Training day for the boys

Had a informative morning today. Epson sent one of their reps today to give us a demonstration and overlay of the capabilities of their projectors. We were shown the basic fault finding procedures, how to utilise all the menu features and basic maintenance. Most of this was second nature as we have extensive experience with projectors.

The most interesting thing was the ability for remote monitoring of their units. You can observe everything from unit temperature, lamp hours, any faults that occur. You can also programme the units to power up or down at a specific time of the day and vary each day as needed per classroom. Remote access also allows the full access of the unit for everything from keystone to brightness and contrast of the units image so certain minor problems could be solved over the phone.

Obviously for primary schools this feature would be extremely useful if the school had Epson units throughout (no biase towards a product here!!). Those schools with say even half a dozen units I think would benefit from this as early indications of problems would be very helpful. Best of all the software for this is free.......