Help: Panny AE-700 died?

Hey guys,

Quick question about what happened to my panny ae-700 a few minutes ago , i turned it on to watch a DVD , while the dvd was playing all the typical FBI warnings and stuff , my PJ suddenly turned off, just like that , no lights are on, not even the usual red "stand-by" light is on. its like its not even plugged to the wall...

and now as i began writing this , it suddenly turned on again... , lasted a good 10s and then off again with no lights whatsoever on it.

i had thought it was a blown fuze, but now that i saw it turn back on again (a blown fuze wouldnt let it turn back on) im leaning towards the PS...

What do ya'll think?

Althought its an ae-700 , its still on its first bulb with around 2200 hrs on it on low-lamp mode.

(back on again as i wrote that last paragragh.... , and off again now.... wth? )

thought i'd post an update

hadn't been back in the forums for the last couple of weeks.

after the initial problems that night, i unplugged my PJ for the night.

plugged it in the next day , it worked fine... watched a full movie (actually an episode of House Season 5 ) . picture looked as good as ever. but when i was done watching it i turned it off (like i always do) but instead of going into its usual 'cool down' process , the projector just went directly to off , like if I had unplugged the cord

next day i turned it on again but then it turned itself off after 10 minutes (again , no standby light or nothing , it went directly to off like if no power was getting to it).

so i finally called panasonic and asked for instructions ( i wanted to send it to the heartland service center , which from what i've read here , is the best one there is), but sadly as i live in Mexico , the panny rep told me i had to send it to a service center here in Mexico.

so i did, fast forward 2 weeks to today , i got my pj back. they didnt know whats wrong with it , they suggested changing the "mother board" which they said would run me almost $400 bucks but still they had no guarantee that that would fix it, which to me is stupid , i can get a used pj for that much on ebay.

right now im debating whether to try (again ) and get panasonic to redirect me to a service center in the states (i live near the border so shipping there shouldnt be an issue and i also have a PO on the US side of the border where i receive all my online purchases , so shipping back shouldnt be an issue for panasonic either.) or order some spare parts myself and hopefully be lucky.

from what i've read im leaning towards a faulty power supply. maybe even the ballast module but not sure what that even does.

my issue sounds a lot like the on/off problem i've seen here regarding this projectors but im afraid of buying some spare parts only to find out im totally off in thinking its the PS.

hard to believe that a PJ with only 2200 hours on it (on eco-mode) died and is beyond salvaging

After reading this thread from a few years ago from several people that had a problem very similar to mine.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=652343

i decided to try my luck, and ordered a new Power supply module, hope that fixes it.

wish me luck

ill PM as soon as i know the outcome , the PS will supposedly arrive this weekend , but i probably won't have time to put it in and see if it works until the next weekend.

ill keep ya'll posted

So ,

I got the Power supply module last weekend, installed it today (took me like 1 hour).

My projector has been working great so far (6 hours so far) and no shutdowns at all.

Ill keep you posted over the weekend to let you all know how its going.

but, so far so good

*fingers crossed*

3 days later and my PJ is still working great so it definitely was the Power supply module (P-module)