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Originally Posted by Fuzz
With that projector you need it 1.5" away for 80". That's the lens part, so the projector itself will sit very close to the wall.
If you go with the BenQ HT2150ST you need about 4.5 feet. Most lenses sit a ways below your ceiling height when mounted. The top of my lens is 6" below the ceiling and hits my screen at 17" below. That's with a fairly low profile ceiling mount. So you have to check vertical offset too. You may be better with a non-low profile mount. You are much better to not have to angle your projector down and use keystone to correct, unless it is an LCD. But it may fit fine behind your track lighting.
This calculator, if you haven't found it yet, is essential to planning.
https://www.projectorcentral.com/Ben...r-pro.htm#calc |
I'll definitely take a quick peek at things to rethink it this weekend and draw/calc it out rather than ball park it. Perhaps you're right and short throw might still work.
I think the main issue was that IIRC, the track lights are like 2.5"-3" on a 10 ft ceiling (kinda low) and I got a low profile mount even before I got this projector. Also, if I'm 4-8 feet away from the screen, I'm in the middle of the room and I'd have to get a ton of super long cables and also figure out how to hide them (Power, HDMI etc.).
But Keystone correction should be able to address that. The savings would go pretty far to get stuff to make it prettier and I might even be able to upgrade to 4K/higher brightness as well.
I'm still at a loss as to how to hide the cables though and I think I'd need to pull cables almost 20 ft to get to get to where I'd put some of the media stuff/outlet. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Some of the drop box type options I researched before were pretty awful which is kinda why I was leaning towards UST in the first place.