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*Sold* Infocus Projector, round 2
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DantheApe:
gah i would be so on this if this were after my wedding

should you happen to "luck" into another one like this say after the second week of november, lmk heh
facesmiths:
ok that explains a lot and yes I can see why it is a good deal I was just wondering if it was something I should be watching out for when spending full price on a new unit from the company. however it seems to be more of a "I did not read the manual so I messed up your projector that was not mine in the first place so I did not care anyway" mistake made by some one. I have read my manual and it was pretty emphatic about letting the fan run until it was off before unplugging it or anything so I never do infact I leave it plugged in a bit more too so now I have, significantly, more hours on my projector than the bulb has actually seen use of so I would not be surprised if the bulb lasts till nearly double the life span. I am still working on getting a set up to make LED replacements for projector bulbs too (LUXEON has a new one called the rebel that you can get up to 485 lumens from just one tiny board like used in the single LED flash lights and I know there is more than enough room for over 5 of these in the right configuration inside the existing bulb compartment of my infocus
ChadTower:

It's a design flaw, IMO.  If it is that important the fan should run until it no longer needs to run regardless of if the plugged in or not.  A simple rechargeable battery on the board could power the fan for quite a while without a problem.  A plausible use case should not result in hardware failure.
shardian:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 28, 2008, 09:54:53 am ---
It's a design flaw, IMO.  If it is that important the fan should run until it no longer needs to run regardless of if the plugged in or not.  A simple rechargeable battery on the board could power the fan for quite a while without a problem.  A plausible use case should not result in hardware failure.


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No doubt! Why isn't there a rechargeable battery pack on board? Hell, a compartment for a 9V battery would suffice.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on October 28, 2008, 09:58:20 am ---No doubt! Why isn't there a rechargeable battery pack on board? Hell, a compartment for a 9V battery would suffice.

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Best guess is that it's both an "economy business model" and a "portable model" so cost and size were driving factors.

Second best guess is that they didn't test use cases that would be precluded by reading the manual.
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