HLP6163W problem< New lamp and Color wheel
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:39 pm
I own a Samsung HLP6163WX/XAA DLP HDTV. The problem started like this:
When I'd turn it on, it would always make a strange high-pitched noise several times before it would turn on. This oscillating tone, noise, starts off high pitched and then decreases to a lower pitch several times in succession but starting at a lower pitch at successive times all within a few seconds. At first no problem with the TV. But then the TV started failing to come on but I could get it started by playing around with starting and stopping it with the remote. This problem progressed to various stages with the 3 lights on the start button cycling through it‘s stages. At first the TV would start to work for a while but gradually the problem got worse with clicks and attempted restarts and finally no work at all.
During the course of this I replaced the lamp and the color wheel but the symptoms did not change!
The old lamp and color wheel I believe were good. I don’t think this is the bad color wheel bearing problem that other people have mentioned. The color wheel I took out did not at all appear damaged and the noise is more like a tone that a scraping problem.
Can anybody help? I don’t want to keep putting money into it on guesses.
When I'd turn it on, it would always make a strange high-pitched noise several times before it would turn on. This oscillating tone, noise, starts off high pitched and then decreases to a lower pitch several times in succession but starting at a lower pitch at successive times all within a few seconds. At first no problem with the TV. But then the TV started failing to come on but I could get it started by playing around with starting and stopping it with the remote. This problem progressed to various stages with the 3 lights on the start button cycling through it‘s stages. At first the TV would start to work for a while but gradually the problem got worse with clicks and attempted restarts and finally no work at all.
During the course of this I replaced the lamp and the color wheel but the symptoms did not change!
The old lamp and color wheel I believe were good. I don’t think this is the bad color wheel bearing problem that other people have mentioned. The color wheel I took out did not at all appear damaged and the noise is more like a tone that a scraping problem.
Can anybody help? I don’t want to keep putting money into it on guesses.