FST210R / SAISHO [TV]

• Repeat failure of the STR58041.
• The appliance remains in standby and the LED remains lit up.
• At switch on, blank screen and loud hash noise.
• Does not start when cold. Only chatters. Appliance runs when warm.
• Small picture with hour glass effect. (SAISHO - FST210R information)
• Switches off and goes to standby after hours or days. After switching back on, the appliance switches off again after 30 mins. After that, in even shorter time.
• No function, red LED lights up for a short time at switch on.
• Picture is missing, but sound is ok.
• Switches off by itself. at start-up.
• Picture is horizontally highly distorted.
• Stuck in standby. LED flashes once and goes OFF.
• Occasionally vertical picture jitter until total failure of the vertical deflection stage.
• E/W fault. No E/W correction.
• Stretched picture.
• No picture and sound. Buzzing sound at switch on. Standby LED is blinking, then go to standby.
• Standby LED switches off after start-up. Dead.
• Chirping.
• Switches on. Pulsates 3 times, then switches off.
• Horizontal sync error. Spund appears only when horizontal is synchronized. Can be adjusted with pot, but fails again when switching channel.
• No video or standard switching.
• Mains fuse blown and mains transistor T707 (BU908) s/c. (service info for SAISHO -FST210R)
• Pincushion distortion.
• Power supply goes into safety mode when coming out of standby.
• Standby LED lights even after switching on, and switches then off. Lamp lights.
• No blue.
• Vertical IC burnt.
• No sound or nasal sound.
• After half-an-hour flashing lines appear on screen.
• Necessary modification when replacing oscillator part.
• Set dead. R502 is in open circuit but at switch on there is a bright flash and the plug fuse goes open circuit.
• Distorted picture. at top.
• Excessive horizontal size.
• After changing the deflection transistor BU 508 it blows again after 1-2 days. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• G2 is too high, if attempting to decrease, picture is visible for a few secs then becomes dark. (FST210R SAISHO repair tip)
• Vertical lines on left side of screen, thiner towards edges and bigger towards centre, approx. 10 cm on screen. Lines tremble. Fault present also in AV mode with black screen. Switches off after a while.
• No RC functions. No front panel function.
• When switching from AV input to any pretuned channel, no horizontal sync, but shortly after picture synchonizes correctly.
• At switch on, stand by display lights up for a short time, line end stage attempts to work, but switches off again straight away.
• No start-up. No LED. Standby OK. (FST210R tips)
• No start-up (intermittently).
• Dead at switch on. Standby OK.
• The screen is black and the power supply whistles.
• The lower half of the picture does not exist.
• PSU chirps for approx 10 secs, then OK.
• White spot when switching TV off.
• Enable Hotel mode. Disable hotel mode.
• 24V when disconnecting collector of line transistor, otherwise voltage collapses. Line transformer does not start up. 5V on IC721. Display does not light up, standby lights up. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Picture becomes quite dark and gets distorted after 20 or 30 minutes.
• Dead. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Blank raster noise appears when aerial is unplugged.
• Line S2055 fails immediately. FBT has been changed, TDA8372 has been changed.
• Defective mains fuse. Functions OK for two weeks after replacement.
• When in standby appliance hums or crackles. LED pulses.
• No sound or picture channel change indicator o.k.
• Stand-by LED does not function. (SAISHO - FST210R information)
• Hum on sound and picture. Capacitor on mains rectifier has been changed. 12V and 16V on IC521 are too low. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Comes on for a short time. (picture attached)
• Ballooning. (FST210R tip from SAISHO)
• PSU doesn't start up. Pulsates.
• The appliance goes out of tune in VHF.
• Tearing visible especially with crosshatch pattern. Vertical lines.
• The power supply relaxes. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• The station storage breaks down completely, when connected to cable, all the programmes are mixed up. The contrast control is defective and the remote control does not work. (+ extract of circuit diagram) (SAISHO - FST210R information)
• Encrypted Canal Plus after 1 hr.
• Hum on sound and picture. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Vertical collapse.
• Tuning drifts.
• Line transistor blows after 1 hour.
• Stuck in standby. Attempts to start up, LED flashes one time and turns off.
• Standby LED flickers for approx 10 secs. Switches off.
• Horizontal stripe.
• Faulty vertical deflection.
• Black screen. (SAISHO - FST210R information)
• PSU does not oscillate. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Picture wavering at top.
• Vertical IC fails at switch on.
• Vertical stripe in the left picture third.
• No picture.
• Reduced picture, low brightness and varying sound.
• Occasionally the PSU does not start up. If it does, the appliance is ok. (PSU on the right with STK54041).
• Picture vibrates slightly for approx. 1 min.
• PSU attempts to start with noise. After 3-4 secs it stops and LED indicator goes off. (service info for SAISHO -FST210R)
• Poor quality picture in high channels.
• Picture has shifted.
• Appliance is dead. Sometimes starts if turned on and off several times.
• No picture. Sound OK.
• Vertical lines on right of picture. First line is blue. (picture attached)
• No start-up (when cold). (with circuit diagram extract)
• The picture is green and purple. No SECAM identification.
• Set dead. Trys to come on but trips rapidly then cuts off.
• During operation switches over by itself to other channels.
• Line output transformer is defective.
• The screen is black and the appliance is in safety mode. There is a white horizontal line across the screen. (picture attached) (SAISHO - FST210R information)
• No red.
• Power supply BU908 blows occasionally at switch on, never during operation. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Flickering colours with Canal Plus.
