Problems with Barco Graphics 801

Hi!
I have a Barco Graphics 801 which has been stored away for a few years, but now I decided to give it another try to repair it.
From the beginning the projector was set to ceiling mount. I'm not sure whether it had any problems, and I think it wasn't used much. Possibly it hadn't been used for years when we got it. If I remember correctly the stand-by counter was something like 18000 hours, but probably it was not actually on most of the time. The tubes look really fresh.
After switching the projector from ceiling mount to table mount (by changing the 4 switches, while the power was completely off) the projector was working for about 2 hours, and then R138 (4.7 ohms high power resistor) on the H-shift board (the one most to the left if you are behind the projector) burnt, literally; we could see smoke.
R138 is for the red channel. There are two more resistors of the same type (R128 and R118) for blue and green.

After replacing R138 the projector was working again. I only let the projector run for a couple of minutes, and then I shut it off to check the resistors. R138 was burning hot, while R128 and R118 were cool.
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I switched the projector to ceiling mount to see what would happen. When I started the projector scan fail was blinking (maybe around 2-3 blinks per second) for a few seconds during start-up, and there was some "scary" crackle sounds (the kind of sound you don't want to hear from electronics, because you think it's going to burn). After the initial seconds, the projector seemed to work fine, for about a minute. Then there was scan fail (and HTHD went out, as it should, to protect the tubes) and "scary" sounds. After a few seconds of constant scan fail I cut the power. To my surprise, R138 was quite cool this time. (R128 and R118 were also fine.)
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I tried to start the projector, which was still set to ceiling mount. Scan fail was blinking and there was "scary" sounds during start-up, just like the previous day. After the start-up I got picture, but now and then there was a scan fail (and "scary" sound), and the picture went blank for a second or so each time. After about a minute I cut the power. The three resistors were cool.
I switched the projector back to table mount (which is what I will probably use, if I get it to work). Now everything seemed to work just fine. There were no scan fails at all, neither during start-up nor later, and no "scary" sounds. All three tubes were on (I activated adjust mode). I shut the projector off after about a minute. R138 was hot, while R128 and R118 were quite cool. I guess R138 would burn within a couple of hours, if it would even last that long, which is what happened a few years ago with the original R138.
Any ideas about what could be wrong?
To summarize, I think the most important points are:with ceiling mount R138 is cool, but with table mount R138 gets burning hot, while R128 and R118 are still cool.
with ceiling mount there are scan fails, and "scary" sounds.
with table mount, the projector appears to be working fine (except for R138). No scan fails. The LEDs for each voltage are lit, as they should be.
That R138 gets burning hot must be a symptom of something else, not that there would be something wrong with the resistor, but what could it be? And why does it only happen at table mount?
Which components are used / stressed differently at table and ceiling mount respectively?
Are there any components that are used only for table or ceiling mount respectively?
Maybe I should mention that I'm very familiar with electronics, but except for this BG801 I have no experience in repairing projectors. Replacing components, soldering and metering is no problem for me, though I would prefer to not meter while the projector is running, and I don't have a raiser-board(?).
The problem is that I'm not sure what I should look for. Because of R138 I assume that the problem is something H-related on the red channel. At the same time I don't want to rule out that something else could be wrong as well, since the projector was acting in different ways depending on whether it was set to table mount or ceiling mount.
I'm very grateful for any suggestions about how I should proceed.

