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6013 / ULTRA [TV]

The EURAS repair tip database for professional technicians and service engineers supplies the following faults for 6013 / ULTRA.

List of fault symptoms:
  • Frame bounce when warm.
  • After extended operating time makes loud banging noises and picture distortion. Also occurs in aV mode.
  • Low audio.
  • Intermittently blowing mains fuse.
  • Line "hunting" with tripping after 1 minute.
  • Lines flash on screen, may not affect all channels.
  • Trips.
  • No raster (eht and sound OK). Usually after fitting focus control.
  • Flyback lines in AV only.
  • Tripping on channel change.
  • Text lines at top in AV mode.
  • Line cramp with vertical lines on left hand side of screen.
  • Picture bowed at sides.
  • 300-600HZ buzz on left hand channel with V/C down.
  • RC brightness adjustment function does not work. Picture is good but not bright enough as beam limiter appears to function too soon.
  • Line fault.
  • Intermittently dead.
  • Intermittent loss of CRT heaters.
  • Appliance has search tuning of the single press button type. Locks to each station it comes to automatically. If left switched off, memory dies on channel 1 only.
  • Ripple on verticals with bright scenes.
  • Snow in picture.
  • No switch on via RC.
  • Comes on in standby mode. Unable to start.
  • Picture blanked, except for the final inch or so at the right hand side, where the picture content is correct.
  • VOL control varies or goes to standby.
  • Rolling & tripping intermittently.
  • Picture has white spots.
  • Comes out of standby.
  • Rolling & tripping intermittently.
  • Will not store tuning. Set may only store 1 or 2 channels. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Sound comes on after a few secs.
  • Picture is missing, sound and raster correct.
  • Defective stereo sound.
  • No E-W correction.
  • Frame rolling.
  • RCU transmitter problems.
  • Intermittent random volume and brightness variations.
  • Teletext black box remains on screen.
  • No picture or sound snowy raster with mute LED lit all the time.
  • Appliance trips intermittently, TR701 fails after several weeks.
  • Line speed incorrect.
  • Frame foldover or creeping.
  • When set switched on, No 1 shows in the channel display but No 1 preset cannot be used to tune in a channel- it has no effect. Instead controls 3 and 7 tune position 1.
  • On pre-recorded tapes the line synchronisation is poor. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Tripping and reduced width. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Picture rolling when warm.
  • Picture moved to left.
  • Dark lines at top of picture.
  • Field scan distorted. (service info for ULTRA -6013)
  • Field linearity problems. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • No raster. Screen does not come up.
  • Intermittent sound and vision.
  • Bright raster with flyback lines.
  • Field cramp at bottom and rolls after a while. (service info for ULTRA -6013)
  • Width defects.
  • No 119V rail.
  • Dead. 320V on chopper.
  • Half inch wise black line across picture with picture instability.
  • Bright lines appearing at bottom of picture.
  • Set dead. No 11.5V on pin 9 of IC801 (TDA2582) chopper control.
  • Stuck in stand-by.
  • Wavy vertical lines wavy with intermittent field roll, then trips.
  • Faint intercarrier buzz.
  • Picture is missing, raster and sound correct.
  • Poor line synchronisation on pre-recorded tapes.
  • Flyback lines.
  • Green screen.
  • The appliance is tripping (stops when PL4 is unplugged).
  • Weak contrast.
  • Standby LED on after switch on for approximately 1.5 minutes.
  • Black stripes on left hand side of screen.
  • Flickering picture.
  • Relay trips on high brightness.
  • Video heads are dirty or faulty.
  • Striations on right hand side of screen.
  • Text lines at top of screen on video channel.
  • Intermittently picture drifts approx 15cm towards the right and 2 black bands appear on the left side of the screen which is left with no picture.
  • Inadequate line sync on prerecorded tapes.
  • Hum and dark picture.
  • Picture is missing, just a green raster with flyback lines.
  • No line scan, no channel display and no video intermittently.
  • Various hum bars or distorted picture.
  • Slight ghost effect on picture.
  • Low contrast, poor field sync.
  • Sound and video are missing.
  • Appliance is dead but at switch on the standby LED flashes.
