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Refurbished Projector Lamps--Experiences???

What has been the experience with Refurbished Front Projector lamps? any recommendations on vendor? Any nightmares you would like to share? Anyone use a refurbished lamp for the Marantz line of projectors? I have purchased new lamps to date but looking at a 50% cost savings advertized, am starting to seriously consider trying one.
oilmanmojo
palasr
525 posts
 
As a technician at a sizeable northeastern engineering university, I can say our experiences have been less than stellar with "recycled" lamps. I'd have to guess it's kind of like "recycled" ink jet printer cartridges: you get what you pay for.

-R.
chadnliz
3,736 posts
 
I would agree with Palast, the chances that these reconditioned lamps will fail much quicker then new lamps will be pretty high, and if they do fail in half the time new ones would lasted then just where is the savings?
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
How do you "recondition" a lamp? Seems to me that the filiament would be new, and ought to last just as long as the original one.
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