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Author Topic: Moving color wheel from DP-3000 to 32B Martin Murray Film Handler Posts: 69 From: ennis tx Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-30-2015 02:12 AM                     Are the mounting brackets the same on a DP-3000 and a 32B for a Dolby color wheel? i want to move my 3D into my 32B. Thanks in advance.  |  IP: Logged Magnus Eriksson Expert Film Handler Posts: 121 From: Stockholm, Hägersten, Sweden Registered: Jan 2011 posted 06-30-2015 02:24 AM                     No, they are totally different /M.E.  |  IP: Logged Martin Murray Film Handler Posts: 69 From: ennis tx Registered: Sep 1999 posted 06-30-2015 03:04 AM                     just the bracket or the entire assembly?  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-30-2015 03:40 AM                     If I'm not mistaken, the DP3000 used the Dolby supplied colorwheel/bracket assembly. The DPxK-32B uses Barco's colorwheel assembly that mounts directly to the integration rod assembly and also forms the water cooled heat sink for it. There would be no place to mount the Dolby style bracket in the DPxK-32B  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 06-30-2015 05:03 PM                     Steve has it, there is no commercially available bracket for the large Dolby 3D wheel for any of the current Barco projectors. It's the Barco/Dolby combination unit or nothing. That's not to say you couldn't design and manufacture something to use that older wheel. It just doesn't exist as a product.  |  IP: Logged Sam D. Chavez Film God Posts: 2153 From: Martinez, CA USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 06-30-2015 08:28 PM                       Malco Theatres made brackets to fit Christie wheels and DFC controllers into Barco projectors. B series I believe. The reason is they wanted to do dedicated, left eye and right eye projectors. Barco does not sell Left eye or Right eye wheels so it was the only way.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 07-01-2015 03:15 AM                     In fact I saw those brackets on a dual projector setup  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 07-01-2015 03:36 AM                     The Barco/Dolby approved dual projector 3D setup uses "single-color" wheels that are still turning. As I understood it, it's to limit the burn-in on the color filter. I'm wondering how this works in such a "hack job", where you keep the disc fixed. Aren't those discs wearing out pretty soon?  |  IP: Logged Martin Murray Film Handler Posts: 69 From: ennis tx Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-01-2015 11:55 AM                     So does anyone have a colorwheel for a 32b?  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 07-02-2015 04:59 PM                     Haven't you asked your local Barco distributor/integrator? The 32B is still a recent machine and those parts should be available from Barco. Especially if your machine is still under warranty or extended service contract, I'd ask your integrator first.  |  IP: Logged Martin Murray Film Handler Posts: 69 From: ennis tx Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-02-2015 06:31 PM                     Lol if only it was that easy to get Barco parts. I think I'm going to put in a Christie and be done with it. Much easier to deal with and get parts for. Worst mistake I ever made was converting from Christie to Barco to begin with, I do regret it daily.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-02-2015 08:28 PM                     I have the exact opposite opinion.  |  IP: Logged Martin Murray Film Handler Posts: 69 From: ennis tx Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-02-2015 09:10 PM                     Christie has always gone over and beyond what I would expect and way fewer breakdowns, barco, not so much.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-03-2015 10:30 AM                     I've had zero problems getting parts for Barco and they have not needed many. Barco maintains a 24/7 support and nearly that for parts supply. If you are willing to pay for same-day freight, they'll get it to you. If you are under warranty (original or extended), parts ship standard-overnight, freight included. Christie tends to close up shop Friday evening and doesn't open until Monday...unless you are on their NOC, it would seem. So what are all of these breakdowns you are having with the Barco? I have no DP3000s that I've ever serviced so I can't comment on their reliability. The DP100 (its predecessor) definitely has had a mixed bag of reliability and thankfully the last one is out of our service, its predecessor, the DP50 we serviced for 11-years with near zero problems. The DP2000s have been relatively problem free (a couple of bad power supplies and I think one cinema controller). Now you'll get no argument from me about the old Christie CP2000 being a tank. I've had something like one LVPS go flaky and maybe an environment board. But the other series 1 Christie's are problematic. The LVPS for the ZX and M will die...sooner or later. The PCM modules are also a point of failure for them. But for series 2s...I'd give Barco the edge but both are pretty reliable. Barco is BY FAR the easiest to service though.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 07-03-2015 04:55 PM                     quote: Martin Murray Lol if only it was that easy to get Barco parts. I think I'm going to put in a Christie and be done with it. Much easier to deal with and get parts for. Worst mistake I ever made was converting from Christie to Barco to begin with, I do regret it daily. I can't speak for your location, maybe Barco's service just plainly sucks over there, although Steve doesn't seem to have any problems. My experience is more like Steve's. As long as a projector isn't EoL*, it's usually no problem to get parts for it. They might not be cheap and if you need them pronto, the shipping costs also adds to it, but they are generally available and usually ship within a few days. It seems to me you had a string of bad luck with your Barco projectors, but if part availability is a problem, I suppose it's more to blame on your supplier or integrator than on Barco itself. Also, for equipment on Priority Care, they usually provide replacement hardware either the same or at least the next day. You also can call them 24/7. At least that's what they offer over here. It's expensive, but it works. As for this particular case, I'm certain if you call Barco and ask for the appropriate color wheel for your 32B, they will come up with a part number and a bunch of distributors that can provide it for you, if yours cannot. * I once bought a spare part for a CRT projector that was about 10 years EoL directly from them, so even if it's EoL, it doesn't automatically mean they don't want to help you, although in this case, I was just plain lucky.  |  IP: Logged

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