  • Field collapse. Trips.
  • Second LED on bass/treble/balance permanently.
  • No power up from RC or normal ON/OFF.
  • Retrace lines at top.
  • When replacing frame output IC. (TDA3652 no longer available).
  • Random operations of RC.
  • Vertical roll.
  • Tuning searching, hum in speaker.
  • Only odd numbers obtainable on channel change.
  • Reduced height with foldover and/or field collapse.
  • Reduced height & slow flyback.
  • Appliance trips, T721 continuously fails.
  • Contrast problems.
  • Width is reduced.
  • Frame is reduced, foldover or fails.
  • Tripping after 10-20 mins.
  • 3/4 of the picture is blanked out (bottom part).
  • Failure of the tuning to stop or the LED flashing constantly.
  • Defective line linearity.
  • No picture at switch on.
  • Intermittently appliance trips with field roll.
  • Line faults.
  • Tuning drifts, patterning.
  • 1" of field scan.
  • TDA3652 no longer available.
  • Intermittently appliance trips then breaks down.
  • Low gain on loop aerial.
  • During REC image disappears. Menu cannot be displayed or decoder appears in display.
  • Cassette is ejected when in timer mode for longer period of time. Also sometimes ejected when in standby (very rare).
  • Line cramping and vertical lines on left hand side of screen.
  • No signal and intermittent sound dropout.
  • High pitched whistle intermittently.
  • Bass, treble and balance second LEDs are on constantly.
  • L/h side picture peak white & flyback lines r/h side ok.
  • No FF/REW.
  • Flyback lines on white screen.
  • LED flashing continuously.
  • No line sync and the line hold control has no effect.
  • Poor interlace at the centre of screen. (6013 tips)
  • No RC functions (intermittently).
  • Trips, but is OK if scan coil plug is disconnected.
  • Picture is grainy and sound noisy.
  • No colour.
  • No audio.
  • Ragged verticals at high brightness settings.
  • Defective bass.
  • High pitched buzz when on AV channel.
  • Line synchronisation is missing.
  • Intermittent brightness fluctuations. (ULTRA - 6013 information)
  • Focus problems.
  • Line tearing at high brightness.
  • White lines at top of screen.
  • Faint white vertical line approx 4 inches from the left hand side of screen
  • LF hum with connections to stereo VCR.
  • Black bar moving down screen.
  • No sound/vision, channel indicator and EHT OK.
  • Vertical collapse.
  • Bangs and trips when warm.
  • Tripping plus low, growly hum from speaker.
  • Tripping. (ULTRA - 6013 information)
  • Field sync bar runs slowly down screen when set warm. (6013 ULTRA repair tip)
  • 2 large hum bars plus humming on sound.
  • Fast tripping.
  • Remote brightness not working very well. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Brightness fault.
  • VOL level increases.
  • Low width
  • Incomplete sweep at top of screen. 1 in. wide strip of white horizontal lines at top of screen. (service info for ULTRA -6013)
  • Blank raster, no sound.
  • CRT cuts out, no picture. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Display fades out after a couple of hours.
  • Picture is displaced to the left.
  • Colour fault on teletext.
  • No channel 3 display, otherwise it works perfectly.
  • Intermittent teletext.
  • Intermittent loss of CRT heaters.
  • Numbers 1 to 4 on channel indicator are not working.
  • Spooks effect.
  • 50Hz hum at low volume.
  • Intermittent field bounce. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Blank, snowy raster with mute LED on. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Shading in picture.
  • Foldover and/or field collapse. Reduced height.
  • Frame roll when brightness is changed.
  • Failure of M293 loss of tuning memory.
  • No TXT, audio or channel +/- functions.
  • Concave raster.
  • The appliance blows TR701 (chopper transistor).
  • Line drive and line oscillator are missing. (6013 ULTRA repair tip)
  • Frame roll-with change of brightness.
  • No TXT (intermittently).
  • When appliance is warm interlace is poor.
  • Teletext lines appear at the top of picture.
  • No picture. BU508A blows.
  • Cramping at bottom and rolls after a while.
