Projector Color Wheel Repair

DLP powered projectors are equipped with color wheels. Single chip DLP projectors are clear winners when it comes to issue of motion blur and convergence that affects LCOS and LCD projectors. At some point though, projected images on a DLP projector may start to show with missing colours, buzzing, whirring or grinding noise from within the projector. The machine may boots and then switch off with blinking amber or red error warning lights. This could be due to a number of issues. Prominent among which is colour wheel and fans.

Colour wheel can become faulty for a number of reasons as listed below;

• Bad colour wheel bearing.
• Broken colour wheel segment(s)
• Dust and soot encrusted colour wheel may also produce faded or spotty images.

Colour wheels are made to spin at a preset number of revolution per minutes. When the colour wheel becomes sooty and slows down, stop spilling or spins too fast, the optical sensor sends a signal to the projector that provokes a shutdown. So if your projector has stopped booting or is experiencing intermittent shutdowns. Let us carry out a free evaluation before you go shopping for a new lamp or a new projector