PT-60LC14 no luck with new bulb and ballast


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PT-60LC14 no luck with new bulb and ballast

Postby jcotter27 » Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:20 pm

Greetings!

For a while now, my PT-60LC14 has been shutting off after about 5 minutes of use. As long as I waited a minute or so, I could power it back on and it would stay on for as long as I wanted to watch it. It was a small inconvenience, so I tolerated. I recently received the notification that the bulb needed to be changed. So I purchased a new bulb and installed it. TV fired up and looked great - for a day - then it wouldnt come on. The Lamp LED threw a "ballast error" message (one blink every 5 sec.). I called up place where I purchased the lamp and was informed that, most likely, my ballast was going bad and didnt have enough juice to power up the new bulb. Ok, seemed logical. So, I purchased a new ballast and put the old bulb back in while I waited (tv worked fine with old bulb). New ballast arrived a couple of days ago and had it installed yesterday. I put the new bulb in and it fired up. I reset the hours and turned the TV off. Since then, the TV will not turn back on, its back to throwing the same "abnormal Lamp or Ballast" error that I had when all of this started.

Any suggestions on what to do now? Bulb or Ballast? Something else? Chuck it and start over?

Extremely frustrated.

Thanks for any insight!

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Re: PT-60LC14 no luck with new bulb and ballast

Postby jcotter27 » Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:30 pm

No, no noises. Nothing out of the ordinary outside of what I described in the first post.

I appreciate you inquiring.

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Re: PT-60LC14 no luck with new bulb and ballast

Postby jcotter27 » Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:34 pm

One other thing to note - when it was originally shutting off (when I could wait a minute and turn it back on), from time to time it did throw a "lamp cover open" error message (power light blinking orange twice). But again, nothing with picture or any other noises.

Thanks again.

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Re: PT-60LC14 no luck with new bulb and ballast

Postby jcotter27 » Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:04 pm

A new wrinkle has occurred. . . the "old" bulb finally died, so I am now utilizing the new bulb. The odd thing is that I've found the tv will only turn on if I physicially go in and remove and replace the bulb. It works fine after that, but if I attempt to turn the tv on without first removing and replacing the bulb, it wont turn on. This thing is crazy. Any thoughts?


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