Author: FixYourDLP.com
About FixYourDLP.com
Monday, February 18th, 2008 @ 5:49 pm
FixYourDLP.com is an independent resource for fixing your DLP television. Created by dedicated repairmen and repair women in 2006, we wanted to show you how easy it is to do simple repairs on your televisions. We empower you to do it yourself and give you all the information necessary to help you make the right purchases for your DLP needs.
Beware! Some of the modifications or repairs may require a trained service technician. While we give you a wealth of knowledge on this site, be sure to read carefully all of the articles before attempting to do any work on your own. Working with electronic and electrical components may be hazardous to your heath, which is why we strongly suggest that if you don’t know what you’re doing–leave it to the guys who do this for a living 
We are sponsered by various companies and retailers, so through out our site, you’ll see advertisments for lamps and parts for DLP, ILA, Plasma, and LCD televisions. We endorse them all. Most of the companies we partner with have been around for quite some time and are also good resources should you want to troubleshoot your DLP televisions. In the future, we plan to expand to Plasma (PDP) and LCD because we’ve been getting plenty of email from fans asking us to cover a wider range of televisions. You asked, and we’ll deliver!
Main Blog Contributors:
Annabelle Delauney, FixYourDLP.com
Annabelle has worked in her father’s repair shop for quite a few years. Now in college, Annabelle enjoys writing and watching movies and hopes to one day become an actress, but for now, she helps to maintain a FixYourDLP.com, a blog set up to help people repair their own DLP televisions.
Ali Irani-Tehrani, Discount-Merchant.com (our sponsor)
Ali has been working with television repair for years and met Annabelle’s father a few years back. He helps to sponsor the site and sells bare lamps to the public and to service centers. It was one of Ali’s goals to make this information available to the general public, which has helped thousands across the world learn more about DLP technology and troubleshoot their own televisions. Ali’s company is a NESDA member and has great customer service on parts for televisions–not to mention super low prices.
If you have any questions of comments, feel free to email the webmaster Annabelle Delauney at adelauney84 (at) hotmail.com
Thanks for visiting FixYourDLP.com!!!
Samsung HLN-5065W Single flashing Lamp LED. I need to remove the AC power cord to get it to power off and resets the problem. This issue is intermittent but it appears to be happening more offen. I already replaced the bulb and it has 1000 hours.
Standby state.
The picture will automatically appear in about 25 seconds.
I had my Samsung DLP HL-5678W for close t three years and last year a black shadow appears on the screen located along the side. I did not have an extended warranty and I had it service by an independent. According to the repair tech. the cause of his shadow is a mirror that is glued and the it melted and therefore it is misaligned causing the shadows. This repair cause $600.00 and warranted for one year. After a few months of the repair warranty the shadow appears again. It seems to me that this is Samsung defective and/or inferior parts workmanship. After paying an exorbitant amount, I don’t want to do it again. Is there any other solution that I can avail myself regarding this problem?
The part you are referring to is the light tunnel. It’s not an easy fix, and $600 is about fair for the cost of the part and labor. The mirrors are glued internally and if its out of alignment again and again you may need go back to the independent service center. If they’re a good and reputable center, they’ll do the repair for free!
I have an HLS 6187 Samsung DLP which I purchased from Best Buy back in Aug 2006. Warranty expired, and of course did not extend.
Back in Nov 07 I experienced the random shutdowns tat several others have reported. I was disappointed because the tv was just over a year old. Anyway, Samsung did the right thing and covered it by e\replacing the bulb for me. It still baffles me that it went bad in such a short period of time.
Just last Friday before I went out of town the picture, which is norally phenomenla, especially with the new BluRay player, hust suddenly developed kind of a “half screen split of darkness levels. A straightline split of dark on one half and brighter on the other. The split has actually moved to the left several inches and then back. I ave vacuumed the back, reseated the bulb, check all connections, even disconnecting everything, and turning it on to the menu and the dark shaded side is still there.
i replaced a color wheel. i put everything back together. turned on the tv bam the lamp light is blinking. so i replaced the lamp and the lamp light is still on. i am very frustrated. how do i no if the colorwheel is good. should i go back and take the colorwheel out.
Did you reset the lamp counter? Did you close the back cover? Those are common problems with Samsung DLPs. Are you replacing the color wheel for a Sammy or an RCA or a Mitsubishi?
Dennis, that sounds like a light tunnel. The walls of the light tunnel are lined with mirrors glued onto the side. One of the mirrors is probably falling off the sides, thus the section of darkness that seems to be moving. It has nothing to do with the lamp. That may have to be checked out by a repair shop. Unfortunately the light tunnels aren’t an easy fix.
I have a Pananasonic PT44lcx65 TV and i just replaced the lamp with the housing TY - LA1000, how do you reset the lamp counter on this TV.
OK-
SO you CLAIM the OSRAM lamp for my Sony XL5100 is of lessor quality than the Phillips units-
If so WHY won’t the Discount-Merchant folks( or SONY)put their money ( and warranty) where your mouth is.
I can purchase the OSRAM replacement from multiple vendors
with a ONE YEAR warranty- NOT the 90 day wonder the DM folks (and SONY for that matter) warrant the Phillips units for.
In the 2 years I’ve owned my SXRD(model KDS-R60XBR1) I’ve had to have the Optical block replaced and am on the THIRD lamp.
The last one ( XL5100 with housing from SONY) lasted 140 days before it crapped out. The first one ran less than 2100 hrs.
In that regard I will NEVER purchase a SONY product again- they seem to have “lost the ball” in both product quality and customer service.
SO again if the Phillips unit is so freaking good why won’t ANYONE BACK IT UP with a superior warranty?
I suspect SONY didn’t chose the best bulb but the cheapest one. I’ve spent WAY too many years in the engineering business not to know that the purchasing pukes selected the lamp vendor NOT the engineering dept.
Thanks for the info on this site but I had to comment on the unabashed
hype regarding alternative lamp vendors.
Best regards,
Paul, these lamps are great technology, but as you know, so many things can go wrong with a television, or any electronic device for that matter. Discount-Merchant does warranty lamps over eBay for 1 year. The reason other retailers seem to warranty Osram for a year is because they are really cheap and the markups are really high. Discount-Merchant.com doesn’t have outrageous markups. The warranty from DM is both fair and better than most vendors. I think you’ll agree that 6 months is quite a long time, and if a lamp doesn’t last you 6 months, you need a new television. These Philips lamps are great, and with average use, they’ll last for years! Osrams aren’t bad, but they aren’t Philips. I think people are generally biased or prejudice to think that because a product is made in China, it’s inferior. NEWS FLASH, almost all of our electronic components are made in China. Most plastic pieces in your car are made in China. I’m typing on a Microsoft keyboard that’s made in China. I just hate when people say don’t buy Chinese knock-offs since the real components ARE FROM CHINA!!!
SAMSUNG HLN 5065W. AFTER APPROX. 90MINS. OF OPERATION. SCREEN STARTS FLASHING LIKE LIGHTNING. ANY IDEA. THANX.