On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:46:01 -0600, The_Fatman wrote:

The unit this replaced ran for at least 15 years (Panasonic also, but a
'Genius'...perhaps 'Ingenius' would have been a better name, since it ran
for 5 times as long at half the price, w/o so much as a burnt out bulb
even and withstood being dropped, twice.)

Not relevant to your actual problem, but we had a Panasonic Genius II
from 1977-ish until 2007 when it died (prior to that a turntable belt
had been replaced). Also replaced with a Panasonic inverter unit.
Watching responses with interest.