I have Rca HD50LPW62A that I recieved from a friend of mine. When I got it all I had was sound coming out of it and no picture. Well I preceded to buy a lamp for it and that didn't work. So I went to buy a ballast and that finally got it to work. Well after a couple of days of watching tv the color wheel started to squealing like a pig getting ready to be butchered! I then went into the tv and got the color wheel out and got it to stop squealing by using KROIL and cleaning it out on the inside. Well after that and getting it back in the housing the lamp wouldn't fire when the color wheel started to spin. It went like this.
1) I cleaned the color wheel and left it outside of the housing to make sure the color wheel would spin freely.
2) Plug the tv in and after the fans started the color wheel would spin.
3) But after the color wheel started to spin the lamp should come on but it did not!
4) Now granted the lamp did come on before it just baffled me when it didn't.
5) Since it didn't I grabbed my spotlight that I use for working on my car with and shined it where the color wheel sits and low and behold the lamp came on.
6) All the time the color wheel is spinning. It would go out everyonce and awhile but for the most part it would spin.
7)Now once I remove the spotlight away from the housing where the color wheel sits, the lamp goes out and the color wheel stops spinning.
Does anyone know what is going on with the lamp or why its not firing on its own? Is there something I need to look at besides something with the lamp or the ballast because seem to work. It just seems like there is something else wrong here. So if anyone has any ideas please shoot them at me because I woul to get my tv back! And Thank You for looking at my post in advance!
