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1153 / MAXIM [TV 51 (47/48) cm picture]

The EURAS repair tip database for professional technicians and service engineers supplies the following faults for 1153 / MAXIM.

List of fault symptoms:
  • No OSD. No TXT. (1153 MAXIM repair tip)
  • Dead.
  • No audio. No sound option in main menu.
  • Vertical foldover. at top.
  • No channel store. Picture size varies.
  • Tripping.
  • No picture. Audio OK .
  • No TXT.
  • Reduced vertical and horizontal size.
  • No picture.
  • Shuts down. after a while. LED is red .
  • No power.
  • Thin horizontal black lines on upper half picture. Poor horizontal linearity.
  • No picture, audio OK, TXT OK, TXT mixed with picture OK.
  • Poor focus. Arcing across focus spark gap on CRT base PCB.
  • Unable to enter tuning mode.
  • Vertical jitter.
  • No picture. intermittently.
  • Horizontal collapse. E/W fault.
  • No line drive at start-up. Line drive starts after a while and picture appears with reduced vertical size.
  • Black bar. at top. (MAXIM - 1153 information)
  • Changes channels intermittently.
  • Picture vertically serrated.
  • Enter service mode.
  • Incorrect horizontal size.
  • No start-up. (1153 tip from MAXIM)
  • E/W changes by itself depending on picture content.
  • No start-up. Standby LED lit . (service info for MAXIM -1153)
  • Picture and sound drop out for a short time, then program display and stereo OSD appear. (MAXIM - 1153 information)
  • All stations are just a bit mistuned, sometimes no sound on some channels.
  • Coloured spots on the screen.
  • Disable child lock. (1153 MAXIM repair tip)
  • Chirps. (MAXIM - 1153 information)
  • Only a blinking vertical strip in the centre.
  • Pincushion distortion. E/W fault.
  • Pulse switching can be heard at switch on.
  • No vertical deflection on the upper half of screen. Bright line in the middle.
  • Concaved picture.
  • Horizontal output stage drive fails.
  • Picture jitters.
  • No functions.
  • E/W fault.
  • Picture is compressed and bright line in the middle of the picture.
  • Picture jitters vertically on the picture edges.
  • Ticks, standby display blinks.
  • Switches off occasionally or no switch-on. Remains in standby. (1153 MAXIM repair tip)
  • Distorted picture.
  • Blank raster.
  • Picture flicker for a few seconds when it comes up then appliance goes into standby.
  • No line drive. intermittently.
  • Blows TD02 (BUH515D) at start-up.
  • Purity spot in TXT after a while.

When MAXIM 1153 fails , these symptoms are known and EURAS knows the remedy/solution.

Tips are coming from EURAS customers, workshops and payed technicians from all over the world. MAXIM 1153 fails can be better solved.

If MAXIM 1153 fails, this information will help you. Here you can only see the symptom list, to access remedies, you must register.

With help of this list a solution is found often when MAXIM 1153 fails.


Additionally to repairtips or service information 1153 is linked to 50 components (IC's and/or transformers) in the Tectra database, through which you can identify electrical compatibilities (crossreferences) in appliances.


Chassis information is available (which chassis is built in into 1153 ).

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In the repair discussion pinboard for 1153 there are 49 replies to questions asked about 65 different repair problems.
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If you do not qualify as stated above and you have an appliance that needs technical service, we do recommend you to contact the manufacturer (for example through his website) or go to a professional TV/Video/household electronics repair shop close to you.

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Last updated: 11. Oct 2008 00:50:20 MET, doccode ISO9002AS168EKA200805C EURASMOP

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