42 inch Hitachi tv will not turn on is there a fuse inside the set

SOURCE: 42hdt79 Hitachi TV will not power up. Cord is good TV is dead ??

Try the button on the front bottom, under the power button on the front.

SOURCE: Re: Hitachi TV Model 42EDT41 42 Inch

panel defect

SOURCE: Hitachi 42HDS69 42 in. Plasma with red lines

I think you have dry solder joints on the tv. Either on the chroma board, the vertical scan board, the line output board, or on the focus board. If you are going to do this yourself please take all necessary precautions against electric shock and discharge all capacitors that you can as a stray spark from one can cause damage to your tv and yourself. If you are not able to do this find a competant technician. Good luck.

SOURCE: Hitachi Plasma not getting power

I have the same tv with the same problem. I plug it in and press the main power button on the bottom and the orange standby light comes on. Then i have to press & hold the power button on the side for 5 seconds and let go and press once for the blue power light to come on. I still get no picture. I've pressed the menu & input buttons on the side to see if those would open but nothing happens.

Any ideas on that?

thanks in advance
seth

SOURCE: My 42 inch hitachi plasma

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.