A friend just gave me a Sharp-Vision model XV-P10U projector with two burned out lamps. He sent fora lamp, and they sent him a burned out one (after he paid for it a new one!) He called them about it, and they said to send it back and they would send him a good one, but just then He fell sick with CAncer and din't follow through, Now that was more than ayear ago. He's better now, but the projector isn't.
Anyway, no way am I going to pay $300.00 plus for a bulb for this thing. It's not just a bulb, but the bulb along with it's brackedt, etc. And they say it only has a 75 hour expected life, and is very fragile. If I'm going to use it, I will be using it outside in Migrant labor camps in Mexico - and going over some awful roads to get there, etc. I'd be buying a bulb every week!.
The original bulb is stuck into its reflector with some sort of heat resistant cement, and wired through the reflector to its specialized plug. It was a 300 watt metal halide bulb. I have no idea what voltage it might be. I dug the old bulb out of the reflector, and have a nice half inch (aprox) hole right in themiddle of the reflector through which I can mount a bulb if I can find one that will fit, and do the job. I have a salt-flour-water mixture that gets very hard, and should serve to cement another bulb in place.
What about one of those automotive headlight bulbs that plugs into the back of some cars headlights? Or one of those long shaped bulbs that belongs to some very bright trouble lights? Or... Any ideas?
Will it work to use a bulb that is powered from the twelve volt battery of the car instead of from the projector itself?
Whose been experimenting with retrofitting a cheaper bulb into some of these outragesously expensive applications?
Thanks,
littlejoe
Anyway, no way am I going to pay $300.00 plus for a bulb for this thing. It's not just a bulb, but the bulb along with it's brackedt, etc. And they say it only has a 75 hour expected life, and is very fragile. If I'm going to use it, I will be using it outside in Migrant labor camps in Mexico - and going over some awful roads to get there, etc. I'd be buying a bulb every week!.
The original bulb is stuck into its reflector with some sort of heat resistant cement, and wired through the reflector to its specialized plug. It was a 300 watt metal halide bulb. I have no idea what voltage it might be. I dug the old bulb out of the reflector, and have a nice half inch (aprox) hole right in themiddle of the reflector through which I can mount a bulb if I can find one that will fit, and do the job. I have a salt-flour-water mixture that gets very hard, and should serve to cement another bulb in place.
What about one of those automotive headlight bulbs that plugs into the back of some cars headlights? Or one of those long shaped bulbs that belongs to some very bright trouble lights? Or... Any ideas?
Will it work to use a bulb that is powered from the twelve volt battery of the car instead of from the projector itself?
Whose been experimenting with retrofitting a cheaper bulb into some of these outragesously expensive applications?
Thanks,
littlejoe
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