So maybe I've been living under a rock, but it's never crossed my mind that a full
HD projector like this guy could be completely portable with no power cable or anything. It's
like a mobile gamer's dream. This video is sponsored by Nebula. They send me this guy
for the holidays. I'll be showing off how the projector works as well as taking it
apart so we can take a look at it from the inside, and hopefully find those batteries.
Nebula has given me some massive discount codes which I'll put down in the video description.
They are only active for a couple days. We've taken apart a cell phone projector before but
never the real thing, so this should be pretty interesting. Let's get started.
[Intro]
The Nebula projector is full HD, 1080p, and completely battery powered. It's got a tripod
mounting point at the bottom as well as an adjustable footplate that can control tilt,
along with an HDMI USB-C and regular USB on the back. When it's charged up it has over three
hours of battery life, meaning you can take this projector camping or on road trips or anywhere
where a power source won't be close by. We'll be finding those internal batteries in a second. The
Nebula projector has 400 ANSI lumens and an auto focus for super quick setup no matter how far away
the projector is from the wall or screen. It's running the Android TV 9 operating system which
gives access to YouTube, Hulu, and a plethora of other apps including mirroring or chromecasting
content from your smartphone. And like with most projectors it definitely works best in a dimly
lit or dark room. The screen size is personal preference of course, but I found that the 1080p
image looked best in the 50 to 55 inch range. But it can go up to 120 inches in a dark room.
The Nebula projector automatically corrects the vertical keystone.
So it's really easy to just plop it down and have it work. At some point this summer
I think it would be fun to take my mobile gaming outside. So instead of pocket sized,
gaming will be life-sized...you know, Breath of the Wild out in the wild.
There is a button on top of the projector that will turn it into a Bluetooth speaker.
But I think we've seen enough of this exterior stuff. And now it's
time to see how the projector works and how big that battery is inside.
There are 6 screws holding two halves of the projector together. You would think that a
projector would be simple inside...a bulb, some batteries, and a motherboard. But it's actually
rather complex and awesome looking as you'll soon see. Once the halves are unclasped I can
unclip the front focusing camera, which helps the projector lens do that auto focus thing. Then each
of the side mounted Dolby audio speakers has three screws holding them in place. Each speaker is
three watts. No visible batteries just yet, but we do get a glimpse of the rather epic cooling
system. Normally we only see cooling systems like this in high end laptops or gaming consoles.
There are some screws holding down dual motherboards with dual ribbons that will unclip
just like little Legos. Then I can pull out the red, green, and blue signal wires from the side
of the board. After those are out and the board is flipped up, we still can't see any batteries. But
we do see that there is a small motor physically controlling the focusing of that camera lens,
moving it forward and backward with its large plastic gears.
Kind of fun. I'll slide off the other motherboard revealing a massive fan.
This guy is powerful. It pulls air in from the side vents and pushes it out the back
through these aluminum vents to cool down the heat pipes that are coming from that 400 ANSI
lumen bulb at the front. ANSI means American National Standards Institute, meaning that the
lumens have been measured and verified and not just a random number thrown out there.
With the fan gone, there are still no batteries. But, as a man of science,
I know invisible batteries don't exist just yet so let's keep going.
There are more screws than I can count surrounding the lens and heat pipe system. But once that is
out I can finally get access to the final set of screws surrounding the bottom plastic cap.
And once those are out we finally found it – the battery pack.
The brawn of this projector that allows it to illuminate for three hours on a single charge.
It's a 10 volt 73 watt hour pack. And if my guess is correct, and I stab it right about here,
we can see that it's made up of six 18650 cylindrical cells, just like
laptops and electric cars. It takes about seven thousand of these to power an electric car,
so theoretically if you bought 1,000 Nebula projectors, each with its 6 cells inside,
you would be able to build your own electric vehicle. I mean, we'd still be missing a few
components, like a motor, charger, and the rest of the car, but we'd be off to a good start.
With everything reassembled it looks like our Nebula projector is still functioning
just like normal, with the auto focus and everything. Kind of fun to open up something new.
I'll leave a link for this projector and discount codes in the video description. And huge thanks to
Nebula and Anchor for sponsoring this video. Hit that subscribe button if you haven't already. Come
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