some crazy stuff back in the day to snag what we thought was a great 8 or 9 incher. I remember feeling bad about losing out on a $10K G90. Ended up paying $6,500 which at the time I thought I stole since it only had 800 hrs. Still needed a new green tube though, which the seller had to pay for.
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fuchs
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Location: the NL
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shouldn't the worn area be larger in the first place?
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HaydnG90
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| fuchs wrote: | | shouldn't the worn area be larger in the first place? |
Yep
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