HD23, 5652 hours on the unit, 82 hours on the current bulb.
I can hear the blower make the dreaded bad bearing grinding noise that bad computer fans make. I get the fan failure message anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes after powering it on depending on the room temp and humidity that day I guess.
So I ordered a new blower from China on ebay (it's all I could find). Month later, put the new one in and get fan failure as soon as I turn it on even though I have visually verified that it is running. So it get out my DMM and put it in Hz mode and check the pulse output and it's 0. I bench test the factory fan and it shows about 265hz when running it on 12v. I oiled the factory blower and reinstalled it and got about 10 more minutes of run time out of it. I got the ebay seller to refund me and ordered another one from China from a different seller. Month later get it installed and the same as the first. Fan failure as soon as I turn it on.
Am I missing something or do all these Chinese fans have a defective sense output? I read the service manual and even tried the Calculate W_factory procedure.
Is there any alternative to the factory SUNON GB1245PKVX-8 that I could use? I can't even find anything at Mouser.
I really want to save this projector, even if that means coming up with a way to bypass the fan detection (since the 2 new fans do blow, just don't have a proper sense output). The color is still perfect after all these years and I'm in no position to buy a new projector since the pandemic put my business out of business causing. I was not planning to get a new one until I can afford a 4K DLP w/Laser light source which will be quite a while thanks to the pandemic.
Any advice on where to get a proper working blower or how to override the auto shutdown would be appreciated.
I can hear the blower make the dreaded bad bearing grinding noise that bad computer fans make. I get the fan failure message anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes after powering it on depending on the room temp and humidity that day I guess.
So I ordered a new blower from China on ebay (it's all I could find). Month later, put the new one in and get fan failure as soon as I turn it on even though I have visually verified that it is running. So it get out my DMM and put it in Hz mode and check the pulse output and it's 0. I bench test the factory fan and it shows about 265hz when running it on 12v. I oiled the factory blower and reinstalled it and got about 10 more minutes of run time out of it. I got the ebay seller to refund me and ordered another one from China from a different seller. Month later get it installed and the same as the first. Fan failure as soon as I turn it on.
Am I missing something or do all these Chinese fans have a defective sense output? I read the service manual and even tried the Calculate W_factory procedure.
Is there any alternative to the factory SUNON GB1245PKVX-8 that I could use? I can't even find anything at Mouser.
I really want to save this projector, even if that means coming up with a way to bypass the fan detection (since the 2 new fans do blow, just don't have a proper sense output). The color is still perfect after all these years and I'm in no position to buy a new projector since the pandemic put my business out of business causing. I was not planning to get a new one until I can afford a 4K DLP w/Laser light source which will be quite a while thanks to the pandemic.
Any advice on where to get a proper working blower or how to override the auto shutdown would be appreciated.
