Sony GWII lamp life

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"Chuck Olson" <chuckolson01@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
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> This last weekend my 60" Sony GWII LCD projection set started turning off
> every 5 minutes, with a flashing LED on the front panel. I didn't try to
> figure out what the LED was trying to tell me. I just got out the User's
> Manual and followed the directions to replace the XL-2000U lamp. The
> replacement went smoothly since I taped the Allen wrench bag to the lamp
> door under the right hand cover when the TV was installed in Jan 2003, so
> didn't have to hunt it down. Lamp brightness didn't dim very much prior to
> the failure, and I calculate I received about 4000 hours of trouble-free
> performance from the original lamp. This seems kind of short, but what can
> you do? I guess I'm lucky I had just bought a replacement lamp 2 months
> before. Of course I immediately placed an order for another lamp.
>
> Chuck

When you get the new lamp, put it in and use it for the 90 day warranty
period to make sure that it is good. If it is bad you don't want to
discover that 2 years from now when the distributor won't honor any warranty
on it.

Leonard

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"Matthew L. Martin" <nothere@notnow.never> wrote in message
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> Richard wrote:
> >
> > This is why Sony is introducing three LED's to replace the one lamp.
Much
> > longer life and better color are said to be the benefits. No, you can't
> > upgrade current sets.
> >
>
> Surely you mean three sets of LED arrays. As bright as modern LEDs are I
> find it hard to believe that three are sufficient to illuminate a 60"
> screen.

The post about the 3 LED's replacing one lamp sounds as though it might be a
confusion over Sony's use of three LCD panels, instead of one, in their LCD
RP HDTV's. One lamp, though.

mack
austin