  • Slightly low width. Linearity is OK. (6013 ULTRA repair tip)
  • Dead. TR801 is leaky.
  • Motor boating when switched on. Lop transistor collector to earth low resistance in circuit.
  • Negative picture.
  • Line linearity problems.
  • Line tearing plus intermittent tripping.
  • Low frequency hum varying with video content.
  • Cramped frame.
  • Poor line sync on pre-recorded tapes.
  • Text lines at top.
  • No picture, no Eht no heaters all Ht's slightly low.
  • Set comes out of standby.
  • Low 119V or 20V rails.
  • Dead.
  • Noise on picture.
  • Slight line tearing and hum/flashing intermittent tripping.
  • No picture (intermittently).
  • Horizontal black lines on screen.
  • Picture is missing, sound ok.
  • Ballooning effect.
  • Cuts out intermittently.
  • No tuning volts.
  • White spots on the picture and loud screeching on sound.
  • Colour is missing on teletext.
  • Horizontal flag-waving in picture.
  • The appliance has flyback lines and A1 pot inoperative.
  • Frame foldover at top and cramping.
  • Whistling noise on stereo.
  • Volume/col varies or goes to standby.
  • On teletext or mix, synchronisation is missing. TV ok.
  • Pulsing power supply.
  • Poor line sync also low brightness.
  • Chopper transistor and HT fuse blown.
  • General field or frame defects.
  • Intermittently trips and occasionally goes to standby. Ok if scan coils unplugged.
  • Set tripping as soon as turned on, EHT can be heard to rustle up.
  • Teletext black box stays on screen.
  • Random tripping on channel change.
  • Goes into standby at switch on.
  • Slight line tear, hum with flashing. Tripping intermittently.
  • No audio.
  • Faint picture with mikly or glistening whites, flashover or poor purity.
  • Jagged verticals on bright pictures.
  • Teletext lines over the picture on AV channel.
  • Intermittent no raster or dark picture.
  • Intermittent high pitched whistle. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Width decreases, set starts tripping 150V rail.
  • Lower part of picture blanked out.
  • No function. TR721 cuts out and the voltage is too high.
  • Trapezoid picture. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Flyback lines at the top of the picture.
  • Synchronisation faults.
  • Line oscillator running at wrong frequency.
  • BU508 goes short circuit after 2 mins.
  • No width or pincushion control.
  • Sound ok. Peak white raster, then tripping.
  • When appliance has been switched on the standby LED remains lit.
  • No frame sync.
  • Height problems.
  • Frame cramp and rolling at bottom.
  • Height drifts.
  • Trips, usually at switch on.
  • Grey scale fault (TDA3560).
  • The appliance has a white screen with flyback lines.
  • Weak brightness.
  • Line hunting and appliance trips after one minute.
  • No blue in TXT mode.
  • Ghosting.
  • Vertical foldover. (6013 ULTRA repair tip)
  • Modification for TDA3654. IC 431-Field Output IC for TX10.
  • Zig Zag verticals.
  • Random channel changing and going to standby.
  • Continuous sweeping (at switch on).
  • When replacing frame output IC TDA3652.
  • Relay chatters.
  • Intermittent destruction of FS1 and R106.
  • No TXT. Slight shift to left or OK on mix.
  • The appliance has flyback lines at top 2".
  • Loses sync after approximately 1 hour.
  • Poor field interlacement in centre of picture.
  • Shuts down (intermittently).
  • Reduced vertical size.
  • Teletext message stays on screen.
  • No picture with hum on sound and intermittently trips.
  • No E/W correction.
  • No east/west correction. RV851/852 is functional.
  • No picture. Sound OK. (service info for ULTRA -6013)
  • Severe frame distortion.
  • Peak white raster followed by tripping. Sound OK.
  • Set dead lop transistor S/C.
  • Pincushion distortion.
  • Picture is missing, just green raster with flyback lines.
  • Picture and CRT heaters are missing, sound and EHT ok.
  • Intermittently line, channel display and video are missing.
  • Intermittent tripping and line squegging, trips from cold start, line squegging begins at bottom of screen and rolls upwards. Chopper transistor's heatsink hotter than normal.
