Hoping you techies might have some suggestions for this:
We have an Epson Home Cinema 8350 projector. It's some 8+ years old, but we've replaced the bulb at some point and it's still going strong. Over the last year or so it occasionally has a problem with it's temperature sensor automatically shutting it off. It happens right after we turn it on -- it's completely cold. The red temperature light starts flashing, it shuts off and puts the fans on high. Once it gets it in its head to do this, no amount of turning it off and on again will get it running: it's out of service until some later date of its choosing.
After doing some reading, it seems Epson projectors tend to have this problem due to faulty/cheap thermistor. There's DIY instructions online for taking it out and just putting a resistor instead, but we don't have this kind of experience, and have never done any soldering.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Eps...Sensor-Repair/
Any suggestions? Maybe there's a reasonable repair shop we could take it to (preferably HK side) to do the job quickly? Or has someone done something like this and has some feedback about how doable it is?
It's pretty annoying to be all ready to plop on the sofa and watch a movie only to be disappointed by the red light.