They say that men think about sex every 6 seconds, well with me it isn't sex I think about it's projectors!. Yes it is that bad! I am constantly checking luman lab and all in box every spare second I have to see if there are any updates. I probably spend more time reading elkens ceremic lamp thread than I do with my poor girlfriend who I live with! When I am in college I spend most of the time looking at their tft displays and pondering if they would be suitable for our needs, easy to strip etc when I should be doing work. It has got so bad that when i am lost in thought staring into space my girlfriend would say "thinking about projectors again".... And the other day when I was in the doctors surgery I was wondering if the wall was white enough to produce a decent picture...

Yes.

lol I am having the same problem. I don't have enough saved to get all my parts, so I sit here and think how I could set it up to make it better, what i'll use for a screen, if I should do an AG removal, ect..

I read the forums around 20 times a day I think. lmao, I quit playing World of Warcraft so I could keep up on here! Haven't played it in 29 days... /flex

I felt that way for a long time,but after Katrina things kind shifted away from the PJ ......... For now.

Last time I went to luch with my wife, I spent most the time wondering how the got the reflective stuff on the bottom of the light bulb...I cant pick up a lense without thinking if it would be good for a PJ...My supervisor caught me oggling an OHP because I wanted to check out the optics...

Sad really...but at least Im not out with strange women...

Maybe we should have "PA" meetings...

Hello, welcome to Projectors Anonymous, I'm Capt_kirk and I'm
a projectaholic.

I've yet to start, so i'd just be a 'wanna-be projectaholic'

Yay! I'm glad I'm not alone

Hello, my name is Kristoph and I am also a projectaholic.

[quote name='Kristoph' date='Oct 2 2006, 05:27 PM' post='173077']
Yay! I'm glad I'm not alone

Hello, my name is Kristoph and I am also a projectaholic.


(Everyone together in a drawn out, unenthused tone...)
Hi Kristoph.

You don't have to have actually built a projector to be a projectaholic. Just thinking about it all the time and planning it , and figuring out where to get parts, and wondering about if you want to go split or unsplit fresnels, and noticing how reflective the curb paint is and if it would make a good screen, and trying to find spectrum information on a bulb you are thinking about trying.....

I was a projectaholic for two years before I ever built one.

Tgreenwood

heh, guess I am... ahhhhh!

I can give up any time I like.

A good self portrait,, but where's da cap

Well, just check your garage.

Even though I've not been able to scrounge the time to work on my projector for weeks I still think about it constantly. It's a nice mental diversion if nothing else.

I have thought of nothing else since i have found the idea for the diy pjs. It all started about a month ago when i saw a post on hack a day... from thier it was toms post and from thier i arrived here at LL my house of worship my synagogue my altar my temple my sanctuary my little happy place to go to when my wife beat me unmercyful. Good sweet lord I want to climb to the top of the highest mountain and squeel at the top of my lungs lie a litle school girl Lumenlab's I love you and I want the whole world to know you and you alone have saved me from the cold dark clutches of small tiny tv's that cost to much and the bad credit that goes along with them....

so ya i think about LL and diy pj's abit

Am a DIY aholic

Check posts as soon as I wake up and after each class- go to class think about pj, DIY potatoe cannon,

lazer, DIY mp3s, ect.

I built bows last year, I think i will build a hovercraft my senoir year to drive over our memorial lake that is

not suppose to be swum in. They can't get mad if I'm not swimming, but hovering.

I get irritated when I'm in lecture and the pj is hotspotting :angry:

the pj breaks down I give advice to the teacher.

I think this is all Brian's fault for making my life better!

Especially AZ and Simul8er for condensers and lamps.

You just don't "choose" to.

But yes, this thread is great. I get in trouble from my fiance' ALL the time for checking LL too much and working on projectors.

I'm in dire need of help -- before I take the film projectors apart at the theater where I work, to discover their secrets!!!

Yeah I'm the same with all DIY basically. My gf calls it my "Nerdy Time". Its the girls fault I tell ya. Before a gf, Everything i think about projectors, i would think about a girl. Which would would render the best enjoyment, which would be easier to strip, and and constantly looking for any possible upgrade! No, I've been dating my gf for 2 years now, she knew the type of person i was from day one, so this is nothing new. Hey it's this or alcoholism. Either way, it'll drive you broke.

Actually the two can be combined with relative ease...

Hello, my name is x_25 and I am a projectaholic.

