FF422 / SABA [TV (Standard)]

• Distortion, white flags on the left side of the picture. Sometimes negative picture. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Excessive brightness. Flyback lines. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Channel memory loss approx every fortnight.
• White screen. Sparks between pins 6/7.
• No colour. (picture attached)
• Only a horizontal line at top of picture. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• White line, slightly tilted at the bottom of the screen.
• CTV remains in standby. HT at 127V, 15V at 9V, 28 at 20. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Part number info : RC
• At start up functions normally for 20 to 50 secs then goes into standby prematurely. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (service info for SABA -FF422)
• The channel nos run through, no sound or picture but it works in video.
• PSU does not always start up (start up difficulties). (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• No colour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Poor start up of PSU. Occasionally starts up but sometimes does not, especially when warming up. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Noise in audio. in standby.
• At switch on, standby light flashes once and cuts out.
• DL13 is S/C.
• CTV blown, if connector BF01 remains connected. Vertical scanning line is at bottom of screen. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Fuse FP2 (630mA) blows.
• White screen, no picture. Sound ok on all channels. Same via scart.
• Slight reduction of raster amplitude.
• Stops for 10 secs after 10 mins. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Loud noise, if switched to standby. (with circuit diagram extract)
• No function either from control panel nor RC. No OSD.
• Standby light on, no start up of power supply.
• Grey screen, no sound, no video in scart output. OSD ok.
• No HF transmission. Snowy screen.
• Power supply pumps every single second.
• Sound fizzles.
• Picture with black bands and sound whistling/tuner drift. (with circuit diagram extract)
• No start up of line transformer and LED pulsates slightly.
• CTV in standby one hour. After CTV does not start up from remote control or front panel. TV stops with the switch. Waits 30 mins. Starts to work again with switch. Functions ok with the remote control and front panel. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Spare part no. info: Power supply repair kit.
• RC part number.
• Hiss in audio. (with circuit diagram extract)
• PSU does not always start after switch on with the control panel or the RCU. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• TV switches off when changing channel and with great variations in the beam current.
• PSU does not start up correctly. Standby LED flickers
• No colour. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Random coloured flash.
• Part no info: PSU repair kit. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• After changing FBT which sparks, the very high tension is ok. No light on the screen even when forcing G2 44469905.
• Black, horizontal lines in picture. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Appliance goes by itself to minus volume. Then the RCU signals are blocked. (with circuit diagram extract) (FF422 tips)
• No vertical and horizontal amplitude. Picture shifted downwards. (picture attached)
• PSU function description.
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (picture attached)
• Dark picture. No audio. OSD OK .
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Picture has vertically shifted with approx. 2cm towards top after start-up. Picture ok after approx. 10 mins.
• Does not pick up in UHF or in VHF. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Slight raster distortion at top or bottom of screen, depending on defective diode.
• Sound fizzles.
• Spare part no. info: Power supply repair kit.
• The appliance goes to secondary safety mode. (with circuit diagram extract)
• The picture blows.
• No colour. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• At switch on, the appliance goes to stand by. After trying to start several times the TP19 and TP29 are damaged.
• Vertical rainbow zones over the picture right over the width of the screen. Intermittent fault. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Slow start-up.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• After being used for 2 to 3 weeks, the 1.6 fuse burns out when the appliance starts up.
• Vertical oscillator adjustment.
• No synchronisation. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Power supply pulsates intermittently when cold or warm.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• FBT is s/c twice a year. On collector TL19. 1200V instead of 1000V. CL21, CL22, CL24, CL23 replaced but fault persists. US adjusted to 143V. FBT 470034-81 CTV TA6326.
• No colour. via SCART.
• Intermittently blows chopper transistor.
• FS circuit check.
• The PSU runs continuously.
• No colour, only on French channel "La 3".
• Picture modulation in power function.
• White screen in scart and no sound. Picture ok via tuner. Displays programmes and sound level etc.
• Plastic effect. Does not decode Channel +.
• After switch on, PSU fails immediately. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• No colour. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Low hum from the speaker in standby. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Vertical picture position shifts intermittently upwards approx 2 cm after switch on. It is OK after approx 10 mins. (FF422 tips)
• No colour. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Contrast average value is too high. (picture attached)
• After a few minutes the screen goes black and motor boating occurs.
• When warm picture foldover towards the bottom and horizontal flyback lines. Noise from the line transformer. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Safety mode comes into play.
• Lines appear at top of screen or interference then goes into safety mode. At present it goes into safety mode each time after 2-3 secs. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• The lamp is weak.
• Spare part no. info: Power supply repair kit.
• No colour.
• The tinge varies.
• Appliance switches off and switches on again, changes channel and there are great variations in the beam current.
• Power supply starts up and switches to stand-by after a couple of seconds. (picture attached)
• Intermittent fault especially when cold. No vertical stability. No luminance for a few seconds then everything OK. (SABA - FF422 information)
• No horizontal deflection. Audio OK .
• Raster weakened after a few mins and is reduced to a horizontal lines then TV goes into standby.
• Switches off immediately if vertical plug is pulled out. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (FF422 tips)
• Adjusting the peak white: chassis.
• No functions. Standby LED lit . (service info for SABA -FF422)
• HT starts up for 2 secs then TV goes into standby.
• Line transformer blows a few secs later after appliance is started up, line transformer has been changed but fault persists. Output voltage 8.2V instead of 15V on the power supply secondary with the line transformer removed. (SABA - FF422 information)
• No start-up. LED is red .
• Part number info: power supply repair
• 4cm vertical scanning for a few secs. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• The grey scale is incorrect.
• Part no. info.: RC.
• Tripping. after a few hours. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Switches to protection mode. at start-up.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Snow in picture.
• Sound and picture cut out for a second then return to normal. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Channels run through and do not stop.
• BU transistor TP29 blows again.
• No OSD via RC or front controls. Screen is lit, snow present. No sound or picture. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Vertical scanning line is at bottom of screen and CTV blows.
• Dark screen, hum in sound. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Switches off when switching channels. Only switches on again after RC switches to standby. Occasionally functions OK all evening but sometimes switches off when channel is initially changed. (picture attached)
• Unstable frame linearity.
• Regulator fault. (picture attached)
• No tuning, maximum tuning voltage.