• Distorted picture. No audio (intermittently).
• R702 fails at once if the aerial cable is plugged in (cable connection).
• Intermittent colour bands at high contrast. (FST210R tip from SAISHO)
• Switches off after a few secs. with a whistling sound.
• No start-up (when cold). Standby LED flashes . PSU pulsates.
• Battery is discharged too quickly.
• Erratic start-up.
• Power supply squeeling and dead. (FST210R SAISHO repair tip)
• Hum in picture. Lines shifted on top.
• Switches off intermittently, comes then back.
• Picture shaking in random direction.
• Intermittent shut down, numbers still light up and the channels can be changed. (SAISHO - FST210R information)
• Power supply does not function. (SAISHO - FST210R information)
• Does not start up from standby, cracking is audible and appliance switches OFF, standby LED switches off.
• No tuning. Higher channels in band I/III/V are not received. (FST210R tips)
• Purity fault and the sound hums. The positive temperature coefficient resistor has been changed.
• Hiccups 3 times and switches off. Lamp lights.
• Set dead or intermittently dead. Set may not go to standby via remote.
• Intermittent line drive failure causing no picture but sound is OK.
• Crackling audio. Lines in picture. on the left.
• Small, pulsating picture, low brightness, sound level varies.
• 00 on display, remote control often fails or no functions possible.
• Stuck in standby. LED is red .
• Picture pulls inwards at the top
• No sound or picture with normal channel lights.
• Twisted picture when switching on from cold.
• IC401 (TDA3654) fails.
• E/W pinch and picture is folded up vertically at bottom. (service info for SAISHO -FST210R)
• Bright picture. Flyback lines.
• Image jitter in upper part when turning on. Disappears after a short while.
• PSU whistles. in standby.
• No synchronisation. intermittently.
• No start-up from standby. (with circuit diagram extract)
• No functions.
• Line shakes in the top part of the picture. V amplitude jumps.
• Tuning of the sound is incorrect as one track is O/C.
• No start up, stuck in standby. Red LED switches off when trying to start up.
• Low contrast (after warm-up). (SAISHO - FST210R information)
• Small pulsating picture, the sound varies up and down and the brightness goes low.
• No picture and no sound. Image distorted.
• Picture flickers horizontally.
• Occasionally, goes from top of picture to the green, hum in the speaker and dark bar. Goes from bottom to top.
• Power supply. When rebuilding this supply, it is possible that R512 may have failed.
• No vertical deflection.
• Picture width varies according to picture content. Power supply voltages ok and stable. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Time base whistles and goes into safety mode. Fault persists when FBT has been changed. (picture attached)
• No colour.
• The appliance switches off after hours or days and goes to standby. After switching on again it switches off after an even shorter period of time.
• Sometimes while watching a TV channel, TXT appears twisted, as if it had line tearing.
• Blank raster. Flyback lines.
• BU508 fails in line output stage immediately after start-up.
• LED lights up for 1 sec. at switch on then switches off.
• Stripes in picture. on the right.
• Shuts down. at start-up.
• No control of volume from front of set.
• Dead, channel lights OK.
• The side of the picture drops and a horizontal line appears. Only a third of the line end stage works. The sound is missing, but the power supply unit operates.
• Reduced vertical and horizontal size.
• Station memory cuts out intermittently, especially when connecting the cable the stations fall out. Then the contrast adjustment gets defective and the appliance doesn't respond to the RC.
• Dead. Whining. (FST210R SAISHO repair tip)
• Blinking colours or no colour on Canal Plus.
• Starts up only after several attempts, fizzles for 10 secs, then OK.
• Trips. when cold. No or intermittent start-up. when cold.
• No power supply outputs.
• Colour is uncontrollable.
• Poor start up when cold. Hiccups. OK after several attempts.
• "S" distortion. Cannot be adjusted.
• Vibration at top of picture. Picture height changes.
• No green.
• No HV (intermittently).
• Switches to protection mode.
• No start-up. Standby LED flashes .
• Black shadow in centre of picture.
• Shuts down. after start-up.
• Switches off by itself after a while. Vertical lines on picture right side of approx 10 cm. Jamming in AV mode.
• Vertical jitter.
• No vertical deflection, only a horizontal bright line. Sound OK.
• Snowy raster. (extract of circuit diagram attached)
• Picture is small and pulses, brightness is low and the sound is variable.
• Very distorted picture with very strong vertical waves and picture almost black and white. (+ extract of circuit diagram)
• Shuts down. Standby LED does not light.
• No colour.
• No start-up.
• Starts up, but after 10 minutes picture is snowy and tuner sensibility decreases
• Carries out unwanted operating steps eg. switches off, switches over channel, changes volume etc.
• Stuck in standby. (with circuit diagram extract)
• Sound but no picture.
• Appliance will not start up. IC701, D717 and C711 have already been changed. Appliance still won't start up. (FST210R SAISHO repair tip)
• Line output stage U is 45V.
• No audio. No picture.
• Does not start. PSU starts up briefly, then protective circuit is active. (FST210R SAISHO repair tip)
• Picture becomes snowy and image offset after approx 20 minutes of operation.
• Does not start up. LED comes on then goes off immediately.
• When switched on the appliance goes into stand by then starts up. (part of circuit diagram displayed)
• Intermittent no video or front display.
• Goes on and off again for a short time.
• Impossible to go into standard LL as the appliance remains locked in standard BG.
• LED flashes briefly at switch on, then appliance switches off.