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Hi guy's,
It's been a while since i've been active on the forums since i've moved home and the missus was insistent I wasn't allowed a projector in this house. I've worn her down by giving an ultimatum of either spending ££££ on a bigger LCD 65"+ or getting a projector which worked out at less than half the costs.
I bought a relatively cheap Optoma HD141x which would give me an 87" image at the throw distance I have. I didn't want to go any bigger as I'm projecting onto a chimney breast wall and didn't want to have to have an electric roll down screen which would hang over the edges of the wall.
I'd been wanting to do a thin bezel and seen so thought I'd bite the bullet and make a start.
I've ordered all the stuff for the screen, I went for Grey Steel 2 as i found 1 would be way too dark for a living room environment.
Yesterday I started to install the projector. I wanted this to be as neat as possible, I decided to run a flex spur from the downstairs ring main, Luckily I had the house re-wired and know where all the cables are, Pulled up a full length of floor board and added a junction box and ran my cable off of that.
I also ran 2x CAT6 for my HDMI and IR to my media cupboard, If you want more info on that you can see my house build log in the sig.
Power and Networking being ran.
Skip a lot of time ahead and I'd installed this into the ceiling downstairs and wired up.
Projector In place
45cm drop from ceiling to projector giving me a 55cm drop from the ceiling to my image on the projected wall.
*Temp image onto a sheet as I'm still waiting on the paint and tape arriving to make the screen.
*The wall behind the sheet had a cut out for my old tv, some of the image in the middle appears darker because of this.
I'd sold my TV so this had to be done to get some tv viewing in.
I've got 3mm di-bond panel to be sprayed onto when the paint arrives, This will be attached to a wooden frame with ultra strong tesa double sided tape. I plan on spraying the screen with GS2 and AAA. I'm going to have a 10mm border with deep black tape.
All of that should be done in the next few days assuming all the items arrive in the post.
It's been a while since i've been active on the forums since i've moved home and the missus was insistent I wasn't allowed a projector in this house. I've worn her down by giving an ultimatum of either spending ££££ on a bigger LCD 65"+ or getting a projector which worked out at less than half the costs.
I bought a relatively cheap Optoma HD141x which would give me an 87" image at the throw distance I have. I didn't want to go any bigger as I'm projecting onto a chimney breast wall and didn't want to have to have an electric roll down screen which would hang over the edges of the wall.
I'd been wanting to do a thin bezel and seen so thought I'd bite the bullet and make a start.
I've ordered all the stuff for the screen, I went for Grey Steel 2 as i found 1 would be way too dark for a living room environment.
Yesterday I started to install the projector. I wanted this to be as neat as possible, I decided to run a flex spur from the downstairs ring main, Luckily I had the house re-wired and know where all the cables are, Pulled up a full length of floor board and added a junction box and ran my cable off of that.
I also ran 2x CAT6 for my HDMI and IR to my media cupboard, If you want more info on that you can see my house build log in the sig.
Power and Networking being ran.
Skip a lot of time ahead and I'd installed this into the ceiling downstairs and wired up.
Projector In place
45cm drop from ceiling to projector giving me a 55cm drop from the ceiling to my image on the projected wall.
*Temp image onto a sheet as I'm still waiting on the paint and tape arriving to make the screen.
*The wall behind the sheet had a cut out for my old tv, some of the image in the middle appears darker because of this.
I'd sold my TV so this had to be done to get some tv viewing in.
I've got 3mm di-bond panel to be sprayed onto when the paint arrives, This will be attached to a wooden frame with ultra strong tesa double sided tape. I plan on spraying the screen with GS2 and AAA. I'm going to have a 10mm border with deep black tape.
All of that should be done in the next few days assuming all the items arrive in the post.