• Colour late to appear in TVs with PAL system. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• PSU fails immediately after start-up.
• Switches to protection mode. after start-up.
• Oblique lines towards the top of the screen and there may be a demagnetization fault and the demagnetization coil is ok. The PTC has already been changed.
• Vertical lines are distorted horizontally. E/W equalisation can not be adjusted correctly.
• At switch on starts up with severe noise in loudspeaker then stops and remains in standby.
• Starts up, works for 30 secs then goes into standby. Starts up again by itself after 2 mins. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• No colour.
• Too much EHT.
• Tripping (intermittently).
• Functions very well via the scart socket. No UHF VHF reception. Display on the screen is correct, white screen. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Power supply goes to standby and standby light is lit up.
• The screen insertions are unsynchronised, if no aerial signal is present.
• High voltage check.
• Functions for a few secs then goes into safety mode. Functions without the raster deflector.
• General information.
• At start up standby point lights up and hum. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• No red.
• No stations found in search. Seems to have poor power supply filtering.
• Switches to standby. after a few minutes. Switches on by itself. after a while. (extract of circuit diagram attached) (SABA - FF422 information)
• Snow on the screen.
• White line. in the centre.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• FP01 blows at switch on.
• Only a horizontal line in middle of picture. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Switches on. Red LED lights, but turns darker after start-up. No start-up via RC. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• TV stops and starts up again immediately. Standby light is on.
• U/Syst voltage is 106V. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Sound fizzles. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Picture is just at the top edge of the CRT if the vertical picture centering regulator is at the end position. The topmost lines are somewhat bent to the right.
• Coil LG08 (situated in the corner near the EHT) burns. (picture attached) (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• TV starts up for a few secs with a jerky noise then stops and continues like this.
• Passes all channels without stopping.
• Sound fizzles.
• Switches over by itself to "Secam L". (with circuit diagram extract)
• The picture is displaced towards the top of the screen (approx. 4cm to 10cm).
• Switches over by itself to "Secam L". (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• No raster signal on pin 31 of IV01.
• Starts up in standby. Standby display ok.
• No sound via scart or very weak sound. Scart solder joints have been redone as well as the scart module. Sound ok via aerial. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• AV switching threshold for camcorders.
• Sound fizzles.
• Mini raster scanning.
• Vertical foldover at top. Dark picture. (with circuit diagram extract) (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Picture is black/ white. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• S2055 AF in the line blows after operating for a few hours. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• HV starts up for 3-5 secs then shuts down. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Flag effect when playing back with a VPH6400 Thomson VCR. Ok via scart.
• Goes into safety mode for no apparent reason, after operating for 30 mins. Starts up again from the switch.
• Picture is narrower. When making adjustments, the picture is wavy at the sides.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Grey scale incorrect. Yellow-green picture. High voltage on the blue cathode (170V). Voltage on the red cathode, as well as on the green, is normal (135V). (SABA - FF422 information)
• Setting the main voltage (Usyst. 110V): Chassis. (picture attached)
• At switch on, the tube flashes on the loudspeaker and stops. Negative picture.
• Occasionally horizontal tearing and horizontal stripes. Same faults via aerial and in scart.
• Adjusting the audio trap: chassis.
• Low buzzing sound from speaker in standby.
• Incorrect oscillations on line BU (S2055).
• No light. Poor picture. Occasional horizontal tearing. If G2 is pushed in as far as it will go picture is better. Varies from 100 to 950V, 90 degree model, 114V on DP50. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Signals reduced to quarter of their size and are distorted on TL19 after 3 secs from start-up. TL19 burns if left under load. (picture attached)
• Fuse (1.6A) blows intermittently. (with circuit diagram extract) (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Power supply transistor TP20 blows and so does the mains fuse FP01 after operating for a few mins.
• After some time, picture cuts out then returns immediately, standby light weakens but stays on, then CTV has a frizzy picture.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Reduced vertical size. (picture attached)
• Chroma lacks green.
• No picture, light line under the picture tube. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (service info for SABA -FF422)
• No synchronisation. in TXT.
• No colour. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Pincushion distortion.
• TV does not start up or stops.
• Short line pulses on the line output collector and then dead. (picture attached)
• After changing FBT twice, light varies when you turn focus pot; FBT ok, after a few moments light decreases at switch on, light picture with G2 set to minimum then darkens.
• No colour. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Sound but no picture. White screen with flyback line.
• No HF reception. Snow on picture.
• Power supply BU blown at switch on. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Switching off fault of the spot.
• No start-up. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Blows on a white picture. Power supply as new.
• TP29 has a short circuit and FP01 blows after a short time.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Cuts out intermittently. Light becoming white before turning red. No start up with RC. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No contrast.
• RC part number.
• Goes into SAFETY mode and very slight hum in LF.
• Dark picture. Audio OK . (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Vertical lines run over the whole screen.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Goes to standby at switch-on. Trips slowly if programme button held on. (extract of circuit diagram attached) (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Siren noise in speaker.
• Blue flash in Secam.
• No colour. (picture attached)
• Memory loss with Canal Plus decoder.
• Loud noise when switched to standby. (extract of circuit diagram attached) (FF422 tips)
• TL19 (S2000AF) fails repeatedly.
• Distorted picture (line amplitude, linearity). (service info for SABA -FF422)
• No start-up from standby with RC. (extract of circuit diagram attached) (FF422 tip from SABA)
• At start up standby light comes on then goes off straight away. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• No colour. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• No colour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Switches on, HV appears, then switches to standby.
• Picture with flyback line on one colour.
• Tripping. Standby LED flashes .
• Repeated failure of BU508DF in power supply.
• Switches to standby.
• Stuck in standby. LED is red . (with circuit diagram extract)
• No scanning.
• To improve alignment.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Smearing in high channels.
• The power supply starts up jerkily but occasionally does not start up at all. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Vertical lines run over the top part of the screen.
• Picture is green, red and blue with flyback lines. (SABA - FF422 information)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• The light comes on. Power supply starts up for 1-4secs then cuts out.
• After switch on, vertical centering is shifted intermittently upwards approx. 2 cm; it goes to normal position after approx. 10 minutes. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Following a fault on the line there is no colour. Composite video is ok on 53 of IV01 but there is no RGB on 41, 42 and 43.
