DIY cheap way to build 10,000 lumens large venues projector

10,000 lumens large venues projectors are extremely expensive and very heavy. This is a how to tutorial to custom build 10,000 lumens large venues projector by using two 5,000 lumens LCD projectors total cost under $2,500 (two Epson 1960 projectors). This video will show you how to build one. See below descriptions for links to buy all materials and parts for this low cost homemade projector stacking bracket.
Cheap DIY 20,000 lumens projector brightness testing, comparsion
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To build this rig you need
Epson 1960 projectors
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Four 1/2-13 threaded Rod 12 inches
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Sixteen ½-13 hex nuts
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Sixteen ½ inch washers
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12X48 Black Shelf board (I cut into two 12X20 pieces)
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Projector mounting screws for Epson 1960 projector screw size is eBay link M4X0.70mm, Length 30mm
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[@Running1226]

My testing of 4 stacked projectors, 20,000 lumens brightness comparison vs 3 vs 2 vs 1 Cheap DIY 20,000 lumens projector brightness testing, comparsion

[@alfredmartin4279]

+Tim Z Hi Tim, I'm considering doing this for a large outdoor movie projection. My budget is a little lower than the $2600 that two Epson 1960s are. I was considering a Benq MH741. This projector 4000 lumens projector is $899 and has "corner fit" correction like the epson, so it should work the same way, right? Thanks

[@Running1226]

+Alfred Martin sorry, I only worked with NEC and Epson projectors before so I know you can move the corners with small increments to make this work. I have never worked with Benq projectors before so I cannot comment on that brand.

[@plavix2215]

One question. How close can you move this rig up to the wall? Like, to achieve a 42 inch image. Is this possible?

[@MostafaMohamed-ev2bt]

Tim Z can you giveaway me old cheap projector I really want to have one on my room if it's ok

[@Jadinandrews]

Could you make a 3d projector like this? If you covered the lenses with opposing filters?

[@Vandueren5]

You could put two different colored gels in front of the lenses to help take the guesswork out of which grid is from which Beamer. Red and green for example. On perfect registration you’ll get yellow lines.

[@dk4wncp]

Brilliant, Filip.

[@z8ty]

I built this rig for a recent event (September 15, 2016) and it works I used it for over 6 hours! There are some caveats though... There are omissions in the video and perhaps they aren't entirely necessary, but would have been nice. 1 - Decide on how you can position your projectors on each board. Mine were mounted using the straight edge of the board to keep each one aligned. Position also has to consider the lens' position left and right. 2 - Create a paper template for the projector mounting points. This will make drilling holes way easier. 3 - Drill the corner holes slightly larger than the threaded rod. You need enough play that the boards do not hang when you move them. 4 - The video implied that tweaking the blending of the two projectors was an easy thing to do. It is not. 5 - As the video states, you must have a projector that allows for corner HDMI adjustments. 6 - Turn off remote control on the upper unit as the video stated. Use the wireless remote for the lower unit. 7 - If you do events, determine how far you need to be away from the screen. Once you have this setup you will not want to move it. This thing is a real pain to setup. I used MDF and the threaded rod would easily get hung up when moving the top board/shelf. It does not double the brightness, but it does make enough of a difference that it is worth the hassle. That is all.

[@TheRickJames]

I was thinking why not invert one of them and use image flip and image shift. That way you could mount them bottom to bottom on a board and rear mount the entire rig using a bracket or something, it would only be slightly bigger than a commercial projector.

[@rustygrant]

Is that because, as with most perception, the relationship between actual brightness and perceived is logarithmic. So a light meter may say something is double brightness but it may only appear 50% brighter

[@ryanvacation7319]

Great job Tim! Our school wanted to get a big projector for our auditorium but the huge ones were just too expensive. This will be a great alternative to try out! Thank you!

[@terrellgill2619]

Absolutely amazing even today I've been stacking Panasonic 6700 for my kids out door movie theater and this helped a lot

[@brenlyd]

This tutorial is AMAZING! Thank you!

[@gabbylgm]

This is a GREAT video. Thank you SO much for taking the time to make such a clear and easy to understand video for no other reason than to help the rest of us!!

[@UnityOfChattnooga]

Absolutely brilliant! Thank your for saving us $14,000+. This makes so much sense, yet I would have not thought of it. You have been of tremendous service - thank you!