I am constantly looking at anything that is somewhat white and wondering if it would make a good screen. Last time i wnt o walmart with my family i made a be-line for the fabrick section. I hace spoted a lens at 50ft away though a croud and had to go check it out. (was a rear projection tv lens, guy wanted $25 for it and it just wasnt worth it.) I think my wors problem is that i spend at least 4 hours a day on LL.

haha, yeah with relative ease for sure, but not with relative success!
"DUDE, look at the arc i can make from the leads of my ballast!" <-- (great party trick BTW )

My light source is on its way.
I am going to make some FS mirrors this weekend.
I started striping my screen.
I spent a good portion of last week working out HTPC solutions Vs. a tuner box for my LCD for WAF compatiblility.

I measure my LCD at least once a day for some strange reason.

I don't have a problem.

You just keep telling your self that, what ever helps you sleep at night . Really though I have been hooked on LL from day one, my gf tried to block the site on my laptop because I spent to much time on it (top that), but now shes cool with it because who doesn't love a 100" screen?

You won't say that when you think about making a 200" screen

175" isn't big enough ???

Guess I need to upgrade.

might as well make the upgrade worth it, go 300"

edit; you may need a new house for that...

Just use the side of a neighbors.
I'm sure they won't mind.

Well I'm finally glad someone gave this a name finally , Hi my name is yappypappy and I am a projectaholic. Is there another forum for this problem or can we just discuss this here.And why did you have to mention 300 inch screen ,,, Dam you ninhow.

Damn, Im stretching the limts with a 196 screen....300?

Where would I sit to avoid whiplash?

In space

I was thinking the backyard....

I think Arizonavideo's projector can do 300" plus if i remember. There was a picture where the projection was as tall as his house. And i am only going to have a 113" projection, but that will be in my bedroom and watchable from my bed. Breakfast in bed with a move maby?

Have you found your bed yet? Last i heard you were in the midst of cleaning, found a few UEO's. And had the leaning tower of tubs collapse.

Actually, i burried my bed so i can work on the other side of the room, The tubs have moved, my desk has moved and i am working on making space for my bookshelf and setting up my stereo so i can watch movies on my projector again. I am beginning to go threw the symptoms of projector withdraw.

when i was 12 years old, my room looked like that. I'd be confined to my room until it was clean. Id spend months at a time in there. Until one day my father came in with a bucket and a shovel. I came home from school, my room was clean, and there was 11 trashbags full of my stuff on the front lawn. Needless to say, I kept it reasonable from that point on.

yeah obsession ,no big deal ,, obsession ,no big deal... I am trying to find a new reflector and I have been to ikea about 50 times following those dam arrows and I even know the short cuts and I still can't find this reflector you guys are talking about and use , I have been to every kitchen store there is and cannot find find something I like with a complete sphere. I have the bigger bulb ...so it has to be big . The one I have now is just a bowl but it does show marks on projection on white screen ... where where where... oh and I do have the canadian catalogue for ikea if someone can point me to a page.. thanks... obsessorss.sssss

this is a perfict topic... i've been obsessed since we had to pay what ever it costed to get in here..

the wife "your not paying that for something you wont follow"

well hunny

been here more than a year and still freaking out about
blowing my 300w 120v bulbs in my mini z (the first tescorp helped me out with)

me obsessed, lets see. 120 enclosures built, four projectors in the house, two on the bench now for other members. a 10.6 in the works so I will have five projectors here. lets not forget PJ1 which has a layer of dust on it as it was retired by the Pro-V. a 1/2" thick file folder filled with design drawings, lenses and fresnels on my desk, bulbs and ballasts on the floor, enclosure parts everywhere else. me obsessed, maybe. addicted definetly.

Good Gawd,
I can be obsessed with DIY PJs? Is there an exorisism? I cant be obsessed I only got one done, two 10"ers in testing phases. and one psone in planning stages.


Can we nominate someone for a chairman? If so I want to nominate vonneuton he has a PJ that the mirror turns 360 degrees LOL

nope... not at all, not me... are you crazy, this has got to be the most pointless question ever... yes im very obsessed... lol

Hello, my name is iPO and I'm definitely a projectaholic. I've been a member for almost a year now and I've pretty much been on this site everyday since I joined.

I've lost many hours of sleep thinking about projectors. I get all my ideas right before I go to sleep. I end thinking so much about something projector-related, that I am more awake and alert lying in bed than when I was stumbling upstairs to bed, half asleep.

Another thing... I now know the layout of both hardware stores in my area so well that I could draw you a map of their floor plans. This is due to my wandering the aisles getting ideas and looking for parts that will work with the build. I am at either store at least once a week.

It is definitely an addiction.

i would have to say im addicted also its becasue its so much more rewarding (and cheaper )than just going out and buyiong one!!

Hello.

My name is cregan.

And I'm a projectorholic.