• Picture is black/white. (with circuit diagram extract)
• No start up of power supply. No standby light. No noise. (FF422 tips)
• Picture shifted vertically.
• Vertical lines shake. In top third of the screen picture tearing is greater.
• Sound goes to maximum.
• Distorted picture. Strong streaking.
• Starts up when in standby, sometimes when cold. Standby display normal.
• No reception. OK via SCART .
• Use of the lithium battery. (SABA - FF422 information)
• No start-up (when cold). (with circuit diagram extract)
• Picture with red as the predominant colour and flyback line apparent on the screen.
• Impossible to display the PAL SECAM standards. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Synchronisation during PB of the VCR.
• In breakdown mode with 2.2K, pin 20 and 32 have been removed, EHT but 300V pulsates instead of 600 or 700V. 100V at the start of video but everything collapses if you refit DL13. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• 10cm frizzy lines in top part of the picture. (picture attached)
• Memory loss or random deprogramming of uP.
• No function, standby point is not visible.
• Unstable vertical scanning with foldover in the picture. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Occasionally loss of station memory. When warm stations run through from 1 to 39 without loss of station memory.
• Goes to SAFETY mode and no scanning possible.
• No picture, no sound, standby display dot and horizontal bars over the screen light up in display. Can only be switched on with RC. (FF422 tips)
• E/W correction cannot be changed.
• Unstable picture.
• No brightness and incorrect OSD. OSD background is bright red. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Line output S2000 fails after a while.
• Picture is displaced slightly towards top of screen.
• Moire effect in the colour areas.
• Line BU blows at once. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Sometimes switches off by itself or does not switch on.
• Intermittently blue picture with traces of blue flyback lines.
• Poor E/W correction. Adjustment of the amplitude is ok. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Sound fizzles.
• Standby LED is still lit up. Horizontal white stripe. (picture attached)
• No functions. Standby LED is not visible.
• Only noise on screen, screen menu cannot be superimposed. Appliance does not react to the RCU or to control panel commands.
• Humming on sound and the screen is dark. The appliance goes to stand-by after 2-5 minutes.
• PSU does not always start after switch on via front control or RC.
• Picture jitters. in TXT. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Picture shrinks and a white band appears at bottom of screen after a short period of time.
• No audio. No picture. Squealing from PSU. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (FF422 tips)
• At switch on slight line crackling and no start up. Red LED ok. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Line output stage immediately defective after switch on. (picture attached)
• Faulty OSD.
• Green picture. No contrast. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Sound fizzles.
• Picture is dark, screen menu ok.
• Occasionally no scanning is possible.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Grey adjustment: picture tube board. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Picture and sound disappear after a few days or even after 5-6 hours operation. Standby stays on. Switching off and on help for a while.
• Switches to protection mode. (picture attached)
• Power supply pulsates after a frame fault.
• Line on the screen at the start. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Intermittent switches to standby during programme or scene change. (picture attached)
• Regular ondulations on the vertical lines of a test picture. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Fuse blows at switch on. (picture attached)
• Occasionally after switch on vertical centering is shifted up approx 2cm. Goes into normal position after approx 10 mins. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Picture is displaced towards bottom of screen (approx. 5cm to 15cm).
• Vertical line wavering at left hand side. (picture attached)
• Picture is somewhat noisy.
• Fails. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Switches to protection mode. after a few seconds.
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (picture attached)
• PSU does not strat.
• Switches to standby. in PB.
• White field with flyback lines.
• When warm picture and sound increase then switches into standby. (picture attached)
• Power supply S2000 blows approx every 10 hours.
• Picture rolls. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Adjusting the R-Y demodulator: chassis.
• Screen is dark. Slight noise from the line output transformer.
• When the focus pot is varied the brightness varies after a few minutes, the picture turns dark.
• No functions. IR01 does not accept reset.
• RC part number.
• No audio (via SCART).
• No or weak sound. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Picture only in top part of screen. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• At start up snowy screen with no reception. When pressing the programme keys the numbers run through continuously. No sound.
• Part no info: PSU repair kit.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Receives no HF signals. Band switch over is not possible.
• Trips. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Goes into black and white only on third channel. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Horizontal size varies. depending on picture content.
• Tripping. Power LED lit . (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Power supply pumps when cold, red light flashes.
• After operating for some time the channels begin to run through. Nothing occurs when the circuits are cooled down.
• No function, standby point is not visible.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Goes into standby after reducing the frame to a horizontal line after a few mins.
• Tripping. Red standby LED dimming on and off. (picture attached)
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• No colour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Sound lowers intermittently with crackling.
• Black and white picture. No RGB on 41, 42, 43 of IV01. 200V on DL11 is correct.
• Sound sizzles.
• White horizontal line at top of screen. Rest of screen is black.
• No start up. No display. No standby LED light. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• When the set was switched to standby a fairly loud plop came from the speaker. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Switches off when changing picture and channel and then starts again. (picture attached)
• OSD noisy. (FF422 tips)
• No videotext mode.
• No colour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Sound fizzles.
• RC part number.
• At switch on the light comes on. CTV starts up then cuts out,no light, crackling noise at the level of the power supply transformer. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Starts up but stops 2 secs later.
• Vertical lines are distorted horizontally. E/W equalizer can not be adjusted correctly.
• Appliance in burst mode. No standby light. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• After a short time the US voltage increases so that the TV cuts out.
• No raster deflection. No picture, only vague light in background. Looks like coloured spot at bottom of picture.
• Sound fizzles.
• When switched on, line transformer attempts to start up then goes to standby. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No 30V on pin 5 of tuner in PAL SECAM. (picture attached)
• No colour. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Fluctuations of the picture according to the video content.
• Sound fizzles.
• Sound fizzles.
• RC part number.
• Chopper goes short circuit; after replacement appliance functions correctly for approx 1 minute.
• Control board CDI 2000.
• Poor tuning.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Hiss in audio. (+ extract of circuit diagram) (SABA - FF422 information)
• No colour. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Functions for a few secs then goes into standby. Channel change does not occur. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No sound via aerial or scart. Picture ok. No LF signal on pin 15 on TDA200. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Low pitch, inaudible sound via scart. Value of SMD resistor pin 14 of IF module ? If 100Ohm applied there, sound ok but volume cannot be lowered. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Red picture. Flyback lines.
• IR01 loses memory without any apparent reason.
