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stefuel
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:17 am Post subject: Not even a act of God can kill a AmPro |
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We got nailed by a wicked t-storm last night. My wife was watching the emergency weather alert warning of heavy t-storms with large hail and tornadic activity. I was about to pull the plug on everything in the house when BAM, we got hit with not one but two lightning strikes within five seconds of each other. I was not in the theater but my wife and son were and they both claimed to see sparks fly from the 4600HD. Power was restored about 3:30 AM. I re-connected everything and damn if that 4600HD didn't power up as if nothing ever happened  All night I feared the worst. I was actually picturing my self on the phone with Curt, ordering up a fresh 9500LC Ultra. That was soon squelched by a perfectly normal start up. The 4600HD lives to fail another day 
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Gino
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God wasn't trying to kill it, it was about to die and he revived it 
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timf
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Location: Adelaide South Australia
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God doesn't like Ampros he missed the first time, he'll be back
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Curt Palme
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Oh c'mon, the inherent surge protection properties of your Monster cable saved the day!
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garyfritz
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I dunno Chip, this Ampro-baiting just isn't as much fun without Pete around... 
timf, if He missed with TWO lightning strikes, then I'd say there must be an Even Higher Power keeping that Ampro running!! Either that or Gino is right and God was using the Cosmic Defibrillator on it!
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grogthegreat
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I got hit with the same storm but I was lucky that we didn't get any power surges. I had everything turned on and was watching stuff on the projector!
-Grog
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perisoft
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:52 pm Post subject: Re: Not even a act of God can kill a AmPro |
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| stefuel wrote: | | I was not in the theater but my wife and son were and they both claimed to see sparks fly from the 4600HD. |
I kinda thought that was SOP for an Ampro...
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stefuel
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject: Re: Not even a act of God can kill a AmPro |
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| perisoft wrote: | | stefuel wrote: | | I was not in the theater but my wife and son were and they both claimed to see sparks fly from the 4600HD. |
I kinda thought that was SOP for an Ampro... |
"SOP"???
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Zebu Fellenz
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Standard Operating Procedure
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timf
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| garyfritz wrote: | I dunno Chip, this Ampro-baiting just isn't as much fun without Pete around...
timf, if He missed with TWO lightning strikes, then I'd say there must be an Even Higher Power keeping that Ampro running!! Either that or Gino is right and God was using the Cosmic Defibrillator on it! |
Ahh so it worked.
You see God has a sense of humour and is lulling you into a false sense of security waiting for you to post how great the Ampro is then.........BAM!!!!!!
Third time lucky
I'm sure there was an eleventh commandment "thou shalt smite all ampros"
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jkruger
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God has mercy on the weak and lame, that's why he spared the Ampro.... Mother Nature wanted it gone for misrepresenting the beauty of the colors she created.
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stefuel
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| jkruger wrote: | | God has mercy on the weak and lame, that's why he spared the Ampro.... Mother Nature wanted it gone for misrepresenting the beauty of the colors she created. |
It never ceases to amaze me at how far some of you get being so misinformed. The only projector I've ever seen that produce better color representation out of the box is a NEC , and not by much. Many of you continually bash the later models of AmPro yet you've never even seen one. Most of you base your bashing on comments made by someone else who's never seen one. But that's OK. It keeps the prices down I am laughing at you all
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jkruger
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I knew that would get you going.....
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Angus_rg
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| Curt Palme wrote: | | Oh c'mon, the inherent surge protection properties of your Monster cable saved the day! |
Now I feel better about buying their 2ft component cables that cost as much as my projector
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perisoft
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| Angus_rg wrote: | | Curt Palme wrote: | | Oh c'mon, the inherent surge protection properties of your Monster cable saved the day! |
Now I feel better about buying their 2ft component cables that cost as much as my projector |
I've had tic tacs that cost as much as some of my projectors...
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AnalogRocks
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| garyfritz wrote: | I dunno Chip, this Ampro-baiting just isn't as much fun without Pete around...
timf, if He missed with TWO lightning strikes, then I'd say there must be an Even Higher Power keeping that Ampro running!! Either that or Gino is right and God was using the Cosmic Defibrillator on it! |
OR he was enjoing some of Chips wine and his aim was a little off
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Heywood Jablome
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Actually, the 4600HD survived because Ampro rolled into that chassis all the design changes over the years caused by Spellman power supplies!
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CLEAR!!! *POW!* ... we got a rhythm..
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the best part of this thread is that I know some guys here at least admit there is a God 
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Zebu Fellenz
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| Gary M. wrote: | the best part of this thread is that I know some guys here at least admit there is a God
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Of course there is "a" God, what exactly that God is has yet to be determined. God is a state of mind. 
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