How do I use the Sony projector?
Allen Hopkins, 14 Nov 2002
Last updated: 29 Apr 2009

These instructions will be automatically displayed on the laptops directly connected to the projectors when someone logs in.

1. Lower the screen, the controls are on the wall to the left of the screen.

2. Turn the remote ON (upper left) point the remote at the screen, then press the green power on button(upper right).

3. The orange LED on the projector should change to green.

4. Make sure the projector is set to INPUT-B to display the laptop screen.

5. When finished, power off the projector by pressing the green button (upper right), switch the remote to OFF ( upper left ), and raise the screen.

Replacing the bulb

To replace the bulb in the 540A/B projector requires taking the projector off the ceiling. To do this, push the wires up inside the channel and then undo the 4 smaller bolts and loosen the two larger bolts. Two people make this a much easier proposition.

Undo the panel at the bottom and then replace the bulb

Clean the air filter

Rehang the projector and plug it in

Reset the hour timer by putting the machine into standby mode (unplug it and replug it) Then, on the projector itself, hit reset, left arrow, right arrow, enter within five seconds.

540 A/B Conference Room Projector, North Wall

10/06

previous bulb lasted 165 hrs.

4/09

previous bulb lasted 1048 hrs

DOP Center Forum West Projector

4/09

Previous bulb lasted 358hrs

The manual says:

The lamp reaches the end of its life after about 1500 hours for the STANDARD setting, or about 3000 hours for the LOW setting in the LAMP MODE.

The bulbs contain mercury and should be disposed of by having the Hazardous Materials unit of Environmental Health and Safety pick them up as follows:

• One must first establish a chemical waste recharge account. This is done by completing a pdf on the EH&S site (http://ehs.berkeley.edu/recharge.html). Completion of the pdf entails getting a fund number from an RSO, who must also sign the pdf once you have filled it out. Put yourself as the contact person for this pick-up.
• Fax the completed pdf to EH&S at 643-7595. Keep a copy.
• After a couple of days, find the recharge account you initialized by going to http://srs.ehs.berkeley.edumplSorg.html and searching for it based on the 'org' code (second group of digits in the chart string the RSO gave to you).
• Look for your P.I. in the table that comes up as the result of your search and click on the chart string next to the PI name. (The chart string should be the same as the one you used to establish the account initially.)
• You will have the option of either starting a new Materials Packing List, or,if you've been working on one previously, returning the one you'd already started.
• Fill out all the fields on the packing list (Building, Room, Your Name, etc.)
• Click on the "Add New Item" radio button in the lower left corner.
• Since this is just for projector bulbs, you have only one item to list.
• In Item field, put something like 'expired lamp unit for Sony projector'
• Click 'Save this Item' which will return you to the packing list.
• Click on 'SUBMIT this eMPL'
• Print the packing list, sign it, and tape it to the box of spent projector bulb(s).

Staff from EH&S will come looking for you and for the bulbs to be picked up.
If they don't come around within a week, call Phil Kruse at 3-6384 to find out when they are planning to come pick up the bulbs.

Sony VPL-PX31 manual - This is what is in 540 A/B