Projector Lamp question?
I have a Sharp XG-P20EU projector. I have plenty of life left on my lamp, but i know some day it will die though. So, in trying to plan ahead, i'm researching for a new lamp. I need a 220W UHP lamp. Now, I know lamps are expensive, but every lamp I can find costs more than I paid for the entire projector. Can I only use a 220W uhp lamp made by sharp, or is there a cheaper lamp I could use?
It's not just a question of wattage ... you also need to be sure the geometry is the same otherwise the light won't focus or there will be improper masking or the lamp simply won't fit.
The XG-P20EU is a pretty bright projector, so I'm not surprised the lamp is a bit more expensive than average. That said, I have found prices for the lamp for my projector lamp vary between $160 and $570 ... and it took a while to find the cheaper price, so keep looking there may be somewhere selling one cheaper (The best price I found was $468 ... vs a high of over $700).
If it were me, and I'd paid about the price of a lamp for a projector that originally sold for $9000, unless I was particulalry attached to the projector for some reason not immediately obvious based on the specs, I'd be tempted to use up the lamp and buy a new projector. After all you can get 1080p projectors with far better contrast ratios for $1800 these days (and I saw a Benq 8700 with spare lamp recently for $700).
Unfortunately projectors are getting almost like printers ... you can buy a new one for less than the price of a replacement cartridge.
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