• No functions. after warm-up.
• EHT starts. Line pulse then Stop. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Vertical picture position shifts intermittently upwards approx 2 cm after switch on. It is OK after approx 10 mins.
• Dead. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Power supply fault. Remains in standby. (with circuit diagram extract)
• At switch on the vertical centering is off by 2cm at the top.
• Sound fizzles.
• Cuts out and then starts up from time to time after working for several hours.
• Switches to standby (after start-up). No RC functions. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Slight raster scanning in the middle of the screen.
• No picture. Loss of one or more colours.
• Occasionally fails for a short time (Occasionally does not function for days). (picture attached)
• Tripping. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Vertical deflection has collapsed to a bright line in the middle of the screen.
• Vertical amplitude is too low.
• Secondary protective circuit TV01 and TV02 disconnects intermittently.
• Switches off by itself. when changing channels. (picture attached)
• Snowy picture. No reception in channel search.
• Vertical lines. (picture attached)
• Blackish bar after whites.
• Intermittently sound crackles at the start. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Incorrect speed of power supply. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Ignition on the EHT (flame). (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Scanning at bottom of screen.
• Noise in the HP power supply. The appliance goes to stand-by and starts up again. Dark screen and after 3 minutes the appliance returns to stand-by.
• No colour. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (FF422 tips)
• Shuts down (intermittently).
• With high contrast PSU trips then starts again. Occurs randomly. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Trips erratically.
• No channel reception after changing tuner and IF.
• Diode goes green and then switches off. CTV does not start. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• RC part number.
• No frame sync in PB of recent rented cassettes.
• Picture at the bottom. No contrast.
• E/W correction IC (TDA4950) blown each time.
• EHT S20000AF blows every three days.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Starts up at switch on with the red light lit. Impossible to go into standby via the control panel or RC. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Intermittently black band in the middle of the screen then increases in size to fill the whole of the screen. (picture attached)
• OSD fades on all the colours.
• The display is incorrect.
• Amplitude varies with the voltages.
• TV01 blows after operating for 30 mins.
• Adjusting the PAL amplitude: chassis. (FF422 tips)
• Line power transistor S2055AF blows immediately after being replaced. (picture attached)
• No line output funtion. OK at switch on.
• No OSD display. Sound cuts out at channel switch-over. Sound OK at start up. When channels are changed using TV front control keys, channels roll over even when key released.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby .
• Functions for 5 mins then all the channel numbers begin to run through constantly while each time the picture comes up again and RCU does not function.
• When 120V at variac, UL1 reaches 280V. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Low contrast on TXT and OSGs.
• No manual or RCU command. Blocked on one channel, OSD apparent, sound present. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• No sound and no video not even in scart. 3cm white line at top of picture. Green LED on.
• Sound fizzles.
• All secondary power supply voltages are doubled.
• Vertical sync bar in the middle of the screen. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• S2055 blows. (FF422 tips)
• Poor scan.
• Loud noise when switched to standby. (extract of circuit diagram attached) (FF422 tips)
• When cold sound is nasal and weak. Sound ok when starting scart by a LF source. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No memory during programming.
• No switch on at start up. Standby light is off. At stop light comes on weakly then goes off.
• No picture at switch on. Picture appears when changing channel.
• Menu display is in a wrong language.
• Predominant green despite adjustment. (with circuit diagram extract)
• White dotted lines appear on left of picture in VHF/Band I reception.
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Adjusting the SECAM identification: chassis.
• Intermittently picture has no contrast and has a blue tinge. Sound ok.
• Hiss in audio. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Standby LED lights up and TV switches on, then 2 or 3 lines across screen and appliance switches to standby.
• Coloured tinge in picture.
• Starts nomally but if appliance stops after heating up for some time, TV flashes and may take a long time to start up again. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• No colour.
• Primary power supply fails under load.
• No colour from aerial or scart. IC TA8559CN has been replaced. Wave peaks at MP output are correct.
• Line in centre of picture.
• RC part number.
• Difficulty switching on at a high temperature (40°C). You can no longer switch on the appliance with the RC. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• TL19 in the line output stage is defective. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Picture jumps then stabilises in black and white always on the same channel out of all the channels available.
• Starts up one time out of ten then functions ok with a nominal voltage. The rest of the time it collapses. Start up and operation ok with the variac.
• Under certain conditions (static discharge etc.) may revert to factory set up mode.
• No colour.
• Line output transistor overheats. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Hissing sound. (SABA - FF422 information)
• Standby LED flashes bright and dark.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Little or no light.
• Stops intermittently. LED remains red. TV does not start up again with the channel button. Necessary to press the standby button then the channel button. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Weak colour.
• Impossible to go into standby via the front panel or the RC. Starts up at switch on with the red light lit. (with circuit diagram extract)
• PSU fails immediately after switch on.
• Commands performed with a delay.
• TP29 and TL19 fail after operating for 1 hr. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• RC part number.
• No colour.
• PSU only works in Burst mode, the red LED does not light up. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• After appliance has been moved, strange colours. Red has become blue and screen is affected by a mauve halo.
• Distorted picture. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• No brightness, only colours. Only one colour in TXT (mostly green). Loss of certain colours.
• Intermittently trips off for approx 1 sec.
• By pressing the buttons PROG + and - on the front panel the channel nos run through continuously. When disconnecting the control panel, difficulties in programming a channel. (with circuit diagram extract) (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Black screen. Channel 0 display on video.
• No picture content. Picture becomes increasingly bright with flyback lines. Switches to safety mode.
• Picture for 30 secs then white screen.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Vertical amplitude is too low.
• Chroma fault occurs although the tuning discriminators and the grey scale function correctly.
• Line stage does not start up.
• No start-up. Red LED blinks. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Chroma decoding.
• When pressing the switch the standby light comes on a little then goes off. (picture attached)
• White screen. Flyback lines.
• TT switches on automatically.
• Distorted picture. Lines in picture.
• Dark screen. Blue 1cm band at the top of the screen. No access to functions of: volume, channel, standby (no sound or picture). (extract of circuit diagram attached) (FF422 tips)
• Adjusting the UG2 screen grid voltage: chassis.
• White line. at bottom.
• No vertical deflection. (picture attached)
• Dark screen except for a 3cm high white streak towards the top of the screen. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• No start up of PSU. Low ticking. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• AGC delay adjustment.