[@alexcaminiti]

Incredible idea. Thanks for this. Well done.

[@marcoaurelioandrade2693]

Absolutely amazing! Congratulations and thanks for sharing!

[@inmodulo]

Thanks for sharing Tim, I help out in a school and during plays our rear projection screen does not pump out enough light to contrast with our theater lights, I think Ill have a go at this.

[@owin385]

Just what I'm looking for. Thanks for sharing.

[@thisisadebrown]

Well done for coming up with this solution... And thank you for sharing it

[@CarlStreet]

Very creative; good thinking; excellent presentation. Thank YOU!

[@jasonpatzke]

Thank you so much for posting this Tim!. I was able to stack two of the Epson 1940W projectors and use them on a 14' x 8' da-lite rear projection screen. This worked well at two events for over 1,000 viewers where we had no control over the lighting.

[@jasonpatzke]

Just want to add that this series of Epson projectors are Excellent for the price.

[@Running1226]

Jason Patzke Nice 8400 lumens! Glad you took time to make this work for you.

[@sweldon61]

Great idea, man! What a clever way to accomplish the task!

[@rockyrodriguez2351]

Great tip for saving Ken.

[@joeriviera1053]

Awesome Thanks very brilliant. I save $1000 of dollars thanks to you Tim

[@BWFNightOwlsLabPROductions]

Great vid Tim! THX for posting!

[@wilborth5th]

I absolutely love your video it’s smart and gracious fun to watch as well, thank you

[@Indowill]

This is brilliant. Well done!

[@djsdaddlimitededition9809]

We used to do that same thing with two 10k's! Though it may have been more for a if one projector goes down the other one still running sort of deal.

[@dlpreviews6555]

Thats pretty cool. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

[@dcartier100]

I do a large Christmas display at my home for Angels for Animals and Toys for Tots. THANK YOU for this video. Very simple, practical and effective. Its solves my problem and opens all kind of doors and creative processes. Thank you for sharing.!!!!

[@MrDuckydoo]

Thank you for sharing this it's very helpful!

[@simonmikkelsen]

Great idea. Great execution of it.

[@TheRickJames]

Wow I cant believe I've never thought of this, thank you!

[@bungalowtomcat1]

would it be possible to stack 2 panasonic pt-dw5100u any ideas if they have corner keystone correction?

[@yujaliria8486]

Very Smart and well prepared

[@WaterfrontEnt]

Awesome!!! Thank you for sharing!

[@Vetor8Br]

Very good. Thanks Tim!

[@MarcoCastiglioneVisualArtist]

You are a genius! Thanks a lot!

[@antoniomagdaleno6474]

Great and so easy thanks to you

[@sterlingteaches]

Great video, now to experiment with multiple projectors

[@Jason102280]

very professional video! i may be using your solution in the near future.

[@2204pc]

bravo man, you rock. very well done video. thank you.

[@Jerrel.A]

Nice idea and innovative. Thx!

[@user-hm8xi5zt5c]

Saving this video thank you for your insight! Tim Z!

[@NEWNEW-bc9qk]

Lovely inventions

[@GrahamToal]

I'd be interested to see this technique with a couple of polarizing filters for a proper (non-interleaved) 3D projection using the passive glasses that they have in the cinema (as opposed to the expensive shutter glasses used on 3D TVs and 3D projectors). I guess it would depend on getting video that is separable into two synchronised streams and finding a polarizing filter that isn't too dark and doesn't melt in front of the lenses...

[@fwlcincshaneosborne7700]

GREAT BUILD SIR!!

[@christopherbrannon4278]

Great DIY. Thanks for sharing. :)

[@anishaimagesolutions6097]

Great build!

[@AZTechLabs]

very creative. Nice work!

[@smickster]

Ingenious! Thanks!

[@sjorpha]

Nice tutorial, it seems to me that projectors with vertical lens shift would be better suited for this, as there would be no need for digital keystoning and thus no loss of quality.

[@jedhigh6798]

Awesome build bro!!

[@weeral1]

Very cool. I would have made the shelves out of thin aluminum with holes, and made them closer together. Everything else was new to me though. Good job.

[@mikex8254]

I have the cree x2000vx rgb 88watts led projector and its pretty bright and with higher wattage rgb leds and different lense options it could of easily been manufactured for large venue use at similar cost.

