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C2089H / GEC [TV]

The EURAS repair tip database for professional technicians and service engineers supplies the following faults for C2089H / GEC.

List of fault symptoms:
  • Intermittent field jitter, or tiny height variations. (C2089H GEC repair tip)
  • Top of picture folded over. (service info for GEC -C2089H)
  • Intermittently sound crackles.
  • Poor synchronisation and no tuning lock.
  • Left hand side of screen has flyback lines.
  • Loss of picture after 10 mins.
  • Sound, brightness, colour and contrast controls not functioning. Excessive sound.
  • Blank raster and no channel change.
  • Stuck on stand-by.
  • Set trips after approx. ten seconds.
  • No cold start.
  • No picture. Audio OK.
  • No sound or picture, channel identification lit.
  • No vision.
  • Appliance works at switch on for ten seconds to ten minutes, then the seven segment display goes out, the picture and sound disappear and the three LED's on the front light up.
  • Intermittent picture increases in size with varying brightness then goes by itself into standby.
  • Set comes on in video mode int. No channel select.
  • Strange picture with no colour. The verticals are bent and smeared.
  • Height reduces on warm up.
  • Appliance continues to operate in standby. (C2089H tips)
  • No functions.
  • Faded picture and flyback lines.
  • Picture comes on orange on one side of the screen, then the whole of the screen. The orange goes and you just make out picture in the background, then lines come on the picture.
  • Small picture in stand-by. (C2089H tips)
  • Incorrect display and functions.
  • Field size varies or field collapse.
  • Continues to run when standby is selected. (GEC - C2089H information)
  • Set comes on in video mode intermittent no channel select.
  • Does not switch to standby.
  • Intermittent loss of station. Picture returns if channel button pushed.
  • Small picture on stand-by.
  • Dead. "1" in display.
  • Trips intermittently.
  • Search tuning does not lock and sound is muted.
  • No functions on front controls.
  • Poor sync; no tuning lock. (C2089H tips)
  • Line jitter. (C2089H tips)
  • Video crushing.
  • Intermittently dead.
  • No picture. Raster with vertical black lines over whole screen
  • Intermittent loss of station. If you push channel button picture comes back.
  • Excessively bright with flyback lines.
  • Left hand side of raster bright.
  • No raster.
  • When switching to standby appliance remains on.
  • Picture made up of small squares.
  • Frame foldover and rolling. May start with excessive height.
  • Line output transistor S/C after 1 mins to 2 days.
  • Field jitter intermittently.
  • Blank raster.
  • Picture composed of large white dots.
  • Barely visible raster with no signal content.
  • The picture looks as though it is made up of tiny black or white squares depending on picture content, with no shade difference between black and white. (C2089H GEC repair tip)
  • Picture over bright on the left hand side, getting darker towards the right hand side of screen. (C2089H tips)
  • Intermittent picture increases in size with the brightness varying then turning itself into standby.
  • Receiver still operates when put into standby mode.
  • Bright picture with flyback lines for first 20 mins.
  • Trips into standby. (C2089H GEC repair tip)
  • Blank picture. No channel change.
  • No picture, sound OK.
  • Poor synchronisation, no tuning lock.
  • Very weak field sync with severe line pulling at the top of picture, also effecting audio level.
  • Remote control affects VT7 and other makes of video.
  • Field synchronisation is weak and top of picture has line pulling.
  • Insufficient line and field synchronization.
  • No results and a check on the 111V line showed that it was at 20V via the start up diode D908.
  • Red raster and white horizontal lines on TXT.
  • No channel change, blank raster.
  • Top frame cramp or gross non linearity in the middle of part of the raster.
  • Remote control handset will not stay in its compartment drawer (ejects).
  • Lack of brightness. (C2089H GEC repair tip)
  • Bright picture with flyback lines.
  • Vertical collapse (intermittently). (C2089H tips)
  • Weak contrast, no colour. Sound OK; controls have no effect.
  • Bright high-contrast picture and loud sound, with the brightness, volume, contrast and colour controls inoperative. (C2089H tip from GEC)
  • Intermittent standby.
  • Screech from power supply, set works but has line pairing
  • Dead. Standby light is on.
  • Blank white raster with flyback lines.
  • Weak picture with flyback lines.
  • Picture goes dark.
  • No picture just vertical lines.
  • Low contrast, brightness and colour. Controls have no effect.
  • No picture. No audio. via AV.
  • Set continuies to operate in the standby mode.
  • Intermittently picture bounces.
  • Picture pulling on dark scenes with a light background like sky.
  • Frame foldover excessive height.
  • Appliance looks dead but channel LED lit.
  • Set comes on in video mode. Intermittently selects off-air and tunes slowly, but no stations selected.
  • Raster blanked out. No drive to rgb driver transistors from IC501.
  • Incorrect display and functions.
  • Inadequate field sync and line pulling.
  • Bright on left hand side of screen.
  • Screen is blank on left hand side, teletext is ok.
  • No TXT.
  • No audio. No picture.
  • No picture. Channel indicator number '1' is lit.
  • No picture.
  • Frame roll.
  • Stuck in standby.
  • Excessive brightness occurred very intermittently.
  • No raster, sound ok.
  • Dead. Stuck in standby.
  • In trip.
  • Field bounce. Intermittently top inch of picture disappears.
  • Text drop out.
  • Dull raster.
  • No picture. in the centre.
  • Set dead. HT voltage higher than the correct 112V.
  • Teletext lines covering the top one third of screen.
  • No switching to standby.
  • Rippling picture and audio buzz. (C2089H tips)
  • Intermittent field jitter and small variation in height. (GEC - C2089H information)
  • Line output transistor goes S/C (every 2 days after 10 mins).
  • Intermittently going to standby.
  • Set dead with the standby indicator on and the main board fuse blackened.
  • Set in permanent standby.
  • Tripping at switch on.
  • Frame rolling.

With help of this list a solution is found often when GEC C2089H fails.


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