• Line frequency drifts slightly.
• No reception. in UHF.
• Adjusting the SECAM (4,25MHz) colour carrier trap: chassis.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Line transformer does not start up. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Protection mode activated.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Value of capacitor position CP11 (power supply). (with circuit diagram extract)
• TV does not start up. TV01 not in safety mode. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• No picture. No sound. Switches off after 3 secs, remains in standby and has an afterglow fleck. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No NS correction.
• Transistor TP 29 short circuits after working for some time.
• Black picture like in AV at switch on. OSD and channel display function. In AV picture ok but no reception via the aerial. No snow.
• FP01 and TP29 blow at Power On. (+ extract of circuit diagram) (FF422 tips)
• No colour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Stuck in standby. Red LED dim. Possibly intermittent. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Sound sizzles. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Channels run through and do not stop. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Works for 10 secs then goes into standby. TV ok after switching off then on again.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Poor picture after 15 mins from start-up. Audio OK. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Does not switch on immediately when pressing switch, only after loudspeakers click 3 times and standby LED reduces brightness 3 times.
• Remains in standby or goes to standby intermittently.
• Red LED is lit. Slight hum from the speaker. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• The TV starts up. A white line appears at the top of the screen. System tension: voltage is approximately 58V, and the other voltages are low.
• No colour. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• In playback, especially with prerecorded cassettes the picture oscillates horizontally or is distorted like a flag in the top part of the screen.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Volume indicator at zero. Sound increases in 5 secs.
• Line stage does not start up. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Collector of the line line output transistor disconnects when soldered. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Excessive brightness. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Volume increases.
• Standby LED flashes up at second intervals. Only functions at a reduced mains voltage. (picture attached)
• Does not come on from standby, red standby light comes on. TV01 and TV02 in the protective circuit respond. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Does not start up. Remains in AV. When in standby, whistling from speaker. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• No function. Initially LED indication OK.
• No colour.
• OSD appears on its own. Switches from stereo to mono a number of times.
• White picture and flyback line. New FBT. S2055AF replaced by S2000AF which heats up and blows after a min.
• Dead. Power LED lit . (picture attached)
• TP29 fails after switch on.
• E/W correction can only be poorly adjusted. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• White screen with no snow. Normal sound. OSD functions. Same fault via scart. OK in RGB.
• Sound fizzles.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• No luminance, white is black.
• No picture, only snow. in PIP.
• Goes into safety mode after operating for a few mins or hours. Necessary to wait 2 mins to start again with the RC. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• TP29 is destroyed after 30 minutes.
• Shuts down (at start-up). (picture attached)
• Occasional memory fault when appliance is stopped by the general switch. When switched on again, appliance is deprogrammed. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• The picture is smaller and at the bottom of the screen.
• Line transformer is often defective. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (SABA - FF422 information)
• When set to standard adjustments the contrast value is too high.
• Adjusting the bell filter: chassis.
• Volume changes by itself or sound is distorted. (SABA - FF422 information)
• At start up, starts up then stops. Standby light remains lit.
• Switches to protection mode (after a while). (with circuit diagram extract)
• Spare part no. info: Power supply repair kit.
• Programmed on channels but still only snow. Selector does not react on channel inputs.
• Comes on for a short time.
• Vertical fault. Black screen.
• After a few minutes the channels keeps changing one at a time. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Line output transformer arcing.
• RC part number.
• Power supply crackles once then dead. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Line transistor S2000AF heats up then fails. E-W geometry ok.
• Random loss of station memory when CTV starts up.
• Focus adjustment.
• The appliance switches on at random when the remote control is used. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• No sound or picture. Slow beat of the power supply each second. The light flashes. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Very white lines at the top of the screen.
• TV starts up for a few secs and leaves a motor noise in the speaker. By disconnecting DL13, the appliance starts up again.
• When switching off the appliance in standby and with the mains switch there is a loud crackling in the speaker. (picture attached)
• Appliance hums and does not start up. (picture attached) (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Fuse cuts out without apparent reason.
• RC part number. (SABA - FF422 information)
• Amplitude and/or alignment vary intermittently.
• Part number info: processors.
• Switches off and on again at random.
• Goes into protective switching. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Shuts down. after start-up. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Starts up then stops immediately afterwards when ON/OFF switch pressed. (picture attached)
• After operating for some time sound is distorted or the sound hisses. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Dark picture. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Maximum luminance.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit. (FF422 tips)
• Picture runs through, impossible to stabilise.
• No picture. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No colour.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• S2000 blown.
• Hissing sound. (SABA - FF422 information)
• No line drive.
• No blue.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Dark picture.
• Modification to improve AGC adjustment.
• Sound has increased to maximum, after a moment, neither RC nor manual commands work. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• BU 508A in the power supply gets too hot and goes defective after approx 5 minutes. (with circuit diagram extract)
• When switched on, the standby light lights up but the power supply is tripping. (with circuit diagram extract)
• At switch on everything seems to be starting up well, EHT is established then 3 secs after the line oscillation is interrupted. 7V is now 13V and stays there. TV is apparently in stand by. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Occasionally small horizontal black line at the top of the screen and line transformer whistles slightly.
• White setting: picture tube board.
• S2000 fails.
• Green fault in the lower corner of the screen. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Switches off by itself. after a few minutes. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• There is little light.
• Sound fizzles.
• Chroma fault. Impression of there being a colour bar pattern superimposed on the picture NB: all the colours.
• HT whistles for a short time. Standby LED remains lit. Raster is defective. (part of circuit diagram displayed) (FF422 tips)
• Replacement kit of thyristor ESM740/G1/G2.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Shuts down. intermittently. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Volume varies (intermittently).
• Stuck in standby. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No colour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Audio hisses.
• Standby light lights up for 2 seconds then goes off. Appliance does not start up. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Coloured tinge in picture.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Horizontal line on a third of the picture towards the top. (picture attached)
• Arcing in picture. at top.
• Interference bands at the bottom of the screen.
• Power supply transistor S2000AF blows after operating for one hour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Replacing the TL19.
• Shuts down after 10 mins. Power LED remains lit. (picture attached)
• No function. Reset does not react.
