Finally got a chance to go an unpack the projector. Wow. Its big. Compared to my ECP 4101 this thing is a monster. You certainly need at least one friend over to help move it around, this was part of the reason it took me until today to get it unpacked.
We popped the hood (ok cover, but its got a little arm thing to hold it open like your car’s trunk). Inside looks nice and clean. Almost no dust. The tubes look flawless. There is a sticker on the LVPS that has 1998 on it, and the ROM version is 1992.
The 4000 series was made between 1990 and 1994, so ’92 isn’t a bad guess at its age, but it could be earlier than that.
It powers up fine, but no image? We puzzle over this for quite a while. I have the manuals printed out, but haven’t read them cover to cover. The red CRT has a very, very dim image on it. The green ‘might’ have an image, and the blue looks completely off. This is looking into the tubes, there is no projected image.
We played around with all sorts of things. At one point my friend discovers the service buttons under the little cover on the remote. This exposes the ‘cut off’ button and the various colours. Half a minute later, we have all three tubes shooting a nice bright image.
Its late, enough for now. It doesn’t appaar to be a dud.
One last power up, and I get a HI BEAM CURRENT failure!? This concerns me, but it seems to come on again no problem right away.
Either way, time to hit the books and try to learn something about how to setup this projector.