[TechAssist] Re: Hitachi LCD50V500 light engine
- From: "Damon" <damon101@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 06:45:14 -0500
Dang! It must be the salt air down there......I have yet to replace a
ballast or have a repeat failure of a lamp. Time will tell.
Damon Brunger
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From: "Wayne Vanaman" <Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:24 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Hitachi LCD50V500 light engine
| If my expierence with Sony is any indication, the ballast must be replaced
| or you (he) will keep going through lamps.
|
| Wayne Vanaman
| Omega Electronics
| 6904 W Fairfield Dr
| Pensacola, Fl. 32506-3310
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| Wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| WWW.PensacolaTVRepair.Com
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| From: "tvservice" <tvservice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 6:16 PM
| Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Hitachi LCD50V500 light engine
|
|
| > You want to hear something
| > I got a customer here with Panasonic LCD Projo
| > It's 2 years old he replaced the lamp himself @ 1 year ago, he paid $400
| us
| > Now he needs lamp thermal fuse (looks like type for inside power
| > transformers and microwave ovens)
| > I couldn't find any numbers on it. Panasonic won't give info, says have
to
| > replace lamp ballast assembly $300 us retail.
| > Plus he opted to buy extra lamp $399.
| > so this $1.00 fuse is going to cost him $680 for service call, labor,
| > ballast plus the lamp.
| > He's pissed !
| >
| > Robert
| > tvservice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > H & H Electronics Inc
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Paul" <dntwntv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 5:32 PM
| > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Hitachi LCD50V500 light engine
| >
| >
| > > Your right Jim about user replacements. However I just did a Samsung
| DLP
| > over the weekend. Had to drive 120 mi. round trip. Customer (woman)
didn't
| > want to put it in so Smsung paid me to do it. Another question where is
| the
| > customer going to get those lamps. I'm sure they can, but not like going
| to
| > the local Hdwe. They will have to come from the Mfr I suppose and that
| isn't
| > terribly convenient. I just called to see what that samsung lamp cost.
It
| is
| > $210.?? our cost. Didn't ask what retail was but say it is around
$300.00.
| > That is still rather costly and have to put it in themselves.
| > > Paul
| > > Jim Myers <jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| > > We haven't sold any lamps either, all that we have replaced have been
| > > under warranty. They are all user replaceable as far as I know so
there
| > > probably won't be any "lamp+service call+labor=big bucks situations
| > > unless you have a user who doesn't want to replace it and is willing
to
| > > pay to have it done. As a matter of fact one manufacturer says it is
| > > user replaceable even when under warranty and won't pay a servicer to
| > > replace it, probably all will be that way soon. Free Samsung and
Zenith
| > > parts? Not in this part of the world but we do get full credit when
the
| > > dud is returned for a warranty repair.
| > >
| >
|
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| > ***************************************
| > > Since 1972
| > > Jim Myers
| > > Telrad Electronics
| > > Fort Wayne, Indiana
| > >
| > > Paul wrote:
| > > > Hi Jim,
| > > > I have replaced Samsung DLP parts and Zenith Plasma parts and they
| send
| > the parts out, no charge. I wouldn't return a $1.00 dud either. Walter
| Wood
| > thought it must have been a printing error but this came verbally from
the
| > parts supplier, Andrews Electronics. BTW you mentioned a lamp retail
price
| > being that much, ($700.00) I thought they were closer to $ 300-$ 400. I
| > haven't replace any that were not under warranty yet, so haven't
checked.
| > But if you have replace any that were not under warranty and charged
that
| > much, how did the customer react ? Can't imagine paying that kind a
repair
| > bill along with service call and labor and being happy about it.
| Especially
| > on set that is less than two or three years old. At the rate that they
are
| > needing to be replaced already, this could, I think, end up in a class
| > action suit. Unless the mfrs change their policy on lamps.
| > > > Paul
| > > >
| > > > Jim Myers wrote:
| > > > Not Hitachi but we have replaced light engines in Sony, Samsung and
| RCA
| > > > and they cost a lot more than that! I wonder if the Hitachi light
| engine
| > > > would fit the RCA? That sounds more like the retail price of the
lamp.
| > > > Sony charges 1.00 dud on their lamp but I don't return them when it
| > > > would cost 5 or 6 $'s to get 1 $ back.
| > > >
| >
|
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| > ***************************************
| > > > Since 1972
| > > > Jim Myers
| > > > Telrad Electronics
| > > > Fort Wayne, Indiana
| > > >
| > > >
| > > > Paul wrote:
| > > >
| > > >>Have any Hitachi ASC's replaced the light engine in any of these LCD
| > sets? If so did you order the engine from a distributor and have it
| charged
| > to your account? Amazingly enough this cost $697.94 and the dud charge
is
| > $1.00. Figure that? There must be something that is reusable in that
assy.
| > worth more than $1.00. Maybe the labor is a big factor? I am hoping to
get
| > Hitachi to send me one, but they want me to buy it and reimburse me.
| Thought
| > I would see what others are doing for this.
| > > >>Paul
| > > >>
| > > >>Paul ,B
| > > >>Central TV&Video
| > > >>911W Grand Ave
| > > >>Grover Beach Ca.
| > > >>(805)481-8084
| > > >>
| > > >>
| > >
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