• Power supply starts up for a few secs then collapses while pumping on standby light. (FF422 tips)
• Moire effect picture according to sound frequencies, on some frequencies the picture is ok for a fraction of a second. Melf RP54 is not present on the CTV chassis.
• In stand-by the light does not light up and the TV does not come on again.
• East/West amplitude changes with the beam current.
• Hiss in audio. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• No reception. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Blurred picture, focus pot does not work.
• No colour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Picture shows green, red and blue lines and the raster rattles audibly.
• Loud noise if appliance is switched to standby. (with circuit diagram extract)
• RC part number.
• Power supply pulsates every single second. Standby LED flashes.
• Vertical size adjustment. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Occasionally sound and video drift on channel 64. Operation is good on the other channels. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Teletext clock stops. Each 5cm high part of the picture is missing.
• Picture pulling on bright scenes.
• On the CRT board TT33 is S/C for the second time in a month.
• Blows at switch on. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• No sound with a Nintendo game. Game functions on another TV. (with circuit diagram extract) (SABA - FF422 information)
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Instructions for repairing the PSU. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Slow start-up (when cold). (with circuit diagram extract)
• Impossible to change standard, remains in SECAM. Picture inverted in PAL. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Horizontal black bars appear on screen. Parts of TXT picture are missing. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• The appliance stops after a few minutes then starts up again. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Poor audio (via SCART).
• PSU only works in standby; no switch on. (with circuit diagram extract) (FF422 tips)
• Sound fizzles.
• No sound. No line transformer and standby LED is on.
• No sound or picture. Standby light switches on and goes off in a regular rhythm. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Does not start up. Ok if power supply is 110V. Normal scanning.
• No HV. (picture attached)
• At start up line transformer powers up then appliance goes into standby.
• Sound ok in slow motion. A hum can be heard if you increase the power.
• All the secondary voltages are low. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Screen blank. Dark picture.
• No OSD. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• White picture, flyback line and too bright.
• Blank raster.
• No more line scanning possible. RL25 cuts out.
• S2000AF in power supply is defective. Functions OK for a week, then S2000AF and primary fuse defective. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Hum on sound and dark screen. Goes into standby.
• No power supply regulation. Standby LED flashes red every single second.
• FP01 blows.
• No colour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• After 5 mins a noise like rapid crackling occurs at the scanning level. Noise disappears if picture is misframed upwards. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Noise in speaker power supply. Goes to standby, starts up again and after 3 minutes goes to standby.
• Part no. info.: RC.
• Occasionally static discharge.
• Horizontal line. at bottom.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• No horizontal deflection. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Picture flickers with coloured OSD (eg from a VCR).
• TV starts up for a few seconds with a jerky noise then stops and so on.
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (extract of circuit diagram attached) (FF422 tips)
• Modification of connector on TXT IKC2-VT4P.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Power supply stops.
• Horizontal bars on picture during operation. This is accompanied by an audible signal distorting the sound.
• No audio. via tuner. No picture. via tuner. OK via SCART .
• At start up there is a power supply fault. TP29 must be replaced. After this the picture lacks vertical and horizontal amplitude. Reduced picture which has shifted to the bottom of the screen. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Streaky luminance and flyback lines.
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No power supply regulation. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• PSU fails immediately after switch on.
• Starts up three times then goes into safety mode. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Power supply voltage: 15V: 8V; 140: 80V. The same with the line transformer disconnected.
• TV01 and TV02 are in safety mode.
• Colour takes approx 10 mins to appear. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• How to remove protection.
• North/South correction cannot be adjusted correctly. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Blurred picture which occasionally becomes normal again.
• Switches off immediately without becoming bright. (with circuit diagram extract)
• TV functions, thermal tube noise on the screen but no picture. RCU does not work. Dark display, a channel is displayed, programme nos run through and stops on AV. No sound.
• Switches to standby (at start-up). (picture attached) (SABA - FF422 information)
• Service info: Contrast- and beam current adjustment after replacing chroma video module.
• Spare part no. info: Power supply repair kit.
• Vertical line.
• Normal sound, white screen, no picture, flyback lines. Impossible to reduce the brightness. (SABA - FF422 information)
• Starts up then goes into protection mode. Standby light on. Sound OK but no picture. Bluish screen with shadows.
• Picture slowly darkens. The cathode voltages are ok.
• Wavy picture.
• After an extended operating time TP01 (BUT12A) fails. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Pulsates if TV is started up after being put into standby.
• Luminance streaks and flyback lines.
• Vertical line approx 1/3 from left of picture. Hardly visible, but annoying.
• Only a horizontal line at bottom of picture.
• No colour (intermittently). (with circuit diagram extract)
• After switch on power supply pulsates three times.
• Vertical picture has shifted to top by approx 2cm at switch on. Picture OK after approx 10 mins.
• No colour.
• Channels run through, sound whistles and there are lines if picture present.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• RC part number.
• The picture disappears, drifts then reappears for a few fractions of a second and then drifts again. A whistling noise can be heard when the picture reappears.
• Hiss in audio. (picture attached)
• Switches to standby (after a few seconds). (picture attached)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• TL19 fails in line output stage.
• Does not switch on because the protection intervenes. Regular stand-by.
• No functions. Standby LED is not visible.
• White stripe at the top of the screen. It is 1cm high and not as wide as the screen. No picture.
• Transistor TP29 (S2000AF) fails repeatedly. (picture attached)
• No functions. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Switches to protection mode. intermittently.
• Horizontal output stage does not start up. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Power supply pumps. Standby LED flashes.
• At start up crackling in the sound and arcing on the picture for a few mins then ok.
• Standby light switches off. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Spare part no. info: Power supply repair kit.
• With S2000 when warm, PSU cuts out, starts again, cuts out etc. (picture attached)
• Dark screen with short bright flashes.
• Sound is broken up by the tuner. Ok via scart.
• No voltages on the secondaries and no light. (FF422 tips)
• No picture. No sound. Insufficient width. Picture has a 5cm band at top of screen.
• Picture goes into PAL occasionally but the sound remains normal. Picture returns to normal after a few secs.
• Stuck in standby. Hum in audio. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Arcing of line transformer and focus G2. Picture now has a large horizontal foldover from top to bottom of screen.
• Blows intermittently and switches on again. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Picture is slightly displaced towards bottom of screen.
