Projector Installation

PROJECTOR INSTALLATION & DISTANCE GUIDELINES

Projectors must be mounted at the correct height and distance—if not, they won’t fill the screen properly, and you'll need digital correction, which degrades image quality.

Use this calculator link: Projector Central Distance Calculator
  • Enter your projector model.
  • Set image size to HEIGHT (ignore diagonal/width)
  • Enter the height of your screen (our enclosure screens have 9cm borders so subtract 18cm from the total height). For custom screens just enter full screen height
  • Tick the box that says "Ceiling Mount"
  • Use the suggested throw distance as an ESTIMATE ONLY —This can be used to add your mounting beam or roughing in the electrics

The 3 Golden Rules of Installation:

  1. HEIGHT – Projector lens must be at the same height as the top of the screen. Set the projector mount height so that once installed, the projector sits level with the screen’s top edge. If you have a sloped roof, you may need to follow step two first, to see how much length you need on the mount

  2. DISTANCE – Turn on the projector (plugged into your PC), and walk it backwards ensuring the lens is on the centreline (use a laser) with the mount attached to it. The correct position is when the top and bottom edges of the screen are filled perfectly. Side spill is fine—we fix that next. Once you are holding it in the right position, get someone else to draw around the mount so you know exactly where to mount it.

  3. WIDTH – Once the projector is mounted, go into the NVIDIA Control Panel on your PC. Create a custom resolution and reduce the horizontal resolution until the projected image fits the screen side-to-side.

IMPORTANT NOTE: 
Do NOT use zoom, keystone, or other correction modes. If something isn’t lining up, it means something in steps 1–3 wasn’t done correctly.
You may use 1–2 notches of vertical keystone only if you're unable to get the projector perfectly level with the top of the screen