It was a finicky job, but efm-7 replaced the cooked ICs and some of the resistors on the convergence board and our Hitachi TV is now working perfectly again. I’ll have to do a manual convergence soon and see how much better I can make the picture. Not all of the resistors were changed, so we’ll see if the system holds up. Thanks efm-7!
… and what an emotional roller-coaster that was. She was parked in the South Keys Future Shop parking lot when we spotted her from about 25m away — the dents on the roof line confirmed it was her.
We looked her over carefully and noted some paint scrapes on the passenger side, (more…)
Did some more searching last night and managed to find a service manual for our Hitachi 43UWX10B in PDF format, along with other reports of this convergence system failure on other TVs of this type and vintage. This morning, I popped off the back panel and confirmed the following, which should help with ordering the right parts:
Hopefully, over the coming week, I can find all parts, learn how to solder and de-solder, and effect the repair.
Update: Parts ordered! Got two kits with the newer STK992-150 chips for $112.92USD shipped.
Over the course of the last few weeks, our Hitachi Rear-Project HDTV has been increasingly mis-focussing its blue gun, resulting in blue and yellow shadows on screen. At 43″ and 153 pounds, we can’t just take it in for service, so the cost of simply getting an estimate could be high, given the need for a tech to make housecall. (more…)
Thanks to the weather, there was little show, even less bbq, and absolutely no shine, but there was tons of laughter and good times (more…)
