Mitsubishi 276P595010 DLP Chip, Model: 276P595010

The product itself is good, but beware the vendor who sells it. I left my original comments below as I realized I did not comment on the vendor but the product. However, those buying this need to beware how this product should arrive.The product arrived from a second vendor (ShopJimmy) and second order in appropriate packaging to protect the chip from static and accidental shipping damage. Thumbs up ShopJimmy!Easy install into the TV and I tried to power on before putting everything back together to test it out first. I am an IT manager during the day and I have learned to test before sealing everything back up; this is because sometimes you have another issue or you it is not working as you though and it saves work, but in this case it did not. The lamp light blinked yellow. This is due to the lamp door not tripping the switch. Sealed everything back up. (Left a couple screws off) and it tested fine. Finished screwing in back and tested TV. No dots and worked like new!First Vendor reviewed (buyNESP) who shipped the first order. I kept the comment intact.It is rare I sit down and type a review, but in this case it is warranted.When the chip arrived it came in a envelop with bubble wrap inside. The bag was not an anti-static bag and the plastic had indentations from something else that had been in it. The impressions did not match with the current chip. There was a white paper Avery label on it that anyone could have printed out. All these items together seemed very strange and the conditional is not normal packaging for a new chip of any type that I have ever purchased in the past. On closer inspection, and thankfully before I took the TV apart as mine is not bad yet, I noticed the pins were bent in different areas. This could be fixed with a needle nose pillars, time (a couple hours) and some good reading glasses, but Bending the pins back could result in the metal fatiguing and the pins breaking. All these things together stated there might be other issues with this chip. and I should not have to do this because I paid for a new chip. Lack of an anti-static bag could result in a chip that is flaky, which might not show immediately.As such, I call Amazon to return this chip because it was defective and this was due to bad packaging. I did not feel I had to inquire additional expense shipping it back. Though the whole thing makes me want to charge my hourly fee because this is insulting to the consumer how this came. A box or wrapping the chip in multiple layers of bubble wrap would have been better, instead of one were a pressure point could bend pins.

So a friend of mine had a Mitsubishi WD-60735 and it got to the point of having about 100 white dots on the screen so they went out and bought a brand new 60" as they didn't want to deal with trying to fix it, so they gave it to me for free! I did the research and bought the chip replacement on friday and it was here on monday. There are a couple of really good how to youtube videos on doing the swap that I watched before going to work. I took my time and cleaned all the dust out as I went and was finished in under an hour. The process was very easy and straight forward. Once it was all back together I crossed my fingers and turned the TV on and all of the dots were gone!! The picture is like brand new!! So with only a $180 investment I've now got a perfect, good-as-new, 60" TV!! I have had this same TV in the past and had to sell it when I moved out of state so I am very happy to have the same one again.I have to say I love the DLP technology and it is very underrated as far as TV's go. The fact that you can keep the TV forever and replace anything that goes wrong on your own without hiring a technician is priceless to me. The lamp and the chip are the two main things to go wrong and that's only about every 3 years and they are both very easy to replace. I will gladly invest a couple hundred bucks every few years over paying for a new TV! I highly recommend this product and don't be afraid to do the work yourself as it is not a big deal!!

I was installing this DLP Chip in my Mitsubishi WD-73837 DLP. I had about (6) of those white dots on my screen that had been showing up at a rate of about (1) every week to two weeks. I watched the ShopJimmy YouTube video. Everything went as instructed until I got to the installation of the DLP Chip itself. There is a slotted head/screw that you turn 90 degrees to release the OLD DLP Chip. That went fine. When installing the NEW DLP Chip, I could only get the slotted head/screw to turn about 90 percent of the way. The NEW DLP Chip would drop into the slots rather easily but when it came to securing the NEW DLP Chip in place, that slotted head/screw would only turn about 90 percent of the way and then stop. This was attempted repeatedly and I even reinstalled the OLD DLP Chip several times and the slotted screw always seemed to turn fully on the OLD DLP Chip. The NEW DLP Chip - just not quite as complete. In the end, I tightened the slotted head as much as possible, the NEW DLP Chip "seemed" secure so I reassembled the TV and yes, it worked, and the spots are gone and the video is great! It was just a little nerve-racking, at this point, since I didn't think the TV would work or the picture was going to be screwed up or misaligned somehow, as it was reassembled.Secondly, on the back of the Heat Sink, there is a strip of what I would think is some sort of heat transference material as it makes contact with the DLP Chip itself. When the Heat Sink was removed, as instructed, maybe 60 percent of this material remained attached to the OLD DLP Chip!! Futhermore, it would not come off of the OLD DLP Chip except in tiny flaking pieces. There was never any mention in any video of having to deal with these issues. My concern is that if the heat transference material is not fully in place that it may shorten the life of the NEW DLP Chip?? I have emailed Tech Support at ShopJimmy over this. I will see what they say. Obviously, I do not want to have to replace the NEW DLP Chip in 6 months, a year, etc. because the Heat Sink is not performing as required.Update 10.20.14: Prompt reply from ShopJimmy. Yes, ShopJimmy does not recommend running the TV without the necessary heat transference pad between the DLP Chip and the Heat Sink. Here is the Amazon link:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J9K4ZM6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1From ShopJimmy:"We actually sell the strips as part of the installation kit http://www.shopjimmy.com/samsung-mitsubishi-dlp-chip-installation-kit-for-4719-001997-276p595010-4719-001981.htm people have used the thermal compound, but i tend to go with the thermal pad. As it was what they used originally. If you go with the thermal compound im not sure if it will void the warranty on the chip as its not the suggested thermal transfer medium.Do not run it without anything though. Those chips get very hot very fast and it will dramatically shorten the life of the chip if you run it without anything between the heatsink and chip."