Gifts

K, O, M tonight on the deck after dinnerLately I've been thinking about gifts. All sorts of gifts. Big gifts, little gifts, simple gifts, complex gifts, 'good' gifts, and gifts of challenge. The boys' birthday is coming up (something that looms large around here; something that Kyle and Owen-- Kyle especially-- remind us of many times each day). They'll receive lots of gifts from lots of people. As is our tradition, Braydon and I will give them each one gift. They've asked for remote control airplanes. They have been ordered. They will wake up on their birthday to open that special gift. They will get what they've wanted.For a long time now I have thought of Kyle and Owen as a gift. A gift to me in my life; a very special gift. Adopting them was the best thing I've ever done in my life. Adopting them is by far the best way I've ever used my life. They are such a gift in so many ways, ways that range from the most simple to the most complex. They've filled my life with such intense richness; they are everything --and more-- that I hoped for and longed for and wished for and asked for. But sometimes we receive gifts that we don't ask for. We didn't ask for Meera. And yet every single night, as I put her to bed, I rock her in the stillness of her bedroom and I think -- sometimes even whisper outloud -- "My God, what a gift this baby is." She is a pure joy; a sweet indulgence; an angel baby that makes me feel on top of the world. I wonder, 'how could I be so lucky? What a gift!' If I could have known to ask for her, I would have: she is the gift I never even knew I wanted.And sometimes gifts are received that we'd never ask for. Gifts can be questions that push us in new directions, experiences that deepen our souls, challenges that we'd never ever seek or that we actively try to avoid. A few days ago I found out that one of my students from a few years back killed himself. He did it in a gruesome way that turns my stomach to think about. This was a kid that I was very close with; a student I worked hard with; someone I put a lot into. On Thursday I'll teach my last class of this semester. And like every semester, I'll end that class telling my students what I always do: "Once a student of mine, always a student of mine." It is sincere for me, I really mean it. I am not a stereotypical professor, and I get very close with my students. This particular student of mine graduated in 2005 but I'd been in touch with him off and on since then. He was a beautiful, brilliant, complicated young black man with rippling muscles and glaring eyes and a rough, rough history. He was tough. He challenged me. And he will now, forever, challenge me in some of the most profound ways imaginable. This is a gift. A gift I would never ask for. And yet a gift still the same.I'm reeling from finding out that this student of mine took his life. And I still feel nauseous if I think about it too much (it does not help that this is now the second person in my life who, in the past six months, has committed suicide). But last night, sitting in the rocking chair with baby Meera, it suddenly was so clear to me: yes, what a gift she is. Right now, she's a simple, pure, joyful gift -- a gift of almost intoxicating sweetness. I am grateful for this gift that she is in my life. But I am grateful too, for the more challenging gifts that I have had the honor of receiving. The wild and crazy boys who we had to work so hard for to adopt, who push my buttons daily, and keep me on my toes and never let me rest and always make me question every single one of my parenting strategies. I would not want it any other way. The gift of Kyle and Owen is the truest miracle I've ever experienced. And as I near the end of the school year and begin to wrap up another year of being a Professor who actually cares... well... I am reminded that I wouldn't want every one of my students to be the stellar-make-the-Professor-proud-shiny-happy-straight-A-go-on-to-graduate-school-always-striving-to-please ones. Those ones are gifts, for sure (I've had the pleasure and privilege of calling many students like that my own). But there are other gits too. The students who push me and compel me to question everything I'm doing... those students are gifts. It is not a compare and contrast. It just is what it is. And Howard Ward, as hard as it is to see, is a gift to me.He is no longer on this earth but I can remember him well. I remember hugging his rigid body and working hard to look him right straight in his glaring eyes. I bought a painting of his-- the first piece of artwork he ever sold-- and it has had a home in our house ever since, and always will. I watched him on the football field many times as he aggressively slammed his hard body into the players of the other team. And more than once I watched him cry sitting on the couch in my office. I remember when he came to me to tell me that his girlfriend was pregnant and keeping the baby. And I remember when he emailed me to tell me that his first "real" art gallery show had been a huge success. I remember when he stood up and did a 'rap' once during a class discussion (and every other word was the 'f' word). What a gift all of those things have been. He never was one of the 'easy' ones; he always had a way of making me feel a bit uneasy, a bit unsure. But I am sure that is a good thing for me. To me, he was a student who pushed me to question and challenged me to rise to the occasion. He was tough. And still is. And what a gift.Gifts given, gifts received.So as the gift of spring is blooming all around me right now -- making me feel as if I'm living in some sort of fantasy land with blooming trees and birds of bright colors flying all around us (literally! it is that beautiful here!)... and as the school year is winding down again-- making me feel as if I'm being pushed to the max for this final crunch, yet again... and as we prepare to celebrate two boys turning five and one girl turning one and as I remember being pregnant a year ago and getting our adoption referral five years ago and as I watch my students get ready to graduate and remember the ones that have graduated in years past... and as I think about gifts given and gifts received... as I reel and spin in the vastness of it all... I am grounded by the gifts. And I take solace in the three in the photo above.

