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