How do I use the Sony projector?
Allen Hopkins, 14 Nov 2002
Last updated: 23 Aug 2011
These instructions will be automatically displayed on the laptops
directly connected to the projectors when someone logs in.
1. Lower the screen, the controls are on the wall to the left of the screen.
2. Turn the remote ON (upper left) point the remote at the screen, then press the green power on button(upper right).
3. The orange LED on the projector should change to green.
4. Make sure the projector is set to INPUT-B to display the laptop screen.
5. When finished, power off the projector by pressing the green button (upper right), switch the remote to OFF ( upper left ), and raise the screen.
Replacing the bulb
The bulb is a Sony LMP-P201, which runs around $225-$300 each. Spare bulbs are in the 540 A/B projection booth.
To replace the bulb in the 540A/B projector requires
taking the projector off the ceiling. To do this,
push the wires up inside the channel and then undo the
4 smaller bolts and loosen the two larger bolts.
Two people make this a much easier proposition.
Undo the panel at the bottom and then replace the bulb
Clean the air filter. BTW - the filter should be cleaned
every 300 hours. If the filter is torn, then buy some new ones:
Rehang the projector and plug it in
Reset the hour timer by putting the machine
into standby mode (unplug it and replug it)
Then, on the projector itself, hit reset, left arrow, right arrow, enter
within five seconds.
540 A/B Conference Room Projector, North Wall
- 10/06
- previous bulb lasted 165 hrs.
- 4/09
- previous bulb lasted 1048 hrs
- 9/10
- Replaced 540 A/B North Wall projector with 540 A/B West Wall projector. Replaced bulb, which had 967 hrs.
- 12/10
- previous bulb lasted only 93hrs. The bulb shattered while in use. It was a non-Sony bulb.
- 5/10
- previous bulb last 422 hours.
DOP Center Forum West Projector
- 4/09
- Previous bulb lasted 358hrs
The manual says:
The lamp reaches the end of its life after about 1500
hours for the STANDARD setting, or about 3000
hours for the LOW setting in the LAMP MODE.
See http://ehs.berkeley.edu/pubs/factsheets/55electronicwaste.pdf for disposal procedures.
The bulbs contain mercury and should be disposed of
by having the Hazardous Materials unit of Environmental Health and Safety pick them up as follows:
- One must first establish a chemical waste recharge account. This is done by completing a pdf on the EH&S site (http://ehs.berkeley.edu/recharge.html). Completion of the pdf entails getting a fund number from an RSO, who must also sign the pdf once you have filled it out. Put yourself as the contact person for this pick-up.
- Fax the completed pdf to EH&S at 643-7595. Keep a copy.
- After a couple of days, find the recharge account you initialized by going to http://srs.ehs.berkeley.edumplSorg.html and searching for it based on the 'org' code (second group of digits in the chart string the RSO gave to you).
- Look for your P.I. in the table that comes up as the result of your search and click on the chart string next to the PI name. (The chart string should be the same as the one you used to establish the account initially.)
- You will have the option of either starting a new Materials Packing List, or,if you've been working on one previously, returning the one you'd already started.
- Fill out all the fields on the packing list (Building, Room, Your Name, etc.)
- Click on the "Add New Item" radio button in the lower left corner.
- Since this is just for projector bulbs, you have only one item to list.
- In
Item field, put something like 'expired lamp unit for Sony projector'
- Click 'Save this Item' which will return you to the packing list.
- Click on 'SUBMIT this eMPL'
- Print the packing list, sign it, and tape it to the box of spent projector bulb(s).
Staff from EH&S will come looking for you and for the bulbs to be picked up.
If they don't come around within a week, call Phil Kruse at 3-6384 to find out when they are planning to come pick up the bulbs.
Remote
The Sony VPL-PX31 manual says
that the remote is a RM-PJM610. That remote is no longer made, we have used the RM-PJM17 successfully.
Sony VPL-PX31 Documentation
- Sony VPL-PX31 manual - This is what is in 540 A/B
- Sony VPL-PX31 Base Exploded View
- Sony VPL-PX31 Cabinet Exploded View
- Sony VPL-PX31 Chassis1 Exploded View
- Sony VPL-PX31 Chassis2 Exploded View
- Sony VPL-PX31 Optical Unit Exploded View
