Hitachi 42EDT41 42 in. HD-Ready Plasma Television - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

LCDs are worth it to have as to a Plasma set as plasma tvs do need time to warm up LCD and LED tvs dont have that warm up time to wait for things to smooth out however if you wish to have the tv serviced it is fully up to the owner of that TV now mind you there is also OLED tvs out there in the market as well and with the cost of LCD tvs going down to about 500 bucks you might be more interested in that but thats my IMO on buying a TV set

Check and replace damaged component/s at its main power regulator [SMPS] section circuit. Contact any service technician. If you wish to get some details; check the site linked here. Surf the site with patience. Pull up older posts. Do asearch by type in the brand name of your device at its search box. http://electronicshelponline.blogspot.com/ It will be best to replace the power supply regulator board as card basis.

Hello, Is the t.v new or its been some years that you bought it?Have you checked the DC voltages leaving the power supply? If not, let's try that now. Put your red lead on each pin leaving the power supply one at a time, with your black lead on any exposed chassis metal for ground. Stick that red lead down into the connector so the lead makes contact with the pin. Be sure the TV is turned on. It can be a fault in the screen if it is under warranty i suggest you contact the shop or supplier. Best regards, Daniel

Check and replace the main power regulator board [SMPS board] as card basis. Contact any service technician. Gopakumar Gopalan Google

Check whether the AC is present to TV. Try it by an other AC outlet. If it has been working fine, there should be no problem at all.

i have a stand for that tv and live near nashville. still need 1 ?

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Check its backlight inverter board. Visit the site named 'Electro-help' for more details. Click this link. View it in Timeslide or Flipcard option, which can be selected from the drop down box menu by the Sidebar tag, at the top left corner of the display window. You can also click the Home tab to see the latest updates. It will make search easier. There are more than 1400 posts to different brand TVs till now. Setup proceedings and code list to different brand remote controls also included. Pull up older posts or do a search by type in the Brand Name of your device in the Search Box, at the top right of the display window.

Sustain drivers can make this kind of fault. Panel too tshould suspected. Check the site linked below and see the illustraations there. There are illustrations of faulty plasma display panels, which can't be included by this window. Check it and see which type of fault to your TV resemble with. Visit the site named 'Electro-help' for more details. Click this link. View it in "Timeslide" or "Flipcard" option, which can be selected from the drop down box menu by the [Sidebar] tag, at the top left corner of the display window. You can also click the [Home] tab to the latest updates. It will make search easy. There are more than 1350 posts to different brand TVs now. Pull up older posts there.

l would suggest a call to Hitachi customer service if Hitachi or to the maker if not.

This is a more common problem than you think===if goes away it could be a bad solder connection or a physical problem with one of the cables.When sets heat up things expand.It may end up being a case where a board must be located and replaced.I say this as most of these sets use surface mounted IC chips===chips not soldered thru the board but on top or bottom on the surface of the board===some are called flatpacks and contain over one hundred leads (size of a large postage stamp) so close together are the pins a razor blade will not fit between the pins.Bad solder connections here require an expensive de-soldering station that averages over one thousand dollars----cheaper to locate and replace the board in most cases.I am American visiting in Canada for a while, owner here had a working set that they replaced to get a larger one, took it down to basement and it gets a line at first an inch wide in middle until hot.A friend of his had same set which is dead and shortly we will swap boards from that one to his to see if we can find it.Good luck and if set more than 3 years old use is as best you can and look for a replacement.

My Hitachi TV Flat screen 42 EDT 4 1A has a one inch black line from the top to the bottom of the
screen on the left side. What or how do I fix it. I did blow it out with a air compressor as suggested by a local repairman.

You can use a brush to clean the inside and look for any bits or pieces of component in the board. if so this will indicate the component and the relativity to the POP noise. It can be a capcitor shorting and bursting or even a transistor that has popped. The fuse being blown is due to a failure and it can be SHORT in the board. You need to use a multimeter to probe the +B and trace the short, Isolate the sections and it will lead to the shorted ccomponent.

The vertical stipe in the screen is the problem at the harizontal section of the board of your tv.Ethier the parts is leak like the capacitor.Try to replace the old capacitor with the same description or value of the parts.

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Look for fuses on the sustain boards (both Y and Z) and the power supply fuses also.

make correct cable connection and tune the cannels

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I had a similar problem with my 42 in Philips LCD HDTV.

Here was the problem. My Power Supply Board had several bad capacitors. I opened my TV (warranty was expired of course) and found four bulged capacitors on the PSB. Many major electronics companies Philips/Magnavox, Sony, Panasonic, and others were sold capacitors that failed in 2-5 years instead of 10-20. The capacitors fail prematurely due to a lack of preservatives. Unfortunately, they were installed in all sorts of devices and cause a wide range of failure problems.

Here are some options for you.

1. Have it fixed by a professional $$$$$$$??????? (Is it under warranty?)

2. Open your TV and find PSB. (The board that the power cord plugs into) Check for faulty caps. If you find some (bulged or leaking) bad caps replace the entire board. The entire board costs around $250 right now because they are in high demand right now. They can be found at tv-part.com but supplies are limited. I would definitely shop around though.

3. Remove and then replace individual faulty caps. This takes some soldering skill.

Caps are inexpensive and if you can take care of it yourself it will save you hundreds.

This may be your problem. If you determine that it might be.

I have a Tip/How TO tutorial on this site that may also help. It gives step by step instructions for replacing caps on PSB #715t2432-2. If this is your board you are in luck. Here is the Link: Fixing the Philips Turns/shuts off on its own problem. I'm working on uploading pictures to help guide people though the process as well. Let me know if I can do anything to help.

Hope this helps and if it does please rate it accordingly. Good luck.

You have a loose solider joint and it will needto be serviced.

This is a defective Digital control module.