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5159 / KITON [TV]

The EURAS repair tip database for professional technicians and service engineers supplies the following faults for 5159 / KITON.

List of fault symptoms:
  • Frame cramped, foldover bright at centre and curving in from horizontal edges.
  • First anode supply low. (5159 tips)
  • Power supply transistor blows immediately at switch on.
  • No menu functions. (KITON - 5159 information)
  • No video. Stuck in AV. OSD OK.
  • Dead. after lightning strike.
  • Poor or no sync. If line locks, no frame sync. (5159 tip from KITON)
  • No green.
  • Horizontal lines on still picture.
  • CRT base, auto greyscale.
  • Excessive red.
  • Dead. Smoking.
  • Line pairing at top, linearity pulled out.
  • One channel missing, probably NICAM.
  • Bottom cramped (varying lower linearity).
  • No functions.
  • Relay trips.
  • Bright picture. Flyback lines. No vertical deflection (intermittently).
  • Erratic operation. Intermittently switches to standby. Corrupt OSD.
  • Mains FET fails again immediately.
  • Q801 defective. (5159 KITON repair tip)
  • Programs are LOCKED.
  • Display shows all channels locked.
  • HI one colour.
  • Top severely cramped (bottom reasonable).
  • Vertical jitter.
  • Nicam and signal conditioning chips.
  • Bright horizontal bar. (KITON - 5159 information)
  • Top stretched. Line pairing.
  • Picture comes in only after 20 mins after start-up and it's dim.
  • Flyback lines.
  • One colour missing, after CRT flashover.
  • IF jungle.
  • Apparent arcing noise from speaker.
  • Field middle cramped.
  • Excessive green. (5159 tip from KITON)
  • Blank screen. after a while.
  • Grainy picture.
  • Picture pumps when warm or when switch channels.
  • Vertical size varies. intermittently.
  • TV switches off after a short time. LED display is red or completely off.
  • Synchronisation problems in TXT.
  • Tuning locks then shutsdown.
  • Middle field cramped.
  • Goes back to standby, after approx 5 secs, LED turns green and goes out slowly.
  • No video, OSD OK, stuck in AV mode.
  • Reduced vertical size at bottom.
  • Slow tripping with HT.
  • Dead.
  • PSU error.
  • No picture. after warm-up.
  • Black lines on frame with noisy frame drive.
  • No TXT.
  • Tripping.
  • Stuck in standby, comes out, but immediately goes back to standby. LED flashes and sound may motorboat.
  • Pumping noises from the loudspeaker at switch on from standby.
  • Transformer TR801 and fuse F801 fail repeatedly.
  • One colour missing or excessive.
  • Customer has forgotten the PIN code and install menu is locked.
  • No vertical deflection.
  • Microcontroller.
  • Mains input fuse blows (OF1).
  • Excessive blue.
  • Stuck in standby. Standby LED lit .
  • One colour missing.
  • Enter service mode.
  • Vertical line. on upper half screen.
  • No RC. Volume turned off. (KITON - 5159 information)
  • One OSD colour missing. After CRT flash over.
  • Noisy picture. Low gain.
  • BUZ in PSU fails immediately after start-up. (service info for KITON -5159)
  • PSU pulsates and makes noises in standby.
  • Chopper FET Q801 blown.
  • Reduced vertical size. Poor linearity. on upper half screen.
  • No picture (intermittently).
  • Stuck in standby.
  • Not coming out of AV. Software switches, but line to IC401 stays high.
  • Low pulsing power.
  • Shows time-out clock and will not stop search tuning.
  • Varying heights.
  • No picture or very dark.
  • Bright coloured raster, one colour.
  • Protection mode activated.
  • Picture shifted upwards, no change in linearity.
  • Intermittent or no colour.
  • Standby warm.
  • Lines in picture. in the centre.
  • Vertical collapse. at bottom. (5159 KITON repair tip)
  • Transistor Q801 is S/C. IC801 defective.
  • Display show locked. When unlocking, lock can change, when addressing. Not toggling.
  • PSU pulsates.
  • Reduced vertical size at top.
  • Low level mono sound, NICAM OK. (5159 tip from KITON)
  • Only 1" field scan in centre of screen.
  • Doubled image and picture oscillates. Vertical and horizontal lines in picture.
  • Vertical size varies.
  • Picture shifted vertically. at top.
  • Vertical fault. on upper half screen.
  • Partial field collapse.
  • Vertical collapse.
  • No audio (intermittently).
  • Black screen.
  • No colour.
  • Low output, HT 83V.
  • Low or varying brightness.
  • No red.
  • PSU transistor fails after start-up.
  • Goes to standby when VOL +/- is selected. Otherwise OK.
  • No picture, only OSD (green). Audio OK.
  • Low general saturation level - CRT base.
  • No tuning.
  • No RC functions.
  • Does not store channels or analog levels. Will store on Channel 1, but all data is also on other channels. No TXT or NICAM.
  • Foldover at top/bottom cramped.
  • Power supply.
  • No audio. No picture. Standby LED lit .
  • No luminance. intermittently.
  • No blue.
  • PSU fails.
  • Slow tripping without HT,
  • Low brightness. (5159 KITON repair tip)
  • Vertical line visible in left third of screen especially with dark pictures.
  • Display locked.
  • Power supply tripping, no raster maybe motorboating in speaker.
  • Searches for channels continuously.
  • Defective BUZ77B.
  • Low gain noisy picture, AGC preset works, but not setting properly.
  • Fuse F801 in PSU blown.
  • Vertical foldover at top.
  • Goes to standby after a short period. Removing NICAM PCB stops effect, but no TXT.
  • No audio. Pulsing in speaker.
  • Intermittent standby.
  • Horizontal line. at top.
  • Too much of one colour, drive control makes CRT saturate in that colour.
  • Tilted interferences. Lines in picture via tuner and AV, depending on brightness.
  • No picture.
  • Poor power supply. Appliance remains in standby. (5159 KITON repair tip)
  • Stuck in standby. LED blinks . (5159 tips)
  • Video, audio I.F.
  • TXT.
  • No line drive.
  • Distorted audio. (5159 KITON repair tip)
  • Snow in picture.
  • NICAM/ZWEITON.
  • Blank screen. intermittently.
  • No E/W correction.
  • No picture. No OSD. (5159 tip from KITON)
  • Field shifts up.
  • Takes time for picture to come on.
  • Reduced horizontal size. at top. (KITON - 5159 information)
  • Audio stages.
  • Trips.

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