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whats6x7
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:57 am Post subject: I'm taking a break, I'll be back sometime I'm sure. |
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Well guys, its been fun. Frustrating but fun. My NEC 9PG Xtra died today. It powers up, the fans spin, and then it shuts off. I suck at electronics so I'm not even going to try to fix it. Shame too because the tubes are white. I'm going to sell the remote on eBay and then sell the projector for parts.
I never really did get any good at setting them up. I've been through about 5 in the last year. Just kept buying and selling. I think I'll just buy a cheap DLP and call it good.
Mind if I still stick around the forum anyway?
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Joust
Joined: 05 May 2006
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Location: Almonte, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Marquee 8501LC
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Fix it!!!
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Nashou66
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emdawgz1
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:33 am Post subject: Re: I'm done. |
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| whats6x7 wrote: | Well guys, its been fun. Frustrating but fun. My NEC 9PG Xtra died today. It powers up, the fans spin, and then it shuts off. I suck at electronics so I'm not even going to try to fix it. Shame too because the tubes are white. I'm going to sell the remote on eBay and then sell the projector for parts.
I never really did get any good at setting them up. I've been through about 5 in the last year. Just kept buying and selling. I think I'll just buy a cheap DLP and call it good.
Mind if I still stick around the forum anyway? |
get out!
You're worthless and weak!
dude, either fix it or get yourself a real pj, a marquee 9 or a sony 9 in. a barco 9
you'll love it!
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whats6x7
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I might look for a Marquee. What's the the broken NEC worth?
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Brooklyn
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Location: Morgan Hill, CA
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Those CRT's are valueable. The system boards, point board, and some of the other boards are desirable. The HD144 color corrected lenses are also useful. It is a shame, I just parted out my 9PG xtra with a chassis in great condition, but toasted tubes.
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jask
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Sure,whatever....
just keep the broken 9200 for a month after you buy the digital,then when you get pissed at yourself for wasting the money you can install a HVPS and get back to converging.
seriously, sorry for your troubles but this is not an insurmountable problem. However if it is..... I call dibs on the tubes
 
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Brooklyn
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If it is a power suppy problem I still have the power supply and related out of my 9PG xtra. I'll sell em to you cheap.
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whats6x7
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You don't understand. I don't want to play with it anymore. I had a Barco 708 which basically set itself up. This NEC . . . good projector but I'm just tired of it. I don't want to fix it. The Marquee isn't a bad idea. I know the remote is fairly rare. It is actually a GE FFREM10. I figure I can sell that by itself. How much should I ask for the 9200?
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Brooklyn
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You are best off parting it out instead of selling the whole projector for parts. Also in my experience from owning Sony's, Nec's, and Barcos; they are all about as difficult to setup, they just each have different user interfaces. I actually thought the Nec 9PG Xtra made centering and maxing the rasters the easiest of any projector I've had. However some adjustments like keystone-balance can take a couple tries to get a hang of. I will say the Barco had the easiest to understand convergence setup, especially since it walks you through it.
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Curt Palme
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I want the tubes if they are clean.
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deronmoped
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I still surprised that all these people looking for help never list their locations. The guy around the corner probably is a electronic guru with a 9PG too, that would love to help out. I've jumped in a couple of times to give a hand, wish I did not in both cases, but that's another story.
Deron.
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AnalogRocks
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| deronmoped wrote: | I still surprised that all these people looking for help never list their locations. The guy around the corner probably is a electronic guru with a 9PG too, that would love to help out. I've jumped in a couple of times to give a hand, wish I did not in both cases, but that's another story.
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Aww it's fun when you end up in over your head. Sink or swim, all you can do is fail or succeed ( mostly lol )
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dbaisey
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Seems a shame to part out a Extra. What lead up to it and what error code does it have? Doug
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WanMan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:21 am Post subject: Re: I'm done. |
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| whats6x7 wrote: | Well guys, its been fun. Frustrating but fun. My NEC 9PG Xtra died today. It powers up, the fans spin, and then it shuts off. I suck at electronics so I'm not even going to try to fix it. Shame too because the tubes are white. I'm going to sell the remote on eBay and then sell the projector for parts.
I never really did get any good at setting them up. I've been through about 5 in the last year. Just kept buying and selling. I think I'll just buy a cheap DLP and call it good.
Mind if I still stick around the forum anyway? |
CRT is not for everyone. DIY CRT is for even fewer. There was no way I was going to attempt to setup an NEC product. I love the colors and contrast, but let's be more financially and emotionally efficient here and get someone else to set it up.
Not everything is DIY-easy.
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whats6x7
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| deronmoped wrote: | I still surprised that all these people looking for help never list their locations. The guy around the corner probably is a electronic guru with a 9PG too, that would love to help out. I've jumped in a couple of times to give a hand, wish I did not in both cases, but that's another story.
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I'm in the northeast corner of Missouri and I'm not looking for help. Unless you want to come over and help me drag this big SOB upstairs. 
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JustGreg
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| whats6x7 wrote: | | deronmoped wrote: | I still surprised that all these people looking for help never list their locations. The guy around the corner probably is a electronic guru with a 9PG too, that would love to help out. I've jumped in a couple of times to give a hand, wish I did not in both cases, but that's another story.
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I'm in the northeast corner of Missouri and I'm not looking for help. Unless you want to come over and help me drag this big SOB upstairs. |
Sorry. The story ain't funny but your last line was.
Snag an 8500. Compared to many here with 8500's I suck at setting it up but I think I've got an image out of a stock specimen that's pleasing...to me. I'm sure it could be a whole helluva lot better but when I go into the HT I just want to shoot the everluvinshit outta something on the 360, or watch a movie. I don't get all hung up in critiquing the fun right out of it. If I were that anal I'd have beat the sh*t out of it a long time ago with a sledge hammer. I can walk in the room, ambient temp around 62 (until I turn on the heat and it warms up in an hour), turn it on, and go right to town watching a movie or playing a game. No convergence issues whatsoever...and that's ME that set it up.
I'm not technically inept by a long shot but something about the whole I before E except after C scrambles my neurons. So I muddled my way through what I think is a halfway decent setup.
Remotes are rare but if you find an 8500/9000/9500 that needs one, I have one. It's the ONLY thing DHL didn't kill when they delivered my first CRT pj almost 2 years ago.
Part the PG; sell it whole, whatever. Then find an 8500 (LC if possible) and subsidize the cost. With a moome card it'll do everything you want without worrying about it going t*ts up every time you use it.
BTW...I'm NOT saying 'Quees are so easy even a caveman could do it'...they just lend themselves easily to infinite degrees of setup. They aren't binary like some CRT pj's where it's either adjusted right and works (eg; pots being 1) or it doesn't work (being 0).
If you want, you can add MP Mods, Joust Mods and 144/145's, Marquee Maint Thread tweeks...but you don't have to. That's the beauty of the Marquee's.
Disclaimer: I'm biased.
Greg
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Joust
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If you want, you can add MP Mods, Joust Mods and 144/145's, Marquee Maint Thread tweeks...but you don't have to. That's the beauty of the Marquee's.
Disclaimer: I'm biased.
Greg |
Thanks for the plug Greg, 
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Person99
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Matt (Ridebreck) went to the gray side and still pops in. We have not kicked him out yet.
Heck, when the digis are cheap and good, I'll be going there for a CIH set up! Problem is I see rainbows on all single-chip DLPs and the LCDs all look like crap. Can't afford a 3 chip DLP or good LCoS, so the CRT stays. 
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With "yet" being the key word 
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