[@iconaclastor]

Great set up especially for a basic dual platform for the projectors. For those who argue the technical aspect of getting 10,000 lumens from two 5,000 lumen projector, I say the main point is you are getting a stronger picture for way less than a 10,000 lumen projector cost wise. Wonder what a light meter would read for the two projectors verses just for one?

[@TheXergon]

The lumen meter will just measure double the brightness. It´s your eyes perception which is applying a gamma curve / log scale.

[@user-hm8xi5zt5c]

Awesome stuff 😎👍 nice work!

[@BayAreaEventDesigns]

amazing great video Tim. I most definitely subscribe and like. thank you so much.

[@jabezwray5125]

Thanks!

[@Borricua0605]

Man ur a smart man would gave figured that out by the time of the end of the world life or death situation. But in today's time things r very costly and it pays to have time and patience ! You made this look easy and it is with ur instructions u save a lot if people with the resources and not enough money achieved the goal they thought they were sold when we buy a decent projector but double two into one to combine light into time and sync them we might be closer to time travel then we think!!!!!

[@speaktruth.7458]

Awesome video thanks

[@naria2006]

very smart. cheap and effective solution. This design is amazing. during a movie event when 1 projector light bulb died u still can continue to watch the rest of the movie with half the brightness. The $13,000 projector cant do that. So, your design is a winner over the more expensive one. nicely done.

[@devonbryant1707]

most 13k plus projectors are dual bulb

[@hshdhbrhehe3080]

Great video

[@JerryPrado]

Very clever.

[@MrAlexgronda]

very good video

[@saucerfulofsecrets7218]

Fantastic!

[@kenthatfr]

Very cool

[@Payo1909]

Thank Uu, This is Great...

[@jackbhaltazar8006]

Wow.... so helpfull idea

[@SUBtrauma]

Good content, thank you

[@brianr987]

Interesting idea

[@HotelCharliHill]

God bless you in your ministry :)

[@waynecampbell6448]

Nice Job

[@MrKlanglane]

Hi Tim nice video sharing. By the way, do you know to use the 2 projectors to produce a 3D image by using passive 3D glasses instead of using active 3D glasses? Tks.

[@chocolatetasteslikechocola2404]

fantastic 🙂

[@cesarfabianalonso]

Hi, the truth is that this video I did not see anywhere and the idea is great, thanks for sharing and I will put it into practice friend thanks :)

[@shadowofpalms]

Great tutorial! Thanks for showing us this. I think this will be very useful to many people. I know it will be a big help to me. Thanks again

[@rodrigomiguelpacheco6494]

Muy bueno

[@AQM_Liinus_zockt]

Even more comfortable it's with NEC Stacking correction tool, which is supported by several of their projectors. Allows to stack up to 4 devices.

[@visualmars]

REALLY?! That's actually really useful since I have a bunch of NECs lying around.

[@manciclon]

Verry good ideea

[@thechinadesk]

Good idea.

[@TheEnrieb]

Thanks for these videos about stacking projectors. I have only just come across the concept of stacking, so this is great information for me. For more stability in the stacking stand, I would suggest that if you installed a second Nut below the Nut that sit under the platform you are adjusting, the second Nut would prevent the first Nut from any movement due to vibration or thermal changes overtime. I used to make aircraft parts and we would use this double Nut method to ensure the Jigs would not lose their tolerance. You will adjust the bottom Nut as demonstrated in this video and then when you have it in the right place you can secure it by tightening the second Nut up against the first, that way the first Nut will remain in the perfect position.

[@kasperaustin]

Great

[@onstageband163]

wow! ur knowledge it really helps me

[@Running1226]

ON STAGE CEBU Thanks, let everyone here know how this works out for you. Just make sure your projectors can do corner keystone.

