Buy InFocus SP-LAMP-006 Projector lampInFocus SP-LAMP-006 Projector lamp Product Description:
- REPLACEMENT LAMP 1500 HRS LP650
Product Description
Replacement lamp for the InFocus LP650, DP6500X, SP5700, SP7200, SP7205, and SP7210 projectors.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
didn't last
By A. Lee
I purchased this from Amazon direct (not a third party on amazon) so I'm confident it was an Infocus lamp versus an equivalent. Paid over $400 for it. It just died after 13 months. With OEM's going as low as about $150... I'm not going to invest in an Infocus one (now selling for less than $400) but still no better warranty than the third party ones (90 days). Its suppose to last 1500-3000 hrs. Calculating a generous number of hours of 10 hours a week (we use it at our church on sundays and fridays for 7 hrs a week)it should last 150 weeks.. not 56 weeks. I checked and this unit (ceiling mounted) did not accumulate a lot of dust neither which can shorten the life of the bulb. (our prior bulb didn't last the stated average neither but lasted a lot longer than this one).Update: did some more research in reviewing lamps and customer reviews of the third party lamps. I decided actually to take a chance and buy another infocus lamp rather than an 'equivalent'. In doing some reading it appears some of the 'equivalents' are exactly equivalent (least not the quality of the manufacturing of the lamps themselves). So while they work, overall they don't last as long. However, the third party OEMs units do use OEM lamps in generic housings. So with a quality lamp they should last. Only problem is many of these units end up costing as much as a genuine Infocus unit (or in the case where they were cheaper, I was not confident about that particular vendor based upon customer reviews that I want to chance it that they are truly giving me a real OEM lamp made by say Phillips or one of the other two major lamp manufacturers or giving me a knockoff). Will have to see if this new one lasts.Update 07/25/11 - After purchasing another Infocus brand replacement lamp and inserting it into the projector, it failed to light. So I ended up having to send the unit in to an authorized repair vendor so see what the problem was and repair it if it was a reasonable cost. I sent the unit in with the new lamp (just to be sure). Turns out they had to rebuild the power supply and replace the color wheel. So the lamp was not the problem. Note: one of the reasons we suspected the lamp burned out was because for a month or so before the unit went totally dead, the lamp was much dimmer. Turns out our vga cable was causing that problem. (after I got the unit back, and mounted it up in the ceiling again with the new lamp, it showed a dim image... even though when I tested it prior to mounting up in the ceiling the video was bright.) So the original $400 replacement lamp wasn't the problem after all. So I've changed the rating to four stars. I'm keeping the original $400 replacement lamp now as the backup unit while the brand new unit is in the projector. Another reason for doing this is to make sure it survives the initial 90 days (the warranty period) which it has.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Buy this name brand bulb or you'll regret it!
By Sergey
Before buying this replacement lamp for my projector, I tried one of the off-brand clones. It ran really hot, the fan was LOUD, and it clicked off after about 30 minutes of use to cool itself.I returned that, and got this name-brand lamp. It works great, and is still running several thousand hours of use later.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.Great value!
By Rick Szalach
This replacement bulb appears to be identical to the OEM bulb in the projector. Too soon to determine bulb life, but on the surface, seems like a great value!
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