Philip Withnall: libgdata

It’s about time to announce something I’ve been working on for about three months now: libgdata. It’s a GLib-, libsoup- and libxml2-based library for accessing GData APIs, as used by most Google services. There already exist several such libraries in a variety of languages, but as far as I’m aware this is the first one written in C — and thus the first which is widely accessible to the GNOME stack. So far it has decent support for YouTube video queries, and the beginnings of Google Calendar support. Having ported the Totem YouTube plugin to use libgdata, my next plan is to port the evolution-data-server Google Calendar backend as well. With that done, libgdata will hopefully be stable and fully-featured enough for people to get to work on starting to fulfil Rob Bradford’s dream of tighter desktop integration with web services.

The Social Side to the SharePoint Conference

Beyond the 10 or so customer meetings I had, 6 or so partner meetings, and 2 analyst meetings, I did find some time to attend some social events that were a lot of fun. If you're looking for my decks or notes on the keynote and announcements I posted them in a recap. You can also see the SharePoint Conference press pass PR content and keynote announcements. If you were at the conference you may have seen me with Paul Graham a SharePoint newbie from Portland. He's so passionate about SharePoint he's willing to drop everything, and is planning on working for in an "internship" if he can't find something fulltime. I introduced him to plenty of SharePoint folks who are looking for SharePoint people and who might be willing to give him on the job training. I'd like to give him a boost if there is someone looking for people with passion and lacking deep skills. (Ping me through this blog if you have ideas, or openings, he is willing to relocate.) He's been to Shane Young's Advanced Admin class in December, and since has been running MOSS on his home machine. His background in IT, network & desk side support and troubleshooting is a good start. One big background social theme throughout the conference was... it's hard to get good SharePoint talent. The talent pool on SharePoint is a small elite group. One quote I over heard in passing was, "why miss a week where I can make 10K for a week at the SharePoint conference where it covers what I already know?" I'll tell you... Because the sum of this social network of MVPs is of more value than the parts. Hence what I consider a big SharePoint reunion and tight social network. Sorry if you didn't make it or tried and it was sold out. Many a scalper was turned away. The first night, Monday night, there were 4 concurrent events. From the Ted Pattison and Ascentium social to the HP dinner, MVP dinner, and Syntergy appreciation party. It was tough determining where to go. The MVP dinner was so well attended I ended up taking a decent contingency (Chandima, Todd, Matt, Ivan and a few of his Auzzie buddies, Mike, Paul, and a few others to Mortons. The was some count that there were ~35 SharePoint MVPs at the conference, but there were 60 who showed up. I had a group of about 10 MVPs with me. The steak was great. The Ascentium/TPG party was pretty good as well, it's advantage of starting earlier I saw a few MVPs like AC and Shane Young who were trying to fit in both. When I first arrived I ran into Brian Cook and Brett Campbell from Nintex. Brian and I walked through our deck and decided on some slight changes and arrangements. He's got such a dynamic and great personality that grows on anybody. They keynote went off with very little concern. The customer deployments and simply having Bill talk about his passion for SharePoint is always fun. I saw the keynote from building 16, Rob Silver, Rob Lefferts, Dustin Fr, and Derek Burney were there as well, so I was definitely in good company. It was fun to watch their faces during the Q & A and with the solution accelerator demos by Tom Rizzo. Michael Herman's unified storage question for example brought a few eyebrow raises, but Billg handled it well. SQL08 makes some major steps in the right direction with the new data types. Tuesday night, the Museum of Flight party was the official one. Heather Solomon's Ruth Chris spontaneous dinner really hit the spot, great food, great company. There were 20 of us with the SharePoint Experts crew. It was good meeting Matt from SP Experts for the first time. I can see he's very passionate about the IT Pro and ensuring SharePoint deployments are successful. His focus on planning and working with the business and not against it... he's got something. Sitting next to Matt I could feel his passion. It was fun to watch Shane's reactions to his stories. Welcome Matt Passannante to the SharePoint community. Hanging out with Shane Young, AC, Todd, Nicola, Dustin, Todd (x2), Chris, Medero, and Heather (amongst others) is one of my favorite things to do at Conferences. Dustin Miller has his new challenge... Integrate guitar hero into his session, not just the words, but the actual game. After the dinner we went back to the Crown, where most of the gang was hanging out. Adam Buenz, Bob Fox and cronies, Jason Medero, AC, Chris Regan, Steve Smith, Ben Curry, Ted Pattison, Nick Swan, Todd Klindt, Darrin Bishop, Todd Baginsky, Spence, Steve Smith, and more. Wednesday started off seeing most of the biker keynote. Then Bob and my session. SharePoint Jokes I made up especially for the WS08/SQL08 Bob Fox and Joel Oleson session: 1. What does SharePoint and Paintball have in common? A. The more experience you have, the more likely you'll be to miss the zingers. (It pays off to learn or to work with experienced MOSS architects or experts.) 