Projector turns off after about 30 minutes? What's wrong.

Can anyone give me an idea as to what might be wrong? I can use my projector for about a half hour, then the lamp suddenly turns off. When this happens, the power light is red and the status light flashes green. Do I need a new lamp? or what?

Timothy Sr Apr 30, 2008

the projector turns of after about 1 minute of running and sometimes it won't stay on for a minute

we tried to spray air into it to clean the dust out of it, but it didn't work

we also tried to see if the cables weren't attached all the way but they were

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Check to be sure the safety switch at the filter is not being tripped when the case and or the filter surround gets hot and expands. Thats what mine did.

Posted on Dec 22, 2007

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