• Dark screen, sound OK. Nothing in scart nor in RGB.
• The appliance has a dark picture.
• Production mode.
• Colour saturation.
• Dead. No voltage on the secondary. 300V on collector TP29. All the transistors and diodes are ok. Even no standby light.
• No colour. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Sound drops out for short while.
• At switch-on, vertical centering of picture offset by 2 cm towards the top of screen.
• Does not start up. Standby lit. Slight motor noise in speaker. (SABA - FF422 information)
• Dead. Intermittently OK from cold. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Three white lines at the top of the picture, nothing else. (picture attached)
• Low audio.
• Varying light intensity of standby LED. No start up but intermittent low hum. (FF422 tips)
• Appliance shuts down, then restarts. (picture attached)
• The appliance fails, no picture, no sound, base raster or horizontal lines.
• No reception. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• No function from RC, ok from front panel. RC receiver ok. (extract of circuit diagram attached) (FF422 tip from SABA)
• After a few mins switches to standby. After some time can be switched on again from RC. (+ extract of circuit diagram) (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• No horizontal synchronisation.
• Dark screen and the RL11 is open circuit. (SABA - FF422 information)
• After clicking and tripping a few times, power supply remains blocked in standby at switch on.
• When cold picture is very white with flyback lines and hum in sound.
• PSU switches off after start-up.
• Reduced horizontal deflection.
• TP29 fails after switch on.
• White balance adjustment.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Sound fizzles.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• No colour.
• Poor start up performance of the power supply.
• Horizontal white line. at bottom.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Occasionally memorized data of control unit processor is lost at switch on or switch off with mains switch.
• Can not be switched on from standby via RC. (SABA - FF422 information)
• Poor switch off of picture tube.
• Switches to standby (intermittently). (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Remains in standby. Hum in loudspeakers. (picture attached)
• Remains in "burst" mode with a hum noise in LF.
• Picture and sound hang up.
• Erratic start-up. No or intermittent start-up. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Occasionally changes channel by itself, channels run through or the function band appears. Occasionally when in standby, the TV switches on all by itself. (with circuit diagram extract) (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Cut off lines visible after some time.
• Distorted audio. Distorted picture.
• No sound and no picture. Appliance remains in stand by. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Picture and sound distorted. Hum in PSU.
• Remains in standby. Occasionally starts then goes into standby after 5 mins.
• Picture is OK although raster has moved up. (with circuit diagram extract) (FF422 tips)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Us is too high at 121Vpp instead of 52Vpp.
• Only the LL' display functions in the Multistandard version.
• B+110V power adjustment. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Occasionally the TV pulsates at start up.
• Blue fails - occasionally blue flyback lines visible.
• Sound fizzles.
• Vertical stability fault. (with circuit diagram extract)
• 3cm white line at top of picture. No sound and no video, not even in scart. Green LED on.
• Switches to protection mode (after start-up). (picture attached)
• PSU pulsates. Standby LED flashes . (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Burst of EHT. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Picture breaks up and crackles on sound.
• TL19 fails in line output stage.
• Standby light remains on at switch on. No picture, no sound, no function from RC or control panel. Slight noise from PSU as if TV trying to switch on.
• No line oscillation. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Sound fizzles. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• RC part number.
• Tuned to channels but only snow. Selector does not respond to channel input. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Horizontal oscillator adjustment.
• Audible start up when cold. Switches off after 1 sec. After switching on again, only standby LED is lit. No other functions. Raster is defective (with circuit diagram extract)
• Excessive vertical size.
• Intermittently increases and decreases in size both width and height.
• Excessive horizontal size. at top. Reduced horizontal size. at bottom.
• Sound fizzles.
• Standby LED flickers and PSU does not start up correctly.
• Goes into standby after a few secs. Appliance and EHT start up well at switch on.
• Line at the bottom of the screen then goes into standby.
• The power supply pulsates at start-up.
• No start up of line transformer.
• No horizontal deflection. Protective circuit trips. Standby light flashes. (+ extract of circuit diagram) (SABA - FF422 information)
• Switches on but no user controls from front control panel nor from RC. Does not even switch to FF.
• No colour. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Line transistor blows after 10 mins. DL11 98V instead of 200V.
• Sound fizzles.
• Colour fault.
• US voltage increases, CTV stops.
• Noise bar. after a few minutes.
• Vertical lines are distorted horizontally. E/W equalisation can not be adjusted correctly.
• Distorted picture. Strong streaking.
• Occasionally loud crackling from the housing.
• Power supply fuse blows at switch on. Everything seems ok. (FF422 tips)
• Horizontal transistor fails every few days.
• Crackling effect on video and echo.
• Tube tries to switch on then switches off. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Intermittent goes into standby when changing channel, also sound goes up and down intermittently. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• No audio (intermittently).
• Service information: Function of E/W stage.
• The power supply blows.
• Sound fizzles.
• Field centering off-set by 2cm toward top of screen when first switched on. (picture attached) (FF422 tips)
• Occasional crackling effect on the video signal.
• No videotext mode.
• Starts up then cuts out, starts up again every 10 secs and so on.
• Vertical line. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Poor audio.
• Power supply starts up 3 times at switch on then switches off. No picture or sound. Red LED is lit.
• Sound fizzles.
• Intermittently switches off and on when changing channels or when picture has high beam current content.
• No start up. No standby. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Spare part no. info: Power supply repair kit.
• Blue tinge in picture in SECAM, ok in PAL. Black and white picture ok.
• Channel raster has shifted by two or more channels.
• No power supply on the uP.
• Sound fizzles.
• No start-up from standby. after warm-up. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Blank screen. (FF422 tip from SABA)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• No colour. (with circuit diagram extract)
• No sawtooth signal on raster. Horizontal bar appears at bottom of picture.
• Hiss in audio. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Blue picture, black and white perfect when the colour adjustment is set to zero. More and more blue when you increase the colour adjustment. Intermittent fault. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• At switch on there is a noise and light goes out. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Flickering at switch on. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• RC part number.
• At switch on PSU goes defective.
• S2000AF blows each time appliance is plugged in. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Contrast average value is too high.
• High contrast. Strong colours. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• TV starts up well but with a lot of noise. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• HT oscillates and appliance stops.
• No colour during Canal Plus. (FF422 tips)
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• To improve operation of mute circuit.
