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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

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From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 12-17-2016 01:32 PM

While I have not been sick out at Barco...I was there for two weeks straight. It has this nasty stale coffee odor to it (when I was there). My boss also got VERY sick going there, however.

Leo, the electronic convergence can only move in 1 pixel increments (think about it).

On series 1, there are TWO TI programs. One is just the updater and the other is just the controller. For series 2, one program does both and there is the far-right tab that does the updates. Same user/passwords between series 1 and 2 and the same user/passwords work for all three brands of projectors, with respect to the ICP. For the Enigma, same program, different user/passwords between the three projectors (well, 2 are the same and 1 is different).

Anyone working on the DLP projectors should really familiarize themselves with the ICP program. Seriously. It is a VERY handy tool on installation/service. It can save buckets of time since you are controlling the ICP directly to put up test patterns or even make screen files. It can also cut out the nonsense that some of the GUIs force you through. For instance, NEC likes to go full screen on test patterns...just use the ICP program when doing screen files and skip that nonsense. Christie's GUI for screen files also can be annoying where as the ICP program's is actually intuitive, though less glitzy. Barco has the slowest file transfer of them all...but it is near instant in the ICP program.

Ever set up a Dolby 3D? On any DLP projector (with an ICP), the ICP program can be used in-lieu of the server and do it in about 1/4 of the time (if you know what you are doing) including matching eye brightness.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 12-17-2016 01:56 PM

I think Brad also got sick going to Barco school! Seems to me he blamed it on the steak place.

Mark

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 12-17-2016 03:38 PM

Mark, the first class I took there I assumed it was something I ate. By the second class I started to realize it was Rancho Cordova itself!

The last time I was there I asked the trainer flat out if people getting sick there was a common thing, as I was never the only one getting sick in the classes. He said flat out that yes it is common. I believe his theory if I recall was a high pollen count.

I don't know what it was, but it's pretty rare that I get sick. Still it's almost a guarantee as far as I'm concerned that my next trip to Rancho Cordova I'll get sick again. They really need to relocate their training program to someplace where it isn't common for people to get sick.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
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posted 12-17-2016 03:47 PM

That's pretty bizarre. I wonder if the employees get sick all the time? I do remember someone mentioning the steak house and how that made them ill. I had a friend that lived nearby in ELdorado Hills and going there never made me sick. That's like 5 miles from Barco....

Mark

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 12-17-2016 04:13 PM

I think once you live somewhere you develop a basic immunity to whatever is in the air (or water).

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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 12-17-2016 05:11 PM

The Inland Empire (a corridor stretching about 100 miles east of LA) is said to have some of the worst air quality in the country - a deep valley with lots of traffic and industrial activity in it. After three years living in it, I barely notice the perpetual smog any more, but when people come to visit from out of town they tend to comment on it. A reminder is how filthy the HVAC filter gets on our home system: the instructions that come with the new paper ones suggest changing them every 90 days, but here they're clogged and mucky within a month. And when you drive up the mountain towards Big Bear, it's scary to see the smog settled over San Bernardino once you've driven up to around 5,000 feet. But when you actually live in it, you don't tend to notice it.

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Richard Fowler
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From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Registered: Jun 2001

posted 12-17-2016 09:13 PM

I also got sick with two other people at Rancho. I lived in LA in the early 1970's when smog was thick compared to today which did not help my lungs. Traveling to many foreign projects I had enough recurring issues in which I worked out routines and medicines to make it O.K.

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