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Know where your projector stands

Maintenance & Insights turns the numbers your projector keeps to itself into something you can actually plan around: how many hours the light source and filter have on them, how much life is projected to be left, what it is costing you to run, and a verifiable hour report. Every figure is read from the projector, never guessed. Find it under Settings, and it is part of Projector Pilot Pro.

What it shows

The whole upkeep picture

Light-source hours

How long the lamp or laser has been running, read straight from the projector's own counter.

Filter hours

The hours on the filter, so a clean or a swap lands before the airflow warnings start.

Projected life

How much life is projected to be left, based on the hours the projector reports against its rated life.

Running cost estimate

An estimate of what the projector costs to run, so you can see the price of a long weekend of films.

The hour report

A verifiable report of the projector's hours - the record you want when a lamp is under warranty or a unit changes hands.

Read, not assumed

Everything here is what the projector reports. A figure it does not expose is said to be unknown, never filled in with a plausible-looking number.

Lamp or laser

The label adapts to your projector

A lamp projector and a laser projector do not age the same way, so the app does not pretend they do. It reads which light source your exact model has and labels the hours accordingly - lamp on a lamp unit, laser on a laser unit - rather than showing one word for both.

The warning threshold follows the light-source type too: the point at which the app starts nudging you toward service is chosen to suit a lamp or a laser as appropriate, because a lamp's useful life and a laser's are worlds apart. The specific hours are your projector's own rated figures, not a number the app invents.
Why it is honest

A report you can trust

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