P5260E Service Manual FORWORD For your convenience, all service parts, identified in this manual are available through Acer’s normal distribution channels. In addition to service part number, the generic description has been given, where possible, to allow your service technicians to substitute equivalent components which might be available from other sources.
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Update History 2007/10/05 First edition completed P1165E&P5260E...
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Alert you any damage that might result form doing or not Warning doing specific actions. Give precautionary measures to avoid possible hardware Caution or software problems. Remind you doing specific actions relevant to the Important accomplishment of procedures. P1165E&P5260E...
1.2.2 Lamp for P5260E Product Type: Short arc mercury lamp with reflector. Initial Characteristics Note: More information about lamp replacement procedure, resetting lamp timer and lamp part number, please check the page 18. P1165E&P5260E...
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Use the lead below 200 C to prevent a deterioration of cladding clad of the fluorocarbon resin. ♦ The lead wire insulation clad shouldn’t touch the reflector. ♦ Exchange the lamp that has already passed the life time immediately. P1165E&P5260E...
Please check the firmware and composer version before any firmware upgrade procedures. During firmware download period, please do not shut down PC or projector, this will cause flash memory’s damage. And need to return the unit to manufacturer for flash memory recovery. P1165E&P5260E...
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10. Press Menu and Power buttons constantly and then give power supply (switch power on). Power LED and Lamp LED will become amber. That indicates the projector is in the download mode. At this moment, you can release these two buttons. 11. Click [Start Download]. When the dialog box is displayed, click [Yes]. P1165E&P5260E...
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12. Wait for the Completion of Burning and then remove Power Cord and Burning Cord Note: In case, the device manager can’t recognize the DDP2230 as blow, please disable this device. This will not affect upgrade procedure. P1165E&P5260E...
♦ When you replace the projector lamp, never touch the new lamp with your bare hands. The invisible residue left by the oil on your hands may shorten the lamp life. Use lint-free gloves or finger cots are recommended. P1165E&P5260E...
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Bottom cover assembly How to open the lamp cover? Refer to 3.3 Disassembly Lamp Module. S1*6 3. When taking off the top cover, take care of the flex wire. Disconnect the wire first (as the photo showing). P1165E&P5260E...
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Pull the front cover up to disassemble it (as photo Front cover showing).Then loosen the screws of the I/O board on back cover as shown. Note: there are 8ea screws for P5260E but 6ea for P1166, because of one more VGA connector. P1165E&P5260E...
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As photo showing, loosen the screws (3ea for the metal S4*1 dome and 1ea for the ground wire), then take off the module. Ballast Note: the metal has a hook for tightening the module, be careful when taking it off. P1165E&P5260E...
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Disconnect the connectors of FAN1 the fans, then pull off the fans as the direction as the photo FAN2 showing. Disconnect the wires then pull the power module out. Note: there is no screw for the Power module module. P1165E&P5260E...
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Step Figure Description Remove the screws as S2*3 showing and take off the optical engine. Loosen the screws and take S2*3 off the lamp house. Speaker Take off the speaker. Lamp House P1165E&P5260E...
Open the lamp cover as the photo showing (Push the switch on “OPEN” to unlock the lamp cover, then push the lamp cover as the direction the arrow showing. Uncover the lamp cover then you open the cover.) Loosen the two screws of lamp module P1165E&P5260E...
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Reset the lamp timer. Press MENU, go to Setup > Advanced setup > Reset lamp hours, and press MENU. Note: Turn on the projector. If the lamp does not turn on after the warm-up period, please reinstall the lamp. P1165E&P5260E...
Note: Remember the assembling direction of the heat sink. It will help you when you assemble the main board again. Take the main board off. Take off the DMD aperture. Note: Take attention to the shape of DMD apeture holes P1165E&P5260E...
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Take off the DMD. Warning: If there is exactly need to disassemble the main board or DMD, doing this in a workshop with a higher air grade than 1000 is strongly suggested. P1165E&P5260E...
A failure symptom is rarely caused by more than one module, so you will not usually need to replace more than one to correct a particular failure. Whatever main board, ballast, IR board, power board, lamp module or optical engine are all suitable to check by swapping modules. P1165E&P5260E...
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Power output Replace fuse Replace power Replace main board board How to check the power board? Fuse 380V - check the 380v output on connector 3 (see ballast board page 35) - check the fuse on the power board P1165E&P5260E...
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Check Power board Power board I/O Board Board 380V output Replace Check Ballast Check Replace Main Ballast Main board Board Replace Check I/O Board I/O Board Replace Check Main Main board board Check CW Replace Rotation while Optical Engine Power on P1165E&P5260E...
2. Connect projector USB to PC. Press remote controller page up/down to scroll presentation file up and down (ex Microsoft office series) I/O port Audio input Test Equipment Connect audio input to audio output of DVD player Signal format 480i P1165E&P5260E...
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Mechanical motion of rotating Zoom ring to the end of right and left by Zoom ring hand should be free from getting stuck. The feeling of rotating Focus ring to the end of right and left by hand Focus ring should free from seizing P1165E&P5260E...
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-- For each RGB 256 levels, Noise or color deviation in R, G, and B single level respectively are acceptable. 16 gray level --16 level of gray level color should be distinguishable --When Gamma selected to “RGB” Not distinguishable of 2 brightest levels /2 darkest levels are acceptable. P1165E&P5260E...
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Standard Pattern generator (Ex. Quantum data)&DVD player Signal format 480i Criteria No apparent color deviation on the projected image Video Video I/O port Test Equipment Standard Pattern generator (Ex. Quantum data)&DVD player No apparent color deviation on the projected image Criteria P1165E&P5260E...
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2. Cover rear sensor and operate remote controller to test front sensor (6) Brightness measurements Test items Brightness measurements Chroma automatic system (The alternative is CL-200) Test Equipment Test method Measure 9 points Criteria Marketing spec 20% off P1165E&P5260E...
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1. Clamp the metal shell of VGA connector 2. Plug the power cord to socket Test criteria GND 30A 3sec 100mΩ DCW 2506V 1sec 250uA Single Step OFF (8) Cosmetic standard for repaired projector Follow cosmetic standard of repair center. P1165E&P5260E...
5.1 Main Board NO5 NO6 Connector Description No 1 Connect to I/O board No 2 Power supply No 3 Ballast control No 4 Fan2 No 5 Fan1 No 6 Fan3 No 7 C/W sensor No 8 Color wheel control P1165E&P5260E...
No 1 Connector Description No 1 Connect to main board No 2 Safety switch No 3 Power supply for ballast No 4 Thermal sensor Connector to main board details Signal Signal +12.25V +12.25V +12.25V +12.25V +12.25V PFC - ON +12.25V P1165E&P5260E...
I/O board connector No 10 Front IR board No 11 Keypad connector No 12 Speaker Notes: There is one more VGA connector for Model P5260E than Model P1165E, and also a HDMI connector. The description just takes Model P1165E as example. P1165E&P5260E...
FRUs in the projector. When working on the projector, use appropriate anti-static precautions such as anti-static mats, wrist straps and grounded work surfaces. Failure to do this can destroy static-sensitive components and make the product inoperable. P1165E&P5260E...
Keep 2~3 seconds then release 2 button. Press “MENU” button to enter the service mode. 3. “Factory Lamp Hours” is lamp hour record. Press “Down” button to choose “Factory Lamp Reset” then press the “Right” button to reset the lamp hours. P1165E&P5260E...