Tempest
Distinguished Member
My mind had been working again (not always a good sign!)
This thought came to be, and wondered what others views were on it.
1: The AE200 (and poss many other projectors blow their heat out the back.
2: You need to give plenty of distance between the projector and the rear wall to avoid heat build-up
3: After a couple of hours with it running in a small room space with 1,2,3 people in the room there's gonna be a LOT of very hot air up there high in the room (projector sucking back in hot air)
4: Many people with small rooms would like to position the projectors nearer to the rear wall.
So......................
How about this as an idea:
From your local trade supplies merchant you can buy plastic ducting (a little like drainpipe but it's about 100mm wide and 50mm high. You can get straights and bends.
So why not run a bit of straight into your loft (or wherever out the room) then where the rear of the projector is put a bend.
The projectors outlet can be slid almost right up against this end of pipe.
In the loft (or wherever) you connect some ducting to this ducting (you buy a convertor piece that converts the oblong into 4" dia pipe, and fit an electric fan (90 cuft.hr) and either leave it there, or carry the pipe on to the outside.
So..... You have a fan running MIDWAY along the ducting that's creating a suction in the pipe that's sitting almost right up against the exhaust fan of your projector.
Turn this fan on, then the projector and any heat it instantly sucked away out of the room and vented where you like.
Total cost probably less than £30 with a bit of DIY and you are taking most of the heat away out of the room.
As it's creating a vacume (albeit slight) in the room you will be sucking fresh air into the room (under doors etc) which would be cooler. Hence it seems a win win situation, and you could probably have your projector only a few inches away from the rear wall.
As this new fan (approx 90 cu/ft hour) is in the loft (or wherever) then there should be no noise penalty.
What you think ?????????????
This thought came to be, and wondered what others views were on it.
1: The AE200 (and poss many other projectors blow their heat out the back.
2: You need to give plenty of distance between the projector and the rear wall to avoid heat build-up
3: After a couple of hours with it running in a small room space with 1,2,3 people in the room there's gonna be a LOT of very hot air up there high in the room (projector sucking back in hot air)
4: Many people with small rooms would like to position the projectors nearer to the rear wall.
So......................
How about this as an idea:
From your local trade supplies merchant you can buy plastic ducting (a little like drainpipe but it's about 100mm wide and 50mm high. You can get straights and bends.
So why not run a bit of straight into your loft (or wherever out the room) then where the rear of the projector is put a bend.
The projectors outlet can be slid almost right up against this end of pipe.
In the loft (or wherever) you connect some ducting to this ducting (you buy a convertor piece that converts the oblong into 4" dia pipe, and fit an electric fan (90 cuft.hr) and either leave it there, or carry the pipe on to the outside.
So..... You have a fan running MIDWAY along the ducting that's creating a suction in the pipe that's sitting almost right up against the exhaust fan of your projector.
Turn this fan on, then the projector and any heat it instantly sucked away out of the room and vented where you like.
Total cost probably less than £30 with a bit of DIY and you are taking most of the heat away out of the room.
As it's creating a vacume (albeit slight) in the room you will be sucking fresh air into the room (under doors etc) which would be cooler. Hence it seems a win win situation, and you could probably have your projector only a few inches away from the rear wall.
As this new fan (approx 90 cu/ft hour) is in the loft (or wherever) then there should be no noise penalty.
What you think ?????????????