Smart UF75 "Glowing"?!

[solitaire89]

Hi all,

We've had a Smart set up from an Academy that's sadly shut down. We don't have any of these on site at present so I have nothing to compare to, but there all appears to be an ominous orange "glow" inside the projector when it's on. Obviously you can normally see some light when a projector is running, but this looks more like a "heat" glow than projector bulb glow. Having said that, there's no smell of burning or what I would say is excessive heat. Is it normal or am I about to cause a full evac the building?!

[NB9457]

I know this isn't entirely helpful, but over the years we've tried several Smart projector products and for us, they've always been pretty rubbish, I've noticed this in other schools too, quality is very poor.

 

You sure the glow inside isn't just light escaping from around the lamp's enclosure? It will look more orange within projector as they're different to your normal halogen lamps, most are arc/gas lamps

[solitaire89]

Thanks NB9457 If I had my way we wouldn't be using this kit, but as the saying goes: Beggars can't be choosers!

 

This is what's throwing me - it's more orange than I've seen in any other projector. Am tempted just to run it, at least it's not raining here if we do end up outside...

[solitaire89]

Just in case anyone stumbles across a similar issue in the future, we now have a second one of these installed, and I can confirm that the second one is exactly the same. So, I either have 2 projectors on the verge of ignition, or it's normal!