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rabies_70 · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:08 am Post subject: Was this worth the 20.00 US?

Guy on Craigslist posted a Barco 800 Data with the iris for 20.00. He said yes, just 20 bucks...someone save this from the land fill. OK I'll bite. No contact phone# so I emailed him my number and told him I'd take it. He calls me like 3 minutes later and tells me I can come pick it up right now if I want. I figure so what if its toast its just 20 bucks. Get there its a little dusty, the iris mirror is broke oh well. Load her up bring it home. Plug it in, turn on power , little red light comes on, and I realize I know nothing about Barcos....looked through the lenses tubes look ok, took off lenses, tubes looked REALLY OK. Put it back together came back here, browsed the manual, found run time.... 129 hrs....what am I doing....apparently collecting CRTs...heres some pics

derfla · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 547 Location: eastern ohio

Good buy. those tubes do look good.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:10 pm Post subject:

I'd get the power supply and video board mods done to keep them in that good shape...

rabies_70 · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject:

Thanks Curt. I was reading here late into the night on doing just that. Hopefully my moderate soldering skills will be good enough. Thanks for posting all the info by the way.

Vibe · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 164 Location: SoCal

Tubes do look nice, but definitely more than 129 hrs of use on them (I'd say anyway).

rabies_70 · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:09 am Post subject:

Goofy update....I decided I am going to hang this unit in my "office" and use it hooked up to my PC for my R/C Airplane simulator Real Flight G3.5 a bit excessive I know but man will it be fun. I picked up a Da-Lite Model C matte white 72" like new for 45.00 and a Barco CM-100 Pulley mount system for 99.00 on fleabay....thats going to be so much easier than my G70 fiasco. Forgot in the original post to mention The IRIS 800 that was included for the original 20.00. It was in its original packaging, wrapped with the manual and the mounting hardware attached to a piece of wood. I assumed it was some hokey original owner thing turns out thats how Barco packaged it for shipping as the manual tells you to unmount it from the wood board prior to using...

Anybody else fly R/C airplanes???

Heywood Jablome · Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 1548

klover · Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 124 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Ouch. Not worth $20.
Tell you what, I'll give you...uh...$10 and take this terrible deal off your hands Smile

Nice find.

dbaisey · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

Is this the model that the polarity switch falls apart? The only one that I repaired was that other then retubes. Not a Barco person. Doug

Moose · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 788 Location: Minnesota

CZ Eddie · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 1601 Location: Austin, TX

LUCKY!

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject:

JustGreg · Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 3098 Location: Kenosha, WI

I picked one up as a freebie from SavageHenry in Milwaukee. Curt is familiar with it; he should be...it came from him. Thumbs Up

I haven't done a thing to it other than break out one side of the professional kick ass crate it's in. Arne just set it down into the crate with the Unistrut attached and the pj made itself part of the crate so no other way to get at it.. I don't know bupkus about Barco's either but it came from Curt so I'm assuming it's had the mods done to it. No auto iris tho. Bummer but low hrs....around 145 IIRC.

Anyway, now I have somebody I can go to for answers (Ray, buddy, ole pal) while you're in the same learning curve as I. I plan to install it in a 16x14 room that's currently used for storage so that the wife can have a workout room. I doubt I'll ever go in there while she's working out tho....she wants it to be able to display her old collection of Richard Simmons workout VHS tapes. Shocked

MY EYYYYYYEEEEESSSS!!!! Laughing

Great snag Ray. How many pj's are you up to now? Laughing

Greg

rabies_70 · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:01 am Post subject:

Up to 4...plus a host of amp,s preamps, speakers, prontos, cable,s processors, parts, the bug bit me bad

As far as helping you out, no prob, but I am dripping wet behind the ears in CRT knowledge.....even after the thousands of hours it seems like I sit in front of this computer and in the theater "fixing it"

Speaking of countless hours staring at this monitor....I know I read something about doing the g2 killer mod and the power supply mod but I cannot find it again...I am sure it is operator error, but no matter how I search for the info I keep getting unrelated crap.....can anybody point me to the correct posts??