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3743 / NIKKAI [TV]

The EURAS repair tip database for professional technicians and service engineers supplies the following faults for 3743 / NIKKAI.

List of fault symptoms:
  • Resistor R801 blows at switch on.
  • Obvious arcing noise from speaker.
  • Vertical foldover at top. Vertical collapse. at bottom. (3743 tip from NIKKAI)
  • Stuck in standby.
  • CRT base, auto greyscale.
  • Dead. in shutdown
  • Dead. F802 blown
  • Reduced vertical size. (service info for NIKKAI -3743)
  • Black lines in picture.
  • HT high.
  • R809 (0.47R) blown.
  • One colour is excessive.
  • Display locked.
  • Video, audio I.F.
  • Line pairing at top. Linearity stretched. (3743 tips)
  • Excessive brightness.
  • Enter service mode.
  • Shows time-out clock. Doesn't stop search tuning.
  • Tripping.
  • HT incorrect. (3743 NIKKAI repair tip)
  • Goes back to standby, after approx 5 secs, LED turns green and goes out slowly.
  • Low colour saturation level.
  • Display shows all channels locked.
  • First anode supply low.
  • No video. Stuck in AV mode. OSD OK.
  • Vertical foldover on bottom.
  • No or poor synchronisation.
  • Flyback lines. (service info for NIKKAI -3743)
  • Erratic operation. Intermittently switches to standby. Corrupt OSD.
  • Switches to standby. at start-up. Motorboating noise from speakers. intermittently. LED blinks .
  • Reduced vertical size at top.
  • Low pulsing power.
  • No picture (after warm-up).
  • Vertical foldover at top.
  • Does not come out of AV.
  • Severe line tearing. Ragged verticals.
  • No menu functions.
  • PSU pulsates.
  • Disable electronic combination lock.
  • Grainy picture.
  • Picture shift upward. Linearity no change.
  • Switching transistor (BUZ77B), R809 and TDA4605 become defective immediately after switch on.
  • No picture. after a few hours.
  • Blank screen (intermittently).
  • Customer has forgotten PIN code and Install menu is locked.
  • No RC functions. Muted audio.
  • No menu functions.
  • Snow in picture.
  • Timeout clock search stops.
  • Reduced horizontal size. at top.
  • PSU MOSFET blown.
  • Low level mono sound. Nicam OK.
  • Bright coloured raster, one colour.
  • Reduced vertical size at bottom. (3743 tip from NIKKAI)
  • One colour missing.
  • Reduced horizontal size. at bottom.
  • HT value.
  • Audio stages.
  • Excessive red.
  • Distorted audio.
  • Excessive green. (3743 NIKKAI repair tip)
  • Reduced vertical deflection. at bottom.
  • Switches on for a short time, then switches to standby. LED lights red. After restart, LED goes out completely. (NIKKAI - 3743 information)
  • Dead or intermittently dead. (NIKKAI - 3743 information)
  • Slow tripping without HT, (3743 tip from NIKKAI)
  • Picture shifted vertically. at top.
  • Failure of FET, TDA4605.
  • Intermittent audio.
  • No functions. No LED lit. (picture attached)
  • Video & audio inop.
  • Bright screen w/retrace lines
  • PSU doesn't function.
  • Lines in picture.
  • Vertical compression in upper 1/2 of pix
  • No blue.
  • Low output.
  • Vertical short at top & retrace lines
  • One colour missing, after CRT flashover.
  • Field collapse. 1" of severely distorted field scan when setting of first anode control is increased.
  • No channel storing.
  • Mains transformer makes noises.
  • Enable child lock.
  • EHT flashovers at output transformer.
  • Width narrow. pulled in on sides (3743 tips)
  • Goes to standby after a short period.
  • No audio. Pulsing in speaker.
  • Nicam and signal conditioning chips. (NIKKAI - 3743 information)
  • Vertical collapse.
  • Field collapse. 1" of scan shifted upwards.
  • No vertical deflection.
  • Disable child lock.
  • Reduced vertical and horizontal size.
  • Video blanks out. Audio OK.
  • Vertical jitter.
  • Intermittent or no colour.
  • Slow tripping with HT.
  • Transistor Q801 is S/C. IC801 fails.
  • No line drive.
  • No NICAM channel.
  • Tuning locks then shutsdown.
  • Not storing channels or analog levels, does store on channel 1 but all data is in other locations also. No TXT or NICAM.
  • No tuning. (3743 tips)
  • One OSD colour missing, after CRT flash over.
  • No green.
  • No picture. Audio and OSD OK .
  • No picture. No OSD.
  • Volume always on full.
  • Vertical collapse. at top.
  • Goes to standby when tuning.
  • No raster, power supply tripping maybe motorboating in speaker.
  • No HV.
  • No RC functions. Goes to standby when volume up or down used.
  • No colour.
  • No start-up.
  • Too much of one colour.
  • Excessive blue.
  • Dead. Standby LED lit .
  • No TXT. (3743 tips)
  • Trips (after a while).
  • Display show locked. When unlocking, lock can change, when addressing. Not toggling. (3743 NIKKAI repair tip)
  • Vertical size varies.
  • Reduced vertical deflection.
  • Smeary or even completely blacked out picture occasionally.
  • Apparent barking noise from speaker.
  • Visible horizontal lines on still picture. (3743 NIKKAI repair tip)
  • Vertical fault. on upper half screen.
  • No audio.
  • Does not stop search tuning. Shows time-out clock.
  • Switches to standby.
  • No red.
  • Low or varying brightness.
  • Switches to standby (intermittently).
  • Dead.
  • Streaky picture, dark on left and bright on right.
  • Does not stop on sweep tune.
  • No picture.
  • Microcontroller.
  • Frame severely cramped. Bright foldover in centre with edges curved from horizontal.
  • Intermittently dead.
  • Black lines on picture. Extremely noisy field drive.

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Last updated: 08. Jan 2009 01:06:45 MET, doccode ISO9002AS168EKA200805C EURASMOP

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