Electronics........Bah!!!!!

[RichardK]

Not a good day today, picked up a new LCD TV we had on layby together with a set top box, big mouth me says oh yes I'll install that...........

Well, after clearing out all the old gear, knocking out some inbuilt brick shelves put in by the original owner, assembling about 5 km of connecting cords, all according to the mudmap given to me by the Retravision Dealer I turned it all on and lo and behold ............................more snow than on Mt Bulla at present, the DVD wont fire up at all, the new set top box although on doesn't seem to be doing anything and to top it off the antennae is not giving signal to both outlets in the house.

I've replaced the masthead amplifier, splitter box and balun connection but no difference.

To say i'm P***ed off is an understatement

Guess I'll just have to pay someone who knows about these things.https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/05/121.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/05/121.jpg

[DeeJay]

I gotta say the best $150.00 I ever spent was with Jim's Antenna's. I could'nt even tell what colour shirts the people were wearing on Ch31.
It turned out the signal was twice as strong as the aerial could cope with.
After all the new TV was $1500, so it was only another 10%.
It really is a black art:eek:

David

[Bradtot]

Errr Richard This is what I do for a living .....and guess what I am coming to rockingham some time next week
Interested?
Brad:eek: :burnrubber:

[RichardK]

Errr Richard This is what I do for a living .....and guess what I am coming to rockingham some time next week
Interested?
Brad:eek: :burnrubber:

Yes I am Brad please contact me I willPM my landline

[p38arover]

I'm annoyed 'cos the bedroom TV we bought just over a year ago has died and it's out of warranty - I suspect it's lost voltage to one or more of the tube grids - retrace lines are very visible and the screen is washed out. The trouble is that I'm not a TV tech and without a circuit diagram I'm lost in them.

It isn't worth repairing and I hate throwing stuff that should be repairable, out.

So we brought out the old Teac 34 cm TV to replace it. Hmm, can't find the remote. No worries, we'll do it by pressing the button on the front.

Nope, whilst we can switch it into standby mode with the front panel switch, it won't switch on without the remote. OK. We'll buy a multipurpose remote. Nope. Of the ones we tried, about the only TVs they won't work with are Teac. :mad:

Ron

[Bradtot]

Ron
what model exact is Teac I may have original remote
And if I do I will send you for free.
Retrace lines could be faulty tube on your other one. Was not very common in old days but just last week I had 2 rowa with faulty tubes under warranty...not good.
How far out of warranty is it.
Most manufact will give you some grace a long as its not too far out of date...or they will supply parts free but u pay lab.
What Brand is the other one and model as well please
Brad::D

[p38arover]

Hi Brad,

I'll PM the models tomorrow. Thanks very much for the offer, greatly appreciated.

Ron

[George130]

$150 for the arial???? Wish thats what it cost me for my useless thing. When we moved in 3 years ago instead of doing it myself I decided that it can't be that expensive so got the local people in to sort out the arial. $455 later I had a new arial, new boster and still crap reception. Arial is now lying in the yard after I took it down for the renovations and I can't see any incentive to bother if it won't work.
I did learn to ask for a quote before letting people start any work. Cos I will not pay that kind of money again for TV without a guarantee that it will be perfect or my money back.

Hope you get yours sorted quick and easily

[rangieman]

only last week our dvd packed it in i get the receipt out and bugger me we bought it on the 20th june 2005 it died on the 28/6/06

just over 12 months old and the warranty was a 12 month job

so on the phone talk to hardly norman who say they will ring phillips

20 minutes latter the man from hardly norman calls back phillips will swap it over no probs

oh and the new one has a 3 year warranty

[Michael2]

They have a self destruct program built into the timer. To avoid this, you must never set the time and date, then it won't know when to self destruct, or set the year as 2099.

Sony were the first to come out with this built in redundency, but now everyone does it.


I'm not paranoid, just dissillusioned.
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[waynep]

Getting back to the original post ...

If you want to do some checking before the help arrives ...

You do not need to upgrade your antenna for digital. In fact, digital will pull in a picture on a weaker signal than analogue.

You can check the antenna system by plugging your old TV back in. If you get a good picture then the antenna system should be OK. If not, you've wired something up wrong with your new splitter etc.

If you are getting a picture with your old TV plugged in, then there is something wrong with cabling up from the STB to the TV. If you push the 'menu' button on the STB remote and can see the menu on your TV screen then you should be cabled up OK.

You're just seeing noise on your new TV which indicates it is set to the internal analogue tuner with no antenna connected. You could try connecting the antenna directly to the new TV to verify that.

This may help or it might not :D

[disconut]

They have a self destruct program built into the timer. To avoid this, you must never set the time and date, then it won't know when to self destruct, or set the year as 2099.

Sony were the first to come out with this built in redundency, but now everyone does it.


Are you for real? Will my new Plasma TV live or die if I set the date? :(

Trev

[langy]

For Mr Rangieman (Et al) - it appears Phillips, to boost their image, applied a 3 year warranty to their home electronic products last year (?) and made it retrospective. My DVD recorder had a hiccup, and when I asked Phillips for some updated firmware, they directed me straight to a warranty repair. So if your other Phillips equipment dies, produce proof of purchase ( Bank records will suffice ) and it's all good.