[@jollydiaries2545]

Good job👍🏻👍🏻

[@SCHaworth]

this is clever

[@whitefalcon74]

this would also be a great 3D set up but you would need a few more items like an aluminum screen and good polarizing filters

[@vidhyadharnani]

Hi Tim Do you think I can use the same technique to project on an 1.43 screen by stacking two projectors, I'm not sure how should I edge blend them, Considering I'm using 4k cinema projectors

[@TracyEvansProductions]

Great work Tim. Nice rig. This is a tried and true method to get more brightness from projection systems and your DIY rig is a very economical approach. Please note however that doubling the number of projectors does not double the lumens. The brightness increases logarithmically, not linearly. So two 5,000 lumen projectors equal something around 8,500 lumens as I recall (perhaps another commenter could do the math for us based on the Inverse-Square Law.) Each projector added brings less of an increase, with greatly diminishing returns beyond 4 projectors.

[@DR0NE_BEE]

Nice info. Still Close enough. 1.7 times brighter then :P

[@danilorosich]

Combined brightness will be 10,000 lumens, however our eyes and ears perceive a doubling in sound or light output on a logarithmic scale. Hope this answers some questions and clears any confusion!

[@dk4wncp]

The crux of your statement is correct, @Tracy Evans, but brightness is indeed doubled. It's the eye's PERCEPTION that doesn't see "double" the brightness, as @Astor Rosic pointed out before.

[@TheXergon]

Tracy: you are just plain wrong. Most people in the event business have this point of view, but it just isn´t true. Use a lumen meter and check it for yourself...

[@meowza3k]

I don't need 2 projectors. But that platform is "top shelf" nice.

[@brucelafleur6446]

really cleaver

[@nitrott6801]

Very goood 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@tommyb.6064]

I would had tryed to mount them with the top one upside down and slide shifted so the lenses comes alinged each other and to reduce the gap between each of them at the minimum ( top to top) projector, almost touching. That way, alignment would make more sense as the light sources would become almost near as a single light souce.

[@russellgrover8489]

For people who say this doesn't work my guess is they never buy anything with more than one bulb, LED flash lights, photo lighting etc, because more bulbs never add more light. laugh. :) and their car has one head light only. ;) so what if lumens aren't exact. give the guy credit for saving money. great job. God Bless

[@2011Savere]

Exactly. I can't stand people sometimes. Always critical. They are commenting on the guys video showing them it works and how he did it. You can't win. Thumbs up to him.

[@BonesBroken]

Russell Grover Some people just love talking shit. I think this mans work and video explaining his process is extremely well done, fair play and thumbs up..

[@BrilensTECH]

Good way

[@bappyroy6941]

Need to know how to alignment projector by stereoscopic player or other way?

[@alanocosta86]

what u think about using 2 mirrors to make a shortrhow projector? the firt image will be inverted...the second mirror will solve the proble?

[@sublimesolutions5815]

Cool

[@TheGeneralkrank]

its like setting the register on a printing press

[@tonyn101583]

How did you drill out the holes for projector mounting screws? Did you use a template?

[@MrKlanglane]

It's ok, thanks.

[@MechnoSferatu]

I think that this is a great solution. The only caveat that I'd offer is that you are taking a hit to contrast. But the proof is in the projection and I'm sure that when you're using your 2x or 4x rig, the image looks better and better for your application the more of the projectors you turn on. When you're chaining projectors, have you noticed any lag in signal further down the chain? Or is the 4th projector's signal still seemingly in sync with the first one?

[@Running1226]

I used short VGA cables chain them from one projector to the next and did not experience any lag. I did run into problems with weak signal when I try to run long VGA line to the projector. That problem can be solved by buying a low cost 1 to 2 or 1 to 4 Powered VGA Splitter Amplifier amzn.to/2vJZ344

[@suckmyassloser3641]

This is a cool solution. Sounds like someone should sell an auto aligning projector system where you can have from one to 4 projectors for various venues.

[@GT5Player]

They do, it's called autostack.

[@ryanfahey416]

suckmyassloser ik Sony does for their $60,000 projector 💀

[@paulbreen911]

Projector alignment is spot on, but 2 x 5k does not equate to 10k. Stick a meter on it and you will see that you'll only actually get around 7.5k ANSI. Don't take my word for it though, try it yourself.

[@sayerman]

+Paul Breen noone cares

[@VinCentiments]

+sayerman burn lol

[@christophmayer8128]

@@sayerman I care

[@jodrafting]

does anyone know the screen size possible to achieve with excellent quality.

[@danilorosich]

Combined brightness will be 10,000 lumens, however our eyes and ears perceive a doubling in sound or light output on a logarithmic scale. Hope this answers some questions and clears any confusion!