If you have not been following the recent chit-chat about the Hitachi light engine go back and read those posts, you'll probably learn all you need too realize it's either a bad lamp or a bad ballast. Have you tried reseating the lamp in it's socket? ******************************************************************************************************************* Since 1972 Jim Myers Telrad Electronics Fort Wayne, Indiana armando guerra wrote: > Is anyone familiar with the above set ? My first dlp to work on.When > powered up,the front power led will blink for a few seconds and than > after that,the led that say's lamp will come on.I can hear the fan > running.The lamp can be easly removed by removing the speaker grill and > than a small cover in which inside of the encloser is the lamp.It pulls > off its socket.I don't want to replace the lamp unless I am sure that > its the problem since they are pretty costly,about $400.00 our cost.What > would be the procedure to see if the lamp is bad or whether to find out > if it is getting its power source to lite it up.Not familiar at all. > Maybe an asc tech with panasonic can give me some info or someone that > has exp.with this type of tv's. Thank you very much. > Mando > Birdie's TV & Electronics > Casa Grande, AZ > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lost Password: > http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/