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CK5020 / PATHEMARCONI [TV]

The EURAS repair tip database for professional technicians and service engineers supplies the following faults for CK5020 / PATHEMARCONI.

List of fault symptoms:
  • Snowy screen, you must force to have AV but it does not retain it in memory. Impossible to adjust channels.
  • No RC. When changing channel with the TV button goes up to channel 2 where it is impossible to adjust the volume. Then all functions are blocked.
  • White line in the middle of screen. Narrow picture on the left and on the right.
  • Stops intermittently.
  • Insufficient width and raster collapse. The power supply drops.
  • Green picture.
  • No raster scanning. (service info for PATHEMARCONI -CK5020)
  • Black vertical bar.
  • Poor tint after a few seconds and erasing flyback is visible. (CK5020 PATHEMARCONI repair tip)
  • Brightness only appears after a few mins.
  • Streaking in picture when hot.
  • Removing the 819 lines.
  • Brightness is too harsh with flyback lines. (CK5020 PATHEMARCONI repair tip)
  • No start-up.
  • US voltage is at 53V. If you unplug the line BU the US voltage goes back to normal again. Line transformer has been changed. BU and CP55 have been changed.
  • No picture. LEDs on control unit don't light.
  • Too little width and height of raster. Variations in picture size. Changes of screen brightness level.
  • Original fault; power supply CP05 is defective. After BU326 blew. TV works 50% of the time then goes dead. 160V instead of 124V.
  • RL53 destroyed at start up.
  • Poor amplitude and the rasters reappear. PSU fails.
  • Power supply check.
  • Unstable picture when connected to a VCR. (CK5020 tip from PATHEMARCONI)
  • Unstable picture.
  • No colour.
  • Spare part info: value of RS10. (PATHEMARCONI - CK5020 information)
  • Running through in the L audio band.
  • No EHT or disappears when warm.
  • Nothing at output of tripler. No display, sound ok.
  • Green screen with flyback lines.
  • Insufficient picture width.
  • Line output transformer is defective.
  • Picture outline is green. The other colours are present.
  • Harsh brightness with flyback lines. (CK5020 tips)
  • No picture. Dark screen. EHT present.
  • After replacing tripler BG1897 642 000 picture is blurred, impossible to adjust and also smoke from RL54.
  • Picture runs through, impossible to stabilize.
  • No line scanning.
  • Intermittently when switching on via the mains switch, CTV remains in standby. Same with the RCU. You must operate the mains switch to switch on the CTV.
  • The appliance does not store the stations in memory.
  • Flashes at the light level which varies according to the most sensitive pictures on live transmissions which are very contrasted. At a low contrast level the problem disappears.
  • One colour missing. Green screen at switch on then picture becomes normal but one colour missing and visible flyback lines.
  • Black screen. No audio.
  • Black screen. If you touch the FBT, the picture appears.
  • Red screen with flyback lines.
  • High voltage is only present on the screen.
  • No picture, no sound. No EHT. LF ok.
  • Brightness signal appears progressively.
  • Insufficient line amplitude. (CK5020 PATHEMARCONI repair tip)
  • Reduced picture, white vertical line in centre.
  • No sound. Amplification is correct.
  • U8 voltage is too weak.
  • The light is faulty and the grey scale is incorrect.
  • Green bar in top part of screen.
  • Screen is hardly lit and has no picture content. Distorted sound.
  • No brightness.
  • After 15 mins. white horizontal line in middle of screen. When switched off and on again, picture ok for 10 mins then screen becomes black again.
  • Standby LED flickers.
  • The appliance does not start up at every attempt, especially when cold.
  • No stability, no signal.
  • Flyback interference lines and white screen.
  • No Y signal. (CK5020 PATHEMARCONI repair tip)
  • Green reaches saturation.
  • Brightness fault with incorrect grey scale.
  • No blue. Picture in B/W OK.
  • No brightness or 12V.
  • U8 voltage is too weak.
  • No start up (chassis with remote control).
  • Does not always start up, especially when cold.
  • The appliance drifts after a few minutes. (PATHEMARCONI - CK5020 information)
  • Negative picture .
  • One colour is stronger than the others.
  • No raster sync.
  • Foldover in top part of screen.
  • Poor shading after a few secs and flyback lines.
  • Passing into Band L for the sound. (CK5020 PATHEMARCONI repair tip)
  • Picture turns white with flyback lines.
  • Random RCU transmitter.
  • PSU releases after 15 mins then dead. Only thermal noise from the loudspeaker.
  • No light. The U2 is too high.
  • Blue screen with flyback lines.
  • No LF.
  • One colour missing. (PATHEMARCONI - CK5020 information)
  • No colour on one part of the screen.
  • Unstable picture. Defective horizontal and vertical deflection.
  • Insufficient vertical and horizontal amplitudes. 135V low and impossible to regulate.
  • No picture and LEDs on the control unit do not light up. (CK5020 tip from PATHEMARCONI)
  • AFC does not work.
  • At start up green screen then green picture outlines.
  • Dark screen.
  • Starts up after a random time. No power supply on FBT. Display and sound ok.
  • No picture. Picture appears when touching flyback transformer.
  • White line and no picture after warming up for several mins.
  • Picture runs through, remains unstable and foldover in middle of picture.
  • Flashing picture.
  • Brightness signal increases. (CK5020 tips)
  • Excessive amplitude with slight linearity fault. No line amplitude. RP09 is triggered.
  • Line fault.
  • Slight hum in the sound and no picture synchro. (service info for PATHEMARCONI -CK5020)
  • Does not go on (chassis with RC).
  • Top part of the picture rolls up.

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Last updated: 16. Oct 2008 05:49:47 MET, doccode ISO9002AS168EKA200805C EURASMOP

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