Langy

[RichardK]

Well, alls well that ends well............................after being totally frustrated, and that's easy for me when I joust with electronics, I gave up, got on the computer, poured out my frustration, had a couple of reds and went to bed......................however................ all was not far from my mind............
after thinking about it before sleep I decided to get a few metres of coax from Bunnings, make a new lead from the balun to the amplifier as a last resort and to take out the coax wall plug which I installed while wiring it all up.

This morning I removed said wall plug before the trip to Bunnings and Bingo!!!.................everything worked perfectly.

[Maggot4x4]

I'm annoyed 'cos the bedroom TV we bought just over a year ago has died and it's out of warranty - I suspect it's lost voltage to one or more of the tube grids - retrace lines are very visible and the screen is washed out. The trouble is that I'm not a TV tech and without a circuit diagram I'm lost in them.

It isn't worth repairing and I hate throwing stuff that should be repairable, out.

So we brought out the old Teac 34 cm TV to replace it. Hmm, can't find the remote. No worries, we'll do it by pressing the button on the front.

Nope, whilst we can switch it into standby mode with the front panel switch, it won't switch on without the remote. OK. We'll buy a multipurpose remote. Nope. Of the ones we tried, about the only TVs they won't work with are Teac. :mad:

Ron
I have a similar problem, we have an LG 60 inch HI Def LCD Rearpro, and we have a blue cast in the top left and bottom right. There are no speakers or anything else within a metre of the TV and it appears to be getting worse.

Any ideas would be great.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

"I did learn to ask for a quote before letting people start any work."


if nothing else George,, we are ALL better off after that,,,;):D

[DEFENDERZOOK]

So we brought out the old Teac 34 cm TV to replace it. Hmm, can't find the remote. No worries, we'll do it by pressing the button on the front.

Nope, whilst we can switch it into standby mode with the front panel switch, it won't switch on without the remote. OK. We'll buy a multipurpose remote. Nope. Of the ones we tried, about the only TVs they won't work with are Teac. :mad:

Ron



with this one....have you tried pressing the chanel button....?
if its on standby....the chanel button should switch it on.....

[p38arover]

with this one....have you tried pressing the chanel button....?
if its on standby....the chanel button should switch it on.....

Yep, tried that.

Ron

[DEFENDERZOOK]

and every other button on the thing.....?

[Bradtot]

I have a similar problem, we have an LG 60 inch HI Def LCD Rearpro, and we have a blue cast in the top left and bottom right. There are no speakers or anything else within a metre of the TV and it appears to be getting worse.

Any ideas would be great.
Maggot what exact model please and is it a rear pro or is it a dlp...ie does it have a lamp?
if it does then contact lg as there have been problems with the dlp light engine in the dlp.
I have repaired 2 of these so far but I now know that lg will replace the part or the set but you must contact them
Brad

[Maggot4x4]

Maggot what exact model please and is it a rear pro or is it a dlp...ie does it have a lamp?
if it does then contact lg as there have been problems with the dlp light engine in the dlp.
I have repaired 2 of these so far but I now know that lg will replace the part or the set but you must contact them
Brad
Hi Brad, it's a MW-60SZ12. Does that make sense?

[Maggot4x4]

OK, I called LG, they have offered me a full replacement no questions asked. The offered a 62sx4r or a 50px5d. I think I might push them for a 71sa1d

[p38arover]

Ron
what model exact is Teac I may have original remote
And if I do I will send you for free.
Retrace lines could be faulty tube on your other one. Was not very common in old days but just last week I had 2 rowa with faulty tubes under warranty...not good.
How far out of warranty is it.
Most manufact will give you some grace a long as its not too far out of date...or they will supply parts free but u pay lab.
What Brand is the other one and model as well please
Brad::D

Brad, Sorry about long time replying.

The Teac TV is an EU-34TE

the other TV with retrace is a Tevion T2192 (Aldi)

Ron

[Ace]

I am not trained in all this tv business but consider myself pretty competent with it all given i was dragged out of class on a regular basis when at school to fix tellies etc and i get regular calls from grandma and grandad to come over and clean up their wiring whenever they buy a new dvd player (and this is more often than humanly required). So i had a brain wave when at uni and decided that moving the tv aerial on the carport roof to the mount on the very top of the house roof which held a redundant pay tv old dish, in doing this i decided this would be a good time to chuck a splitter in and run a cable to the bedroom. I went out bought the coax and bits and pieces and set to it. I got up on the roof, cut the old dish off and fitted the new aerial then fitted the splitter and ran a new line to the bed room. I then had to go to the local tv place and get an adaptor to screw into the old pay tv outlet in the bedroom so i could plug a normal coax plug into it. I then rigged everything up and got nothing. I buggered around for ages and nothing. I decided to go and buy some more coax and refit the cabling. Low and behold and instant crystal clear picture. Turns out the cable had been kinked at the store and had damaged the inner core or something. Matt