  • Intermittent bar graph display at switch-on.
  • Frame reduced/foldover or collapse.
  • Battery dead.
  • Vertical collapse (intermittently).
  • Field scan is non linear.
  • The appliance has flyback lines and AV channel only.
  • Trips and then stops when scan/coils are disconnected.
  • Picture and sound are missing, raster ok.
  • Displays AGC off tune errors for first 30 mins after switch on.
  • Reduced height to approx 4" scan.
  • Width problems.
  • Intermittent field roll and tripping.
  • Snow or ghosting.
  • Sideways jitter when PB selected.
  • Black horizontal lines across the screen.
  • Standby LED remains on after switch on.
  • Flyback lines at top inch of picture.
  • Dead. Channel indicator on.
  • After a few hours picture is missing and CRT heaters are missing.
  • Intermittent shuts down.
  • Tripping, rolling and excessive width.
  • Intermittent snowy picture with loss of sync.
  • Picture gradually grows dark.
  • Reduced vertical deflection.
  • No teletext display apart from the beginnings of a few characters on the extreme left hand side of the screen.
  • Field bounce, field roll and line jitter.
  • FS1 (2.5aT) blows.
  • Sweeping continuously at switch on.
  • Incorrect line frequency.
  • Intermittently appliance trips with rolling and too much width. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Dead (new stock). (ULTRA - 6013 information)
  • No control over width and pincushion correction.
  • Dark picture and hum on sound.
  • Chopper transistor TR701 blows instantly at switch on.
  • Insufficient purity.
  • Second LEDs for bass, treble and balance permanently on.
  • Intermittent fast forward/rewind search (22B5 used with 3V43).
  • Line hunting with tripping after 1 min.
  • No red in TXT.
  • General frame or field defects.
  • Teletext and channel change do not function, sound is missing. (6013 ULTRA repair tip)
  • Can be switched on from cold but after about a quarter of an hour it trips on and off a few times then remains off. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Unsteady frame scan, lines may be present.
  • Loss of vertical sync when warm.
  • Set trips every half hour or so.
  • No field sync.
  • Text lines at top of picture.
  • Switches off from standby position.
  • Foldover at the top of the picture.
  • Drop out during channel change.
  • Colour fault.
  • Preset volume level gets higher.
  • Top foldover.
  • Defective volume.
  • Field instability.
  • Sound is missing for a few seconds.
  • No text/audio/channel up and down.
  • Jagged verticals, most severe down the sides of the picture, effect varies with contrast level.
  • Blank raster with flyback lines.
  • Tripping and line output stage whistling.
  • Striation on right hand side of screen.
  • Noise bars.
  • Vertical jitter.
  • Channel 1 memory lost at switch on.
  • Inadequate line sync with reduced brightness.
  • The set trips and frame collapse in between tripping. (6013 tips)
  • Buzz in audio.
  • Drifts off tune very occasionally.
  • RC range reduced to 3-4 feet.
  • No start up from remote or normal on/off.
  • TR10 blows at switch on.
  • No line sync.
  • CRT problems.
  • Fuse blown to burglar alarm.
  • Faint picture with milky or glistening whites, flashover or poor purity.
  • Distorted sound at low V/C settings.
  • Raster collapse.
  • Bright raster with flyback lines.
  • General frame and field defects.
  • CRT cuts out, no sound. (6013 ULTRA repair tip)
  • Height is reduced to approximately four inches.
  • Intermittent blowing of line output transistor.
  • No picture, sound hum and intermittent tripping.
  • TR701 (chopper) trips as soon as appliance is switched on.
  • Defective mono sound.
  • Non-linear line scan.
  • Teletext message stays on and/or channels change at random.
  • Line output transformer faulty.
  • Crackling sound with volume turned down.
  • Hum from speaker when standby selected.
  • No brightness. (6013 tip from ULTRA)
  • Flyback lines at top of frame.
  • Striations.
  • Intermittent noise on sound. (like poor earthing on audio section).
  • Picture dim and then no picture. (ULTRA - 6013 information)
  • Goes into stand-by.
  • Slow start-up.
  • Line interference.
