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Author Topic: Ballast error ? Shlomo Rubin Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Tel-Aviv, Israel. Registered: Jul 2012 posted 10-21-2013 09:55 AM                        Hello there my friends... I have a CP-2000ZX christie projector and when i turned it on today i had an error (attached picture) according to the manual i'm supposed to restart the device and hope for the best. no luck. any idea what/who should i do/pray to ? thanks in advance..  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-21-2013 10:18 AM                     If you have a UPS in your system, the 220V power to the UPS may be disconnected (breaker off) and that will give you this error. There is a communication cable plugged into the ballast, but I can't imagine it has come out since it is screwed in (DB9)...the other end is in the light-engine compartment and may have issues. Alternately, you may have had a ballast failure, in which case, you'll be buying a new one since the ZX is no longer in warranty.  |  IP: Logged Shlomo Rubin Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Tel-Aviv, Israel. Registered: Jul 2012 posted 10-21-2013 10:30 AM                        i've seen a manual on how to remove the ballast and saw the cable you are talking about, indeed seems unlikely. thanks for the info! i shall check it out, and re-post. again... thanks so much.  |  IP: Logged Shlomo Rubin Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Tel-Aviv, Israel. Registered: Jul 2012 posted 10-21-2013 12:28 PM                        i have replaced the ballast and still get that error... any help please ?  |  IP: Logged Stefan Vogels Film Handler Posts: 48 From: Aarle-Rixtel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands Registered: Jan 2010 posted 10-21-2013 03:28 PM                     I would go for a change of the pcm board. It is likely to fail communicating with the ballast.  |  IP: Logged Shlomo Rubin Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Tel-Aviv, Israel. Registered: Jul 2012 posted 10-22-2013 02:36 AM                        replaced the pcm board still doesnt work, might it be the motherboard ? or could it be something wrong  |  IP: Logged Shlomo Rubin Film Handler Posts: 15 From: Tel-Aviv, Israel. Registered: Jul 2012 posted 10-22-2013 04:14 AM                        after playing with all the cables i found that a cable connecting the two ballast serials was fried, replaced it.. life's awesome again.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-22-2013 09:11 AM                     what fried a serial cable? presumably too close to something hotter than it should have been?  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 10-22-2013 09:27 AM                       Or, there is heavy current flow thru a serial cable for some reason we don't yet know.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-22-2013 11:12 AM                     If that was the case, more than the cable would have fried.  |  IP: Logged

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