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Barco IQ Pro G500

I am in possesion of two of these. They were removed from service at a major university, and don't seem to be too beat up or anything, but if you're familiar with these things you know that the lenses were sold separately. They are missing the lenses. I don't know why, maybe they fit something else, who knows.

I googled these up and find that they were quite expensive new. Who knows what lenses cost, I am not going to put the kind of money into them anyway. So I think getting them running is a lost cause. However someone out there might still be using these things and I don't think just throwing them out is the thing to do. I pulled one of the lamps out of one (they have two each) and also found out that they are a bit expensive. The one I pulled looks pretty good, not cloudy or anything, but of course there is no way to tell the hours without the thing running.

I would like to capitalise on these things, not ridiculous but I don't want to take twenty bucks each either. There have got to be a bunch of valuable parts in there. If not the lamps, the ballasts. Light engine. I don't think they have line doublers or anything because an LCD, even if it is HD..... who knows. Each also has a COA for Windows XP for embedded systems. Do they perhaps have a harddrive ? RAM ?

This is what I would like to know. A hell of alot of technology was involved in building these things and aside from the fact I would like to make a few bucks, I would like to see them kept out of the perpetual landfill here.

So anything you got on these things would be appreciated. A print and or service manual would be great, google seems to fail me on that.

And if anyone wants to buy them, make me a non-insulting offer and we can deal, but really unless you're near Cleveland, OH. it's probably not worth it to buy them whole. Shipping would be a killer. But parts are usually cheap to ship..........

Let me know.

J
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Jeff Urban
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You probably picked your one up the way I pick up mine. Its the ink-jet scenario over again. The bulb starts failing/fails and someone is commanded to find the price of a new bulb. Bloody hell ! , that much , we may as well go out and buy a new one. So all that wonderous technology lands up in a skip. If your lucky, find the bogus "bulb-life" reset procedure and maybe get a few hundred more hours out of it. Lenses a matter of cobbling something together, at least they're not anisometric.

ps Surely someone out there knows where to get basic compact mercury discharge lamps for something like discharge floodlight lamp prices, designed to be fan cooled. Its a bit of a work up fitting conventional floodlight lamps in the available space.

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N_Cook

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You may get some life out of the lamp, but you won't get 5000 lumens. Lamps usually stay at this rating for a few hours and steadily decline. Lamp life is usually between 1500 and 2000hours. This means that after that time period, the lumens generated will be less than

2500 total. While the lamp will fire, the picture won't be that bright.

The lamp assembly for this unit runs about $500 US. This includes the housing. The lamp alone will run around $400.

You can expect a lens for this unit to run between $3,000-$5,000 depending upon the distance for projection.

Please keep in mind that this projector is a $15000 machine that was released in 2004.

Dan

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abrsvc

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You may get some life out of the lamp, but you won't get 5000 lumens. Lamps usually stay at this rating for a few hours and steadily decline. Lamp life is usually between 1500 and 2000hours. This means that after that time period, the lumens generated will be less than

2500 total. While the lamp will fire, the picture won't be that bright.

The lamp assembly for this unit runs about $500 US. This includes the housing. The lamp alone will run around $400.

You can expect a lens for this unit to run between $3,000-$5,000 depending upon the distance for projection.

Please keep in mind that this projector is a $15000 machine that was released in 2004.

Dan

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Agreed on reducing light output. The actual contents of the bulb watt for watt is the same as a conventional elipsoidal floodlight mercury discharge bulb , they are dirt cheap. The difference is they are housed in a smaller volume envelope because they will be fan cooled, unlike floodlight use. So what it comes down to is 390 dollars for a smaller envelope.

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N_Cook

Actually I am more interested in the other parts. Lamps, who knows. I would probably just sell all four for a hundred bucks. But there are other parts in there. Maybe compatible LCD chips or something. The problem is I don't need these all apart on the bench or table figuring out who knows what. I can't seem to get a print or anything on them, except for promotional crap. The question is, looking at all this promotion, how could they be totally worthless in such a short time ?

There has got to be something worth something in there other than light bulbs. Hell those I could sell as grow lights or something. But what of the rest of it ?

J
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Jeff Urban

What is the resale value of an inkjet printer ? similar wondrous technology, much the same economics. People will not pay 400 dollars/ 300 UKP for a light bulb.

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N_Cook

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You are not likely to get prints from Barco. Their service information is kept close to the vest. I have worked on Barco projectors from the smaller versions (like yours) to the big boys (R20 for example at $250,000 each). No specific service information is available outside of Barco itself. Limited info is given over the phone for specific problem resolution only.

As far as value goes, the machines you have are good quality. You can try making them available as parts machines on Ebay for a reasonable cost. If I had some units locally and wanted some replacements parts, I'd pay up to $1000 for the pair easily. Repalcement parts by far exceed that cost. If you can state that these are "working" units but without lenses and lamps, you should have no problem selling them.

Dan

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abrsvc

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