BenQ W5000

[Bruce Fisher]

mechman wrote:

Rick,

Take a look here. Select "Home Projector", "W5000", "16:9", and "Ceiling mount". If you mount it 15' back at 6'6", you should have enough room between the bottom of your screen and the floor. The further you go back, the less room you will have. There is a vertical image shift as well. You'll want to mount it pretty close to the ceiling.

Thanks for this link - I hadn't seen this before. You might have just saved me some aggravation!

I have a W5000 sitting in the box that I received last week. Getting ready to mount it this weekend - and based on that calculator, my screen is too low by a few inches!

I want to confirm I'm reading this right. My screen is 55" high (plus 3" border) and it's 10" from the ceiling (for a total of 68" drop needed). The PJ lens will be about 4" below the ceiling so I need to enter 64" (65 to be safe) in the screen height box (bottom right entry on the window)? Or do I just enter 55" and not worry that it's 10" (+3" border) below the ceiling?

What is confusing me is that they show 0" as distance from lens to top of screen... does that mean my screen top needs to be the same height as my lens? Or can it be lower without issue? And if it's lower, do I include that amount in the screen size calculator?

Thanks!

[mechman]

Bruce Fisher wrote:

Thanks for this link - I hadn't seen this before. You might have just saved me some aggravation!

I have a W5000 sitting in the box that I received last week. Getting ready to mount it this weekend - and based on that calculator, my screen is too low by a few inches!

I want to confirm I'm reading this right. My screen is 55" high (plus 3" border) and it's 10" from the ceiling (for a total of 68" drop needed). The PJ lens will be about 4" below the ceiling so I need to enter 64" (65 to be safe) in the screen height box (bottom right entry on the window)? Or do I just enter 55" and not worry that it's 10" (+3" border) below the ceiling?

It is just a basic calculator. I think it's main purpose is to give you min/max screen sizes for the distance you mount your W5000 at. I'd enter the distance first and note the min and max screen sizes. There's a 20% vertical shift either way on the W5000. For a 55" high screen I believe you'd have 11 inches of play up and down. There is no horizontal shift though! So get your left and right lined up perfectly.

So the top of your screen is 13" from the ceiling. And your pj lens is 4" from the ceiling. That's a 9" difference so I think you should be fine.

Bruce Fisher wrote:

What is confusing me is that they show 0" as distance from lens to top of screen... does that mean my screen top needs to be the same height as my lens? Or can it be lower without issue? And if it's lower, do I include that amount in the screen size calculator?

Thanks!

They show zero but you should be fine as long as you're within the 20%. So no, the top of your screen doesn't have to be lined up with the lens.

There's a 20% vertical shift either way. For a 55" high screen I believe you'd have 11 inches of play up and down. There is no horizontal shift though!

[Bruce Fisher]

Cool! thanks for clarifying.

[mechman]

I recently hit the 500 hour mark and decided to check the settings/readings. Turns out some of my previous settings reverted back to the original default settings. Two hours later, here's where I'm at:

[atledreier]

That's not bad at all. Reminds me I need to do mine as well.

[mechman]

Yep. I'm fairly happy with it. I may try to find out what the 'burp' is at 40IRE. And I'd like to get gamma back up to 2.2.

Maybe I should just relax and watch a movie!