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PC170 / TANDBERG [TV (chassis)]

The EURAS repair tip database for professional technicians and service engineers supplies the following faults for PC170 / TANDBERG.

List of fault symptoms:
  • Excessive horizontal size.
  • No start-up. LED lights up.
  • Switches to standby (intermittently).
  • Erratic proportions of colours in picture with strong presence of red when colour is maximised.
  • No colour. Shuts down (intermittently).
  • No picture. Arcing.
  • No picture.
  • Horizontal noise lines one min after switch on, then appliance switches off. LED remains green.
  • Does not find any channel in auto-search mode.
  • No picture. OK via SCART .
  • No functions.
  • No picture or sound after warming up.
  • No channels, not even through tuning search. (PC170 TANDBERG repair tip)
  • Dead.
  • No or poor start.
  • Vertical fault (amplitude), approx 10cm narrow stripe in the line.
  • Vertical fault.
  • Only outlines. Picture present.
  • No picture and no sound via aerial. Sound is present via SCART. Programme name appears in negative.
  • Horizontal line. No audio.
  • T25 blows. (service info for TANDBERG -PC170)
  • White frame with flyback line.
  • Horizontal stripe in picture centre. Beyond and beneath it approx 5cm picture.
  • Enter service mode.
  • Picture drops out.
  • No start-up. Standby LED lit .
  • Poor start-up when cold. Colour varies. (PC170 TANDBERG repair tip)
  • No picture. Audio OK .
  • Intermittently switches OFF in standby. (PC170 tips)
  • Coloured flyback line.
  • No start-up when cold. Red LED flickers.
  • No start-up.
  • No or poor sound.
  • Switching PSU doesn't function.
  • T31 (S2000AF) blows repeatedly.
  • PSU is defective.
  • MJF18008 defective immediately after start-up. (PC170 tips)
  • Does not switch on. LED flashes in red.
  • Repeated failure of BUT12AF, TEA2261 and R104 (4.7R).
  • No picture for several minutes. Picture is OK after several minutes.
  • White screen.
  • Switches to protection mode.
  • No vertical deflection.

With this service information, you may repair TANDBERG PC170 faster/better when it fails.

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Additionally to repairtips or service information PC170 is linked to 25 components (IC's and/or transformers) in the Tectra database, through which you can identify electrical compatibilities (crossreferences) in appliances.


For PC170 there are 3 compatible appliances known and can be listed.


In the repair discussion pinboard for PC170 there are 15 replies to questions asked about 9 different repair problems.
With access to EURAS you can all read them or enter your own questions and get help for PC170 from EURAS technicians or other users.

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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/household/Video electronics repair shop close to you.

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Last updated: 07. Oct 2008 23:03:15 MET, doccode ISO9002AS168EKA200805C EURASMOP

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