VGA cable open?

You can say that again. Ever tried it on a heavy duty cable like on a Sony

20SF monitor? Fantastic fun, much easier to transplant a cable form a duff monitor in that situation, or buy a 5 BNC to 15 pin DSUB, cut the BNCs off and fit the cable inside the monitor. I sympathise with you having to fit a new plug.

Dave

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Good job! I guess I hadn't seen replacement VGA connectors. I would have had to splice a short piece of cable with a connector already attached. Messy, and perhaps not exactly up to standards, but hey! Lynn

Radio Shack at least used to sell them, HD-15 connectors. I replaced one once on a monitor, it was a royal pain but it worked.

Ray, Cables in conference rooms take a beating. We get our share of bad cables and bulbs. We have breakout boxes on the conference tables with short VGA cables plugged into them. Replacing a 4 foot on the table versus pulling new cables tgrough conduit. The cables on the table take a beating. Some rooms go through 2-3 cables a year. We don't seem to get the rated hours out of some projector bulbs. Some seem to make the

2000 hours but some less. We can't pin it down to any make / model. How do you find the life of these expensive bulbs ?

Yep, same thing here. We attach "shortie" cables to the fixed ones with gender adaptors so the instructors can't booger up the hard-to-replace ones in the wall. I've seen three failed Calrad brand molded VGA cables recently... either a bad run or just cheap construction. NO more of those.

It varies quite a bit and we can't tell the worst offenders ahead of time either. Some projectors sit in rooms that are open to outside air and suck a lot of dust into their tiny filters. Those (Proxima DP9295 is one) need to be cleaned every two weeks or so. The occasional lamp explosion doesn't seem to repeat with a new lamp, so I must assume it's just a random failure. They push those lamps pretty hard and some are just not up to it while others of the same type still work fine at end-of-life. We can't predict how long they will last. I have to say that the majority of ours do make it to their rated hours.

Ray

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Ray,Thanks for the reply. We are finding similar problems ! Ever seen a brilliant person try plugging in the VGA connector (D shaped) backwards ? They get it done too, amazing what it does to the pins ! Sometimes we starighten out the pins and it works. We do the gender adapter too ! We have some projectors that require a filter cleaning every 150 hours. It's a pain keeping up with them as they need a filter reset as the lamps do. We have some people that keep resetting the lamp timers until it won't fire anymore or the lamp "blows". The filter message requiring the cleaning / reset is a good idea but those units never seem to have dirty filters ! We have some units that the filters get clogged and overheat / shutdown. We can't figure that one out either as some areas / models seem to clog sooner than others. We seem to get the life out of most bulbs but some just don't make it. We gave up trying to get warranty replacement on defective bulbs, suppliers just don't believe they fail before the service life or figure we are pulling a fast one. We have seen at least 5 bulbs premature fail in the 2-3 years we have been servicing these dataprojectors.

They overheated due to dirty filters. We have more projectors than we can service. They don't get the filters cleaned because we can't get to them. So, the run until they stop ! Take Care