2. Three guys go into a bar to play a game. The first guy leaves on a stretcher, the second guy passes out. The last guy wins. It's Bob and it was a drinking game. Their did happen to be a fourth guy watching the game drinking pineapple juice. That was Joel. 3. What do SharePoint and Beer have in Common? A. You have a little bit, and things start to not seem so bad. Todd Klindt said he'd had a 50% chance that he might have a SQL 2008 CTP VPC with him the night before the session. I said bring it. I'd like to show off the backup compression and transparent encryption options. Sure enough he had it, and he said he had looked at these settings, so I invited him to show it off during the session. He really nailed it, and the crowd loved it. They wanted more SQL 2008. In the shower that morning I was thinking... hmmm what can I do to ensure that the session isn't super serious. If anyone had been to the SQL 2008 or WS08 sessions at the various launch events, or possibly any events since last TechEd, they might have seen most of our material, but I really wanted to put a SharePoint focus to the session. Wednesday night was the game night. Snacks, drinks, and XBOX games with your top favorites. After chatting with folks at the game night, we split up and I ended up at the Dell and AMD social at Ruths Chris. It was good to see some of the Dell IT folks who visited recently and those working on AMD.com. Dino, Doron, and Mike were all enjoying themselves as well. Also had a chance to connect with Matt from Catalysis and connected with a few MS folks from the field. After we were all very hungry and on our way to AC and Bob's SharePint party at Kells, we couldn't find a good place to eat (little did we know Kells had Shepherds pie!) I suggested Wild Ginger, but the 15-20 minute wait was too much for Shane. He bowed out and took a portion of the crew (Todd and Nicola) with him to MCDs and then Kells and back to the hotel. We didn't see them after that. We did meet up with Woody and David Solomon. We even ran into Rob Bogue. Good chats with him about TechEd and the state of things in the midwest. Steve Carvajal had been chatting with Shane and ended up eating with us and following us to Kells. Kells is definitely where the party was. AC, Bob Fox, Fitz, Kimmo, the HP SharePoint experts like Kevin Laahs, Daniel McPherson (and gang), some Mindsharp folks, Keith Richie, Maurice Prather, Ted Pattison, Gayan, Patrick Tisseghem, Eric Shupps, Auzzies, Irish and Scots and on and on were there. AC and Bob did very well, it was a good time. I told AC that we need to definitely do this for TechEd. Note we are looking for sponsors, and now that we have proof we can throw a party, I expect them to line up. You can start by contacting Andrew Connell via his blog. This is isn't his first such party, but we have a challenge... we need to beat Palermo's TechEd party. When we get more details we'll reach out more substantially. [Picture left from Kells] I was dressed for the occasion. I was wearing the Bamboo Solutions "Revlolution" garb with the SharePoint Experts dog tags. I looked pretty mean. Meeting up with Mike Watson there, he and I followed the lead of the Avepoint folks. They suggested the real party was up on capitol hill and we found a local dance music venue as Kells was closing down. We'll leave it as "dance venue," but you can imagine it was a whole lot more than that. As the night went on as we shut the place down, someone suggested Five Points for cheesy tots. That was awesome! Very impressive local dive that lived up to the reputation. It is impressive that you can find cheesy tots at 3am. After a round of hot chocolate Mike and I caught a taxi to the W. It would be an early morning starting at 8am with an analyst meeting. Tony and the awesome group of Avepoint folks were a lot of fun. There's no doubt I'll be trying to hook up with them some night at an upcoming conference. His cousin has tight connections with Spongebob. Being only 3 steps removed from Spongebob is unreal. Thursday night started off with a good visit with Fitz and Brian and a good chat with Steve Smith about his whitepapers. We all ended up at an interesting French cuisine place with the SharePoint Experts and the Ted Pattison group folks. It was good seeing Dustin, Heather, Shane, Nicola, AC, Ted, Penny, and a follow up chat with Matt about his session. We were also joined by some cool SharePoint Auzzies. We accidentally left AC in the back of the tiny SUV. As we walked off, he called Shane. By far the funniest thing of the day! Although watching AC eat the bone marrow was pretty funny as well. Shane's immediate reaction to the food brought back memories of France. Flashbacks. [Photos courtesy Chandima SharePoint MVP] Technorati Tags: SharePoint Conference,MVP Social,Parties

