J-Roc
01-17-2008, 01:47 AM
Ok, i was long awaiting cash to buy myself a new monitor. Thies old 17" crt monitors just aint cuttin the butter anymore. I had a plan to pick one up in a few months when the cash flow was better.
Thats when my friend/co-worker droped by so he could fix his truck in my carport. That went well. I glanced in his back seat and he had a pile of crap back there. So i asked him whats with the stock pile of garbage. He said he was working at a university doing some prep work there and the school was throwing away massive amounts of school equipment. Most of it was old but in perfectly good condition. They he says to me, "hey check this out" and he pulled out a projector. Turns out he had grabed 2 of them. Obviously with me being me, i wanted to hook it up. Worked perfect! So he says "yeah, you cant have that." What? you've got two man.. He tells me i can have the second one because it has a propriatary power cord which he couldnt find at the school. Sweet Jebus! I pop'd that sucker open and wired a cord to the power leads. Took just under 20min for the whole operation.
Now i have a kick arse projector! I do need some things to get it working properly. The tv out on my video card degrades the signal so its not going to work that way for everyday use. I'll have to use the vga input but for that i'll need a 30 ft length of vga cable so i can mount it on the wall behind me. I'll also have to make a shelf or somthing that i can suspend the projector from. I cant sit it on a shelf because the image is inverted and i dont think it can be fliped. So there are just a few problems i have to over come but it sure is a lot cheaper than buying a new flat panel.
Friends are the greatest!
Thats when my friend/co-worker droped by so he could fix his truck in my carport. That went well. I glanced in his back seat and he had a pile of crap back there. So i asked him whats with the stock pile of garbage. He said he was working at a university doing some prep work there and the school was throwing away massive amounts of school equipment. Most of it was old but in perfectly good condition. They he says to me, "hey check this out" and he pulled out a projector. Turns out he had grabed 2 of them. Obviously with me being me, i wanted to hook it up. Worked perfect! So he says "yeah, you cant have that." What? you've got two man.. He tells me i can have the second one because it has a propriatary power cord which he couldnt find at the school. Sweet Jebus! I pop'd that sucker open and wired a cord to the power leads. Took just under 20min for the whole operation.
Now i have a kick arse projector! I do need some things to get it working properly. The tv out on my video card degrades the signal so its not going to work that way for everyday use. I'll have to use the vga input but for that i'll need a 30 ft length of vga cable so i can mount it on the wall behind me. I'll also have to make a shelf or somthing that i can suspend the projector from. I cant sit it on a shelf because the image is inverted and i dont think it can be fliped. So there are just a few problems i have to over come but it sure is a lot cheaper than buying a new flat panel.
Friends are the greatest!