Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

[synaesthesia]

I've inherited this Hitachi set faulty, and it's blinking the standby light - it turns on, power LED flashes and then turns off. Panel appears to be OK, it lights up and the Hitachi logo appears before it powers off. I've checked as much as I can, bearing in mind I'm merely a hobbyist with minimal equipment and can't see anything obvious. Annoyingly it's a pain in the backside to get to the double row of connections between the psu and mainboard.

Pics below as well as a vid showing the blinking in case the code is useful - it doesn't show the Hitachi logo coming up as the LCD cable was disconnected.
I've tried it with the backlights disconnected, speakers disconnected and it made no difference. Diodes all appear to be OK as that seems to be a common fault and all capacitors physically look OK.

I don't like replacing PSU's as they're usually a bit easier to diagnose and the mainboards for these are either ruddy expensive or hard to come by, even in smashed TV sets. I suspect people more often than not hurl these straight into skips where they belong! I just don't like giving up

Any help gratefully received!




https://youtu.be/d9m1qpmo7FM

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

You have corrupt firmware, super common. These Tvs are heaps of shite ! Will try and find the firmware flash for you.

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

What is the full model ? 32hxc01 U ?

[synaesthesia]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

Uber, thanks I'd heard that, and couldn't seem to find anything for Hitachi - plenty around for generic Vestel kit and other related brands like Toshiba but not for this. I have an "identical" Vestel mainboard which I believe is a Polaroid variant; doesn't even try to power up with that in, but can't say I'm surprised as I imagine they use different panels etc.

[synaesthesia]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

It's a 32HXC01U B (not sure if the B is relevant)

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

Ok give me 10mins will try and find the firmware

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

Cant find the firmware flash sorry however here is a Mainboard off ebay mate paste the number into ebay:

351463056511

[synaesthesia]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

No worries, thanks for looking. I did indeed see that one but didn't fancy dropping twice the worth of the telly on a mainboard I'll probably just flog it as spares/repair and let some other poor fool worry!

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

I might be that poor wooly haha if you could send it via courier would give you a fair amount for it ?

[synaesthesia]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

More than welcome if you like £20 plus postage (will have to work that out) and I'll throw in the Polaroid mainboard too, looks like you're a glutton for punishment!

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Haha nice one How do you want to do the transaction ? Pm me if you want and will send me email over.

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Even though these are heaps of trash people seem to snatch them up, over the last two weeks I have sold two Vestel Led Tvs with out even having to advertise them haha

[synaesthesia]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

Watched a video where someone said exactly that - probably one of yours come to think of it! As soon as someone sees something like "LED" "TV" and any name they wrongly take to mean high quality (Hitachi, Polaroid, Blaupunkt, Wharfdale, Toshiba, Apple) and it's snapped up

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Yep all of them are trash, people think they are buying a good Tv from a repeatable manufacture. When the reality is they are buying supermarket generic trash

[synaesthesia]

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And a good day for it as well, wasn't it Black Friday last year when thousands of muppets were fighting over supermarket TV's that were barely worth their sale price?

[ReeceyBurger123]

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I know its mental how people do this, they behave like animals for what a Vetsel or Umc trash Tv for £40 cheaper lol

[comptek]

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i have one here theres no b at the end i dont think
how do i copy the firmware off of it ??????

[ReeceyBurger123]

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Theres two versions of this Tv Gary. The U version and the UB.

[comptek]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

Theres two versions of this Tv Gary. The U version and the UB.

mines the "U" no B
how do you copy nvram etc off of these and other vestel crap anyone know?

[ReeceyBurger123]

Re: Hitachi 32HXC01 - another Vestel joke

Hmm cant find anything at all bud, you have an epprom anaylser if not send OHM supplies a message they probably have the firmware.