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Light engine Our Panasonic t.v. keeps saying it needs the air filter cleaned out but we cant find the air filter too clean it. We just replaced the lamp about 2 weeks ago. Please help us!!

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  • dvrao Dec 27, 2007

    exact same asTincker's. I am stumped. Could use help such as engineering drawings of the TV. Dasari

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Hi there sorry for the late post i am actually new to here so thats why this is such a late response i too have this same problem this specific unit has 3 air filters in it all located on the projection unit which needs to be removed to remove the projection unit you first mus take the back panel off then remove the ballast cba next you ned to remove the tv/tuner unit and finally the projection unit can be removed its over on the right you will notice it very easily there is a rather large fan connected to it and once youve got that out carefully clean the 3 filters on the unit replace and you should be good to go this is coming directly from a service manual if any one needs the manual go ahead and pm me and i will get you the manual

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  • Anonymous Nov 29, 2011

    VERY BAD IDEA ! Call a REAL Technician if you care about your TV.

  • Anonymous Nov 30, 2011

    Bad idea? Not even I was able to do this myself with the manual in about an hour and a half tops and have not had a single problem since. This is a website to help people hence the reason I provided some information about the topic, but you have some people like esnapp40 here who have nothing contribute other than complain and think they know more than people who have actually done this. This is supposed to be a helpful community so if you are not going to help or don't have any questions about it why are you even posting and being so negative? The price a technician will charge to solve this simple problem will cost you more than what the tv is worth it's a SIMPLE fix just looks complicated.

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    directmatche Feb 13, 2012

    Joseph can you please get me the manual?

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