• Dark screen. Blue 1cm band at the top of the screen. No access to functions of: volume, channel, standby (no sound or picture). (with circuit diagram extract)
• Siren noise in the speaker.
• Chroma fault. Intermittent coloured interference lines.
• Spare part no. info: Power supply repair kit. (SABA - FF422 information)
• No colour. (SABA - FF422 information)
• Can not be switched on from standby via RC.
• 1 flyback transformer pulse then standby. If the picture appears, one time out of five there is crackling in the transformer then standby.
• Power supply is dead, stand-by mode does not function.
• Line transformer starts up three times then nothing. LED stays red.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Screen lit up. No sound or picture. Thermal noise in the sound and snow. No function via RC or control panel (picture attached)
• No direct time insertion. (with circuit diagram extract)
• No picture, only three lines two thirds of the way down the screen. Goes into SAFETY mode after 1 min. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Channels scroll. Functions if control panel plate on front panel is disconnected.
• TDA8178 heats up too much and blows.
• Switches on, line transformer comes on then goes into standby immediately. (FF422 tips)
• Audio hisses. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Occasionally wide interference lines (similar to a defective HF-cable) appear on the screen. Picture is ok via Scart.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Line transformer starts up then stops.
• US voltage is 57V. If you unplug pin 3 from the line stage transformer the voltage returns to 113V. Line stage transformer has been changed.
• At switch on, front LED flashes irregularly or remains fixed. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No power supply. No standby on front panel. (with circuit diagram extract)
• No start up. Standby LED lights up. Cannot be started with the RC. (picture attached)
• Vertical collapse. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Repeated failure of chopper transistor TP29 (BUH515). (picture attached)
• Bright part approx 5cm high in the bottom quarter of the screen. The rest of the screen is dark. (with circuit diagram extract)
• No colour. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• To improve IF response.
• At switch on, control panel LED remains red and flickers faintly.
• Secondary protective circuit TV01 and TV02 disconnects intermittently. (SABA - FF422 information)
• Remains blocked on CH15 and PR8 at start up. Occasionally CTV functions normally.
• No start up. No U1 47V, U2 5V voltages.
• When playing back a cassette previously recorded by the same VCR, colours may be lost or blue flash interference due to the PAL pulse of the TV being triggered.
• Noise on loud speaker and the screen is black. The appliance goes to stand by after a few minutes.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Spare part no. info: power supply repair kit.
• No start-up (intermittently). (with circuit diagram extract)
• Set is dead but not tripping.
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Picture with predominant yellow/green.
• Appliance has no HF reception. Snowy picture.
• No bottom of raster. Incomplete deflection.
• Service info: How to enter the service mode
• No voltages at the secondary of LP36. Standby light on. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Resistor RT04 on the picture tube base blows repeatedly. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• No RC. No sound, no channel change after changing IR receiver, with or without RC. Manual controls ok.
• Stuck in standby. LED lit. .
• Loss of memory. Functions OK for approx 2 mins after storing channels again. Then all channels revert to channel 2. Also intermittently mutes.
• Crackling in picture and sound, even in VHF.
• Board required for TXT.
• RC part number.
• Colour bleeding.
• Trapezoid picture.
• Does not come on from standby, red standby light comes on. TV01 and TV02 in the protective circuit respond.
• PSU does not always start after switch on via front control or RC.
• Bottom of raster is missing. Deflection incomplete.
• Occasionally there is no light at all.
• Switches to standby. after a few seconds. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• At the start of production of the new IKC2 chassis, in TVs not fitted in series with teletext, the following components have not been fitted.
• Picture is displaced from frame towards top part of screen (approx 4cm).
• No picture scanning. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• New transformer, TV starts up and the US voltage increases to 122V instead of 140.
• No TXT. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Intermittent sound muting with no OSD. (picture attached)
• Sound is distorted or missing. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Excessive horizontal size. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Starts up with difficulty. Line transformer only starts up after several attempts. (service info for SABA -FF422)
• Shuts down. (FF422 SABA repair tip)
• Pale grey screen with fine horizontal line and hum at start up of the line transformer. (with circuit diagram extract)
• No start-up.
• Switches to standby (after start-up). (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Vertical foldover.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Switches to standby (after a while). (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• No sound or picture. No OSD via RC or front controls. Screen lightened, snow present. (picture attached)
• After switch on, vertical centering is shifted intermittently upwards approx. 2 cm; it goes to normal position after approx. 10 min.
• Switches to standby. intermittently. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Sound sizzles. (FF422 tips)
• Weak signal.
• Speaker or headphones crackle very loudly. Speaker is ok even with the sound turned off.
• No channels. Standby LED lit . (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Loud noise if switched to standby. (picture attached)
• Small flyback line at top of screen on left side.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• FBT is started up by a signal but appliance does not start. In standby mode. (SABA - FF422 information)
• No picture (intermittently). AV OK .
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Horizontal collapse. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Switches to standby. when changing channels.
• Loud noise, if appliance is switched to standby.
• Picture is at the lower picture edge and in time becomes a line. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Spare part no. info: power supply repair kits.
• Fault at top of picture about 4cm after 30 mins.
• No start up except at a certain temperature. Standby ok. (with circuit diagram extract)
• US (110V 90º - 143V 110º) goes high after a few mins and TV trips.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• TV only starts up very rarely, when it does start up, RL26 smokes, the deflectors heat up and smoke, distorted picture and the colours fade.
• No start up of PSU, sometimes intermittently.
• Adjusting the NTSC(3,58MHz) colour carrier trap: chassis.
• Thermal R349 O/C every 3 or 4 months. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• In VHF range (channel 5-12) white flecks and grey haze in the picture.
• HT fails immediately after starting up. PSU switches to standby.
• No colour. Intermittent loss of colour.
• Part no. info: PSU repair kit.
• Dark stripes in picture by bright picture content. Volume display jumps. Beam spot at switch off.
• Attempts to start then smoke appears.
• Power supply hiccups. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Incorrect picture height. Black 5cm bar at bottom, black 2cm bar at top of picture.
• Loses programmes from memory at irregular intervals.
• No colour. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Crackling in the speaker at start up and at switch off including standby. Slight noise in the speaker in standby. Occasionally trips at start up.
• Sometimes switches over by itself.
• Sometimes switches over by itself.