Hi every one. I thought I might post some pic's of my projector as I build it. Thank's brain this is the so much fun. Here is my enermax fan and norpro bowl ring. Had to cut it a little.

Here is the bowl on the ring.

Now here is the ballast and cap. I mounted the cap up about 1" off the ballast after the pic.

Looking good so far!!

Here is the Benq control panel installed. Thank god for the dremel tool.

Hi flyboy and thanks. Your panel is on it's way. I insured it for $350.00 good luck.

Here is the lamp installed and the metal flashing on the ballast. the wiring is not done yet.

This is my striped Benq 557S with lots of ground wires installed. It is built like a tank you cannot go wrong with this baby. It has no edge conectors on the sides and the ones on the bottom are very strong. but still be very careful.

where do y'all get these NORPRO bowls? I want one. Maybe i could have someone send me one? Thanks for the help.
Looks great madmax! Keep it up.

Hi mccamp82 and thanks for the kind words. Dave aka "lamps" is going to be selling the norpro bowls very soon. But what about the rings???????Lamps?

Nice Job, ..... Looks good

Fire that thing up man.

you know you close when you can taste the silicon in the chips

Looks great! Your mouth must be watering waiting to fire that up!

2ndSeason

Awesome, thanks Jack! I'm looking forward to seeing your pj finished almost as much as seeing mine finished...

That bowl looks great, by the way. I was thinking about using my icd cream bowl (like joe's) just without the lightbox, but I think you've convinced me to get a Norpro when lamps gets them in stock.

Here are my rocker swiches installed one is for the lamp and one is for the lcd and fan. They are $2.69 each from Radio Shack. Rated for 125v ac. I just drilled a 3/4" hole with a paddle bit. They fit nice and tite.

Umm I don't see any switches..

Brain are you going blind? just kidding my computer froze up and I had to reboot.

Looks really good. The pictures are very helpful. Showing every little detail about how you setup the Norpro and everything. I can't wait to see the final results.

Here is the wiring done. One fuse is a 6 amp fast blow for the ballast and one is a 1 amp fast blow for the lcd and fan.

Next pic showing the 12v d.c. transformer for the fan on the left covered with flashing.

More flashing to cover the wires.

Hey it Works

This is for brain and lustra. If your not on the IRC your missing out.

supermadmax,

This is a great project thread! All this help is most appreciated. You're doing a super job! Everything is neat and clean.

It looks like all the same equipment I'm using, so that part is going to be a huge help for me. I really like the size of you pictures and the content is great too!

Thanks a lot!
Mark

Here is my fan cover. It is a dryer vent from Lowe's it cost $2.47. It is light weight and works great. I used my dremel tool to cut some plastic off the back. This pic is with the fan off.

This pic is with the fan on full blast. No problem with air flow and I don't think my cat will get his "paw" into the fan

did you choose that cover to block light leaks too?

i was going to use a plain old grill on my fans but if a lot of light comes out i might try something different.

Thanks Mark for the kind words and yes jeh It will block the light very well. This is another reason I installed it

How much light leaks out the back when using a reflector such as the Norpro?

Lookin Good Supermadmax!

I agree, looking real good!

Nice camera work too

Cool I didn't realise that, I haven't examined mine (just stripped it and put it in a box!)

I should be able to just silicone the edges into the metal frame then, right?

...I meant to ask, did all those ground wires come wired to the boards already, or did you add them? My boards are still in the metal case, see.

Hi eye i added all the ground wires. If you have a voltmeter set it for continuity and check each screw hole to screw hole with it. I used one ground wire to each board accept the small green video board which has one jumper ground wire on it. Very critical.

I am surprised.



I expected the sudden charging of the capacitor would snap a fast blow fuse. If it does in the future, I see no harm in using a 'slow' blow fuse. The difference in response times is minimal. I don't have any real figures, so I won't post them, but I think the slow ones still react within a second, rather than near instantly.

The fast blow fuse works just fine.

Almost done I am Just waiting for my glass. The shop messed up and put the stamp on the tempered glass :angry:

The beast

here's my digi temp from gemplers.com with alarm and flashing leds. My vga cable is going to go through the same drilled hole.

Wow, you have twice as many screws on the bottom than I do. You could probably bounce that box!!

crap, i went and i bought some cool rocker switches that look like yours except they have a led on them

here is the link

http://www.bigfootcomputers.com/Merchant2/...gory_Code=600.1

am i screwed, it says 12V on the side. i never read the radio shack part of your post

Sorry but they will not work. You need switches rated for 120vac.

ya i figured that out when the switch started smokin.

fire!!! fire!!!

Here is a pic of the fresnels in glass and the lcd installed in the box. The fresnels slide out for easy cleaning.

First test pic w00 The cam is only 1.2 mp the pic on the screen is awsome:D Thanks brain and lustra

Next pic 1.2 mp cam no pause on the dvd player. Totaly Awsome!!! Best thing I have ever built

Max,

Awsome job man I hope mine comes out as good as yours.

Cheers,
Lee

looks great max, well done!