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HomePresentation DevicesProjectorsInFocus SP-LAMP-006 Projector lamp |
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 didn't last Apr 14, 2011
By A. Lee
I purchased this from Amazon direct (not a third party on amazon) so I'm confident it was an Infocus lamp versus an equivalent. Paid over $400 for it. It just died after 13 months. With OEM's going as low as about $150... I'm not going to invest in an Infocus one (now selling for less than $400) but still no better warranty than the third party ones (90 days). Its suppose to last 1500-3000 hrs. Calculating a generous number of hours of 10 hours a week (we use it at our church on sundays and fridays for 7 hrs a week)it should last 150 weeks.. not 56 weeks. I checked and this unit (ceiling mounted) did not accumulate a lot of dust neither which can shorten the life of the bulb. (our prior bulb didn't last the stated average neither but lasted a lot longer than this one).
Update: did some more research in reviewing lamps and customer reviews of the third party lamps. I decided actually to take a chance and buy another infocus lamp rather than an 'equivalent'. In doing some reading it appears some of the 'equivalents' are exactly equivalent (least not the quality of the manufacturing of the lamps themselves). So while they work, overall they don't last as long. However, the third party OEMs units do use OEM lamps in generic housings. So with a quality lamp they should last. Only problem is many of these units end up costing as much as a genuine Infocus unit (or in the case where they were cheaper, I was not confident about that particular vendor based upon customer reviews that I want to chance it that they are truly giving me a real OEM lamp made by say Phillips or one of the other two major lamp manufacturers or giving me a knockoff). Will have to see if this new one lasts.
Update 07/25/11 - After purchasing another Infocus brand replacement lamp and inserting it into the projector, it failed to light. So I ended up having to send the unit in to an authorized repair vendor so see what the problem was and repair it if it was a reasonable cost. I sent the unit in with the new lamp (just to be sure). Turns out they had to rebuild the power supply and replace the color wheel. So the lamp was not the problem. Note: one of the reasons we suspected the lamp burned out was because for a month or so before the unit went totally dead, the lamp was much dimmer. Turns out our vga cable was causing that problem. (after I got the unit back, and mounted it up in the ceiling again with the new lamp, it showed a dim image... even though when I tested it prior to mounting up in the ceiling the video was bright.) So the original $400 replacement lamp wasn't the problem after all. So I've changed the rating to four stars. I'm keeping the original $400 replacement lamp now as the backup unit while the brand new unit is in the projector. Another reason for doing this is to make sure it survives the initial 90 days (the warranty period) which it has.
 Infocus SP lamp - 006 Counterfeit Feb 28, 2011
By John M. Mirgeaux
This unit sold as OEM, but reality was not. Good copy but after 20 hours of use replace lamp message on screen and Infocus' procedure / support to correct ineffective assume due to copy status. Now either live with or replace with true OEM.
InFocus Lamp-Be forewarned! Feb 02, 2010
By Christopher Serpico
I just installed the InFocus Lamp as a replacement. It works fine, but be sure to remove the cellophane covering the circuits near the fan on the lamp or it won't work. It took me 4 trys before my teen-age son discovered what was causing the fan to fail. This really should be noted in the installation instructions.
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