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Hi Film-Technicians! I was curious if you could put a DP2K-32B or DP2K-37B LLU into a DP2K-19B projector giving the projector 31,500 or 37,000 lumens, respectively, instead of only the 17,000 or 23,000 lumens from the 17B or 23B LLU kits? Has any one tried this or know if it can be done?
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It is a reasonable question. I have not done one of the LLUs as I could never justify its cost, particularly when one considered they are putting it into a well-aged projector that likely will need some sort of light engine repair before the LLU needs lasers. When I ran the numbers...if you catch the S2 projector in year 6 or 7, then you could make the numbers work, particularly on the larger systems and particularly since they allowed you to bump the extended warranty out to 13-years...effectively catching the projector a ½ life rather than 2/3rds to 3/4. You'd know that you are going to get 6-7 years on your investment. Just about all of our S2 projectors have now crossed the 10-year mark...you can buy a lot of xenon lamps for the price of an LLU.
I think where you may run into an issue is how the LLU works in that it fools the xenon projector into thinking it is working with xenon ballasts still. As such, it is going to want to ramp the DP2K-19B to just the virtual 3KW range. The only way you can change this is with the SIM card on the Signal Backplane. That contains the serial number and model number.
From what I can tell, your only options are to get the "14B" or "17B" and maybe the 23B kit for yours. The 32B series will have different AC input wiring too. It only offered 3-Phase whereas the smaller (lumen) projectors just had single phase wiring. There is no way they are going to approve changing that as it would get them into UL/ETL (and similar agencies around the world) issues.
Notably, Barco took the LLU off of the most current price sheets. My guess has to do with our current tariffing climate and how volatile it can be. They also removed the parts section and they are now priced at time of order. -
I installed a few of these. Not daunting but tricky. And a few could not use the new SIM card, as I recall older ICPs would have to be replaced - but it all worked except it had a red light for missing LPS and still identified as the original model.Comment
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As Steve said I think the SIM card would be the biggest issue, The funny thing is I also noticed they removed it from the price sheet but I keep getting facebook ads about it!
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