I have an Optoma HD 70 with a broken color wheel. ( pieces of the wheel fell out of the projector) I have ordered a replacement but elected to replace it myself (and avoid weeks of waiting with all kinds of additional expense, shipping from Hawaii to California, tech service, etc.). I need instruction or exploded diagram or any helpful advice. Thank you.

Hi
your projector color wheel s broken .you have to take to optoma service centre
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Yes thats right. There are a correct sequence. Must be (from left to right). The piece whit out color, the pink piece, the green piece and the yellow piece. If the color wheel have more than four pieces, reapet the sequence.

Asher fadida and alll,

The issue:
solid red error light?
HD70 "die's" after few min with strage noise?
flickers different colors before complete self shutdown?

well try this....

Before replacing your bulb, fan or any other component try first cleaning your optoma realy good!! HD70 doesnt comes with any kind of filter so you can imagine the amound of dust can be.
The most importent thing is to blow away any dust from your color wheel + the sensor attached to it .

for farther troubleshoting clean your fan's.
there are 2 fan's insinde the HD70.

probably the most problems will be solved by cleening the color wheel!!
if the problem is not solved ,chack the lemp and the fans if they work properlly.

For fan replacing:
Fan Part number: GM1207PKVX-A



Good luck!!

The piece that's cracked is called a color wheel. I spoke with the parts department at optoma and they want $300 for a new color wheel for my ep 732h projector. I'm not sure if it's the same part but you can contact optoma on their website and they'll get back to you with a price quote for that part.

I removed the front cover and top panel, Using the Radio Shack dust removing spray, removed all dust from interior including circuit boards, color wheel ect, now it,s operating like a new projector.

Call 1-888-942-2929 option 2 the cost is $59.00

Hello, the information is as follows:


Part no: 70.18r26g01
Cost: 129.00 + shipping
Model :Optoma DV-10
Contact no: (408) 383-3710
You may also contact the "out of warranty" repair department at 888.942.2929.

Glad to help.

Okay, I recently had a loud noise coming from my projector and found online meterial stating that the colour wheel had been damaged. So with a bit of guts I managed to open the projector and found the colour wheel missing a segment.

I removed the colour wheel and the broken piece of the segement and tried to contact Optoma. Optoma turned round and said they cannot sell me the the colour wheel, which got me very upset. Some people claim online that Optoma will sell you the part on a back order at £50. (if you can be a little specific on how you managed to convince them to sell you the part, would be great).

The only option I had available was to send my project to them and they would repair for an estimated cost of £125+VAT. Guess what, you can buy the entire projector off ebay for 150quid!!!

Anyways after fiddling around quite a big online I got fedup and decided to glue the broken segment together and it SOLVED the loud vibration problem. I have colour and picture.

Becareful not to tighten the colour wheel screw too tight orelse it will break another piece of segement (Like I did).

Here are instructions on how to open up the projector.

http://www.geekfest.info/DV10/dv10.html

I cannot guarantee this will work for you as it depends on how badly you have shattered the colour wheel segment, so do at your own risk. I had two piece of the segment broken and a third by tightening the colour wheel screw too tight.

This will work for awhile but the colour wheel does need replaceing one day. If anyone can tell me how you can get Optoma to sell you the colour wheel would be great.

Best of Luck

Yes, you can replace the color wheel yourself if you are handy with a screwdriver.

i have the same projector with same problem. i called optoma direct and ordered a new color wheel. it was relatively easy and came in about a week. the phone no. is 408-383-3710