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Default Sahara DP3601 video projector,2006

Bright orange, 2 of these , minus the security necessary top control panel
for each, not found a pic of them yet.
15 way connector for a panel , that when removed, disables the projector.
Any chance of hacking them, there is a IR receiver lens but that presumably
would be disabled with an absent top panel? presumably most of those 15 ways
will be a diode matrix for control buttons and anunciator LEDs.
Little info found on these projectors but Google images suggests Delta and
similar model numbers maybe a related badge name. Googling the lamp numbers
has not shown up any model Xref
One lamp is physically blown, the electrode , external to the axial quartz
glass stem but in the central bright quasi-focused beam area is broken, not
actually where it emerges from the stem. Surrounding the break , and also
the supposedly working one, in that area, is a neat looking aggregation of
spikey white crystals around the conductor. I've not found an image of a new
bulb yet , but could there have been a piece of silicone there that has
degraded to silica crystals (asbestos-like)? perhaps creating a hotspot for
the lamp current and then failure, actual and potential, at that point?
Any pointers to a procedure for hacking the control-defeat function of these
top panels?