Flying Pig!

Met up with an amazing group of women from all over the country in Cincinnati tonight. We'll conquer the flying pig in full pig regalia tomorrow morning, thanks to Lisa Knight who created sparkly pig ears and corkscrew pink pipe cleaner tails for our hats. Oh my lord, it makes me laugh.What also made me laugh was finding out that the Awards Ceremony for the Half-Marathon is at 9:00 a.m. (Imagine me bent over completely double, laughing, since at 9:00 a.m., I will be just around Mile #4.)Prayers, good thoughts, and honey buns are all welcomed. See you on the other side.By the way, since I'll be going about 1 mile an hour, I'll be tweeting the race, so if you're interested, you can follow along at www.twitter.com/pattidigh).{Big laughs when I received this image of a flying pig in full Life is a Verb t-shirt regalia, thanks to Kathryn Ruth Schuth.}

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Earthrise devs explain interplay of shields, stamina, and energy game mechanics

Earthrise is a post-apocalyptic MMO that's quite a departure from the 'Mad Max' view of a post-civilization world. Rather, the game is one where Earth's technocratic elite survive the global apocalypse via genetic immortality through cloning, and seek to rebuild the world according to utopian ideals. Schisms divide society which leads to outright hostilities and faction struggles, giving Earthrise's players the opportunity to play some very different sorts of characters. The lore of Earthrise is steadily being fleshed out, but we're hoping that the gameplay will live up to expectations. Given that the title is still in early beta testing, we're always looking to get our questions about the game answered. Masthead Studios has been doing just that with their "Question of the Week" forum for Earthrise in which the game's developers answer questions posed to them by the fans. The latest question of the week deals with Earthrise's three major pools: shields, stamina, and energy. Gallery: Earthrise galleryContinue reading Earthrise devs explain interplay of shields, stamina, and energy game mechanics