  • Intermittently TXT blocks and clock stops.
  • Stuck in standby.
  • Field cramping. (ULTRA - 6013 information)
  • Lines in picture.
  • Faulty CRT due to spot burn.
  • Defective treble. (ULTRA - 6013 information)
  • Picture is missing, raster and sound ok.
  • Poor field interlace in centre of screen.
  • TR6 blows at switch on.
  • Snow on raster.
  • Range reduced to about 3 feet.
  • RC operates at random.
  • No field sync, no sound.
  • Sound buzz.
  • Teletext problems.
  • Field bounce at switch on.
  • After 15 mins picture starts narrowing and then trips out.
  • Sound ok but no EHT or CRT heaters.
  • The appliance trips off after 10-20 minutes.
  • Tripping line output transistor BU208 S/C. When replaced BU208 goes faulty after short while.
  • The appliance has no line, no channel display and no video (intermittent).
  • No picture. No heater. Sound OK.
  • Moire pattern.
  • No A1V after changing line output transistor.
  • Spot burn on CRT.
  • Playback video has sideways jitter.
  • Loud hum on sound and two large hum bars on screen.
  • Line noise.
  • No picture.
  • The appliance changes channels (intermittently). (service info for ULTRA -6013)
  • Frame bounce when cold.
  • Picture fades and returns intermittently.
  • Appliance trips at random when channels are changed.
  • Low sound as if muted; comes on for instant
  • Line osc freq varies when cold, or high beam current.
  • The appliance drifts off-tune.
  • Vertical lines wavy. Intermittent field roll then tripping.
  • Height is reduced with slow flyback lines.
  • IC601 (TDA3560) becomes defective after a short time. (6013 ULTRA repair tip)
  • Blank white raster. (6013 ULTRA repair tip)
  • Lines flash on picture, may not affect all channels.
  • Intermittent hum on sound.
  • Sound OK, no picture.
  • The appliance has flyback lines at top 1" of scan.
  • Goes to standby by itself.
  • Incorrect picture size.
  • Poor interlace when warm.
  • Buzz on sound with stereo VHS.
  • The appliance trips and stops when focus unit is disconnected.
  • No line sync after 60 mins.
  • No colour.
  • No sync on TXT. Mix TV OK.
  • Critical field sync.
  • Defective speaker.
  • Frame bounce for first five mins. (6013 ULTRA repair tip)
  • Intermittent bar graph display on at switch on.
  • Loss of tuning memory at switch on (as for D345).
  • Rolling and appliance trips intermittently. (ULTRA - 6013 information)
  • Picture out of focus, loud hissing from back of set.
  • Faint picture with milky or glisening whites, flashover or poor purity.
  • Line tearing with high brightness.
  • Field sync is intermittent.
  • Tuning does not function (sweep tune LED does not flash) and raster is snowy.
  • Rapid destruction of BU208A line output transistor.
  • TR701 blowing.
  • No picture, only snow on screen.
  • Intermittent field rolling and the line sync jitters, more so from cold.
  • Changes channel by itself, goes to TXT and intermittently powers down.
  • Blows BU508A.
  • No vertical deflection.
  • Line ringing then appliance trips. (service info for ULTRA -6013)
  • One colour is missing or excessive.
  • Noisy line whistle.
  • Sound goes loud when channels are changed.
  • Dead. Standby LED flashes at switch on. (ULTRA - 6013 information)
  • Line tearing at switch on.
  • Picture interference plus noise on sound.
  • No line hold.
  • TR10 blows after several minutes.
  • Distorted sound, IC hotter than normal.
  • Set trips if line stage distorted. P/Supply runs but TR701 overheats and fails.
  • No synchronisation.
  • Appliance is dead and trips. TR721 cuts out. (ULTRA - 6013 information)
  • Loss of line lock when starting from cold, also line tearing.
  • Stripes (on receivers fitted with PC1548).
  • No switch on using RC.
  • Striations on left hand side.

With help of this list a solution is found often when ULTRA 6013 fails.


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Last updated: 30. Aug 2008 14:48:10 MET, doccode ISO9002AS168EKA200805C [cachelite] EURASMOP

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