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Suitable Replacement for Daytona Delux USA 2 projection monitor
lilshawn:
huh, what do ya know! i didn't know such a thing was even an option! anytime i've ever seen a "short throw" projector... its a specific machine you buy for your specific application. i didn't even consider there to be a kit you could buy to just convert it. it would make sense that you would have to swap out the entire lens element to make it work, and my initial thought about just "adding" a lens was basically correct.
learn something new every day! i'm sure it will come in handy one day.
Hydrolisk1792:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on November 29, 2022, 10:20:40 am ---huh, what do ya know! i didn't know such a thing was even an option! anytime i've ever seen a "short throw" projector... its a specific machine you buy for your specific application. i didn't even consider there to be a kit you could buy to just convert it. it would make sense that you would have to swap out the entire lens element to make it work, and my initial thought about just "adding" a lens was basically correct.
learn something new every day! i'm sure it will come in handy one day.
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Yeah it was really hard to find as well! Glad I can contribute to the forums a bit. :)
lilshawn:
out of curiosity, i looked a little more into these infocus projectors. seems infocus released 2 versions of your machine... the IN112 and the IN112ST (ST being "short throw" version with the aforementioned lens)
i noticed at the time there was a shift in their offerings... (probably from complaints in their corporate sector about having to have 10 some odd feet of space from the projection surface) and a huge pile of their projectors became available in short throw versions. IN112, IN114, IN124, IN126 all released in "ST" versions IN112ST, IN114ST, IN124ST, IN126ST versions...so on.
so by the looks of things, you did get the same projector as the OP post...just the "regular" version of the lens assembly. luckily you have been able to source a replacement "ST" assembly.
Hydrolisk1792:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on November 29, 2022, 12:45:48 pm ---out of curiosity, i looked a little more into these infocus projectors. seems infocus released 2 versions of your machine... the IN112 and the IN112ST (ST being "short throw" version with the aforementioned lens)
i noticed at the time there was a shift in their offerings... (probably from complaints in their corporate sector about having to have 10 some odd feet of space from the projection surface) and a huge pile of their projectors became available in short throw versions. IN112, IN114, IN124, IN126 all released in "ST" versions IN112ST, IN114ST, IN124ST, IN126ST versions...so on.
so by the looks of things, you did get the same projector as the OP post...just the "regular" version of the lens assembly. luckily you have been able to source a replacement "ST" assembly.
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Oh nice, that is some good information. So that means that the lenses that I ordered should be some drop in replacements for the machines that I have. Looks like the same bolt pattern as the original lenses. In my opinion, as a manufacture, to remedy a problem like they were having, I would have done the same thing and just made a replacement lens assembly that just bolts right up to the original machine and just change the label at the bottom of the machine. Seems like a very cost effective approach.
Hydrolisk1792:
So I literally just turned my normal InFocus projector in to a short throw with the lenses I linked in above!! These will work out nicely!! Will make some more posts once installed inside one of my cabinets. FYI, the lenses made the picture 50 percent larger than before from the same distance away. :burgerking: