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Jeff Urban Jeff Urban is offline
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Default 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