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dummy,

I know Discount-Merchant.com charges a core and they have the capability of either repairing them or sending back to the factory for replacements. From my understanding, the ICs need to be replaced and you need some pretty expensive equipment to do the job well.

Agent,

Would be interesting to find out, was your lamp originally a Philips or a Matsushita? These two companies were the OEM lamp manufacturer for all the Hitachis. From most people's experience, the Philips far outlasted the Matsushita bulbs.

thanks!

artohorn, I'm curious, do you have a link to the rest results? Would be interesting to see how dated that review was as these technologies are changing so quickly. It used to be common practice for PLASMAs to have the burn-in effect, for them to overheat, or to consume huge amounts of energy. But th...

dummy (no pun intended!),

can you tell us the model of it? It helps to know if you have a Projection LCD model or a DLP model. It sounds like a Projection LCD but just to be certain

Here's a pic of the X-SUSTAIN BOARD!

WereDOOMED, OK, so your Y Sustain Board is bad...It's also known as the Y-SUS BOARD...depending on which version of the part you have. I dunno if you already found this part but isn't it obvious...D-M.com has it in stock! Does you part look like this? http://www.discount-merchant.com/v/vspfiles/phot...

Nice explanation, couldn't have said it any better. It's also worth noting nearly ALL rear projection TV (RPTV) lamps, with the exception of some Toshiba and AKAI lamps are Alternating Current (AC) lamps. This means the polarization of the power connectors does not matter.

Agent, FixYourDLP.com has nearly all the owner's manuals for ALL RPTV's online...here's the blog article for the Hitachi RPTV Manuals: http://www.fixyourdlp.com/blog/2009/02/25/hitachi-owners-manual-for-your-lcd-tv’s/ Direct link to your particular PDF doc: http://fixyourdlp.com/blog/manuals/Hitachi...

Samsung61,

Yup, you should be fine...they both use the Philips E22 100/120 1.0 UHP lamp. Replacing then would be fine. From my understanding, the BP96-00826A and the BP96-01073A are VERY similar in design...did you try to see if the enclosure fits?

George, This reminds me of an ex girl friend, aarggghh!!! I feel for your buddy. Every manufacturer is different, I've got more experience with the Samsung DLPs, but replacing the front screen should be fairly straight forward, but it can take a few hours! The real problem is sourcing the replacemen...

How many lamps have you gone through (if any). Personally, I haven't heard too many negative things about these TVs...please share your story with your make and model and lamp usage.

How many lamps have you gone through? What's your make and model? Did you lamp EXPLODE or slowly lose it's brightness (this is a characteristic of DC lamps). Please share your stories and troubles on these TVs so we can get the community to solve them!

Make, model, and lamp hours please. Any other additional information about usage and number of turn on/offs per day would be cool to compile.

I've heard of lots of horror stories on other forums, but the information was never compiled properly. Please write your make and model numbers as well as your lamp changing experience. Some people tried to organize a class action lawsuit against JVC a few years ago...I don't know, but if we can get...

I know a lot of people have been having issues with premature lamp failures. Please share your GOOD and BAD stories here. Write your make and model as well as how many hours you've got your your old and new lamp...and how many replacements you've had. People with success in the Panasonic class actio...

Write your make and model information as well as the hours on your old lamp, current lamp, etc. If you guys have suggestions on how to extend the life of these lamps, write this information too!

Write your make, model and hours please. If there are common failing parts, let's try to keep track of these too so we can how up with fixes together!

How many hours do you have on your lamp? What problems have you ran into (Lamp, color wheel, ballast, light engine). Tips and suggestions for other users?

List your make and model TV when replying so we can compile a detailed list of issues and solutions!

How many hours on your TV? On the old lamp, on the current lamp? things you've done to extend the life of your lamp, etc., etc.?

Also, write the model of your TV, maybe we can put some statistics together and do a poll?

Or overall on your RCA DLP TV

Share you story...

Hey Guys...I'm Stephen, a local one man shop/tech in Ventura, California. This is a nice community and I think you guys are on to something great! I would love to participate and getting as many people educated as possible. Just like open-source software, I think we need to stop thinking like we're ...

Can you take a picture so I know exactly what you're talking about? I've got some spare RCA parts...

I've seen this problem time after time. If someone has some time, a write up on this topic will be a great asset for the community. Tired of seeing those 5 blinking lights on your RCA DLP TV? Well, chances are it might not be the lamp but rather your power supply.

Be careful buying anything from eBay...I don't know if anyone is following their stock, but it's at 52 week lows...I wouldn't be surprise if they enforce new policies to increase sales that they would never have considered 5 years ago. Remember the whole idea of eBay being an EVEN playing field for ...

Where can I find this lamp module? Looks like Mitsubishi direct is the only source right now and they want $250+ for it...that's a lot of a lamp in today's economy...hard to sell for my service customers. D-M has it for $169 (super deal) but looks like they are out of stock.

Discount-Merchant.com is a "sponsor" of FixYourDLP.com. They host the domain or somehow compensate the guys at FixYourDLP, whatever the case, I'm purchased from them and their top rate. No compliants. Website online tracking really helps when you've got multiple parts coming in for different custome...

This is a great site and a great idea. Hats off to the folks running it (eddie and anabelle?). I've learned a lot about DLP TVs and great resource for user manuals and general tech help. I think if we can get a handful of knowledge techs to help out with questions we can make these forums a great re...