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Title: goodmans RF fault
Post by: pc on January 26, 2012,13:07:24
Hi, I,m a new member asking for advice about the following,
I have a Goodmans LD3266D LCD TV which faulted last night just as the football match started.
The blank TV screen stated "no signal"  so I checked the arial cable at the TV end with my signal test meter and got a 70dB/uV signal strength given as "ok" I swapped the TV over with another TV (small LCD Goodmans) and it worked fine, so the fault appears to be in the TV
I removed the back to check that nothing obvious was amiss and every thing seems fine.so the question is where do I go from here?
Thanks for any assistance
PC

Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: sabre504 on January 26, 2012,14:12:44
Hi have you tried other connections on the inputs such as scart or s vid , hdmi ?
Paul
Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: sparky on January 27, 2012,04:55:06
hi
try freeview box thro scarts and see what happens might need
new software
dave
Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: pc on January 27, 2012,06:28:58
Hello Paul (saban) I am back live again. It was the login problem
Just to update the thread having failed to get a signal through the HDMI connection I went into the TV direct with the aerial and got the same "no signal" response. changed the TV over with another one and got a good picture, no signal problem.
I have just tried again with the TV using scart and initially got a "antenna cable short circuit" message but that went off and I got a picture albiet poor sound, changed over to HDMI and picture and sound ok.
There is something wrong as the error message informs me but what would cause that error as I know that the aerial cable is good
Thanks again for the help
PC

Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: pc on January 27, 2012,06:59:06
Just a quick update
Turned the TV on after a 30min break and "no signal" error message now on showing in both scart and HDMI connections??
PC
Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: sabre504 on January 27, 2012,09:09:46
Have you checked the output voltages on the psu ?
Paul
Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: pc on January 27, 2012,09:29:45
Hi. Paul,
No I havn't checked it yet,(I don't know how to but by neighbour is an electronics engineer so I will get him round hopefully later today to do the test) they reply
Thanks
PC
Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: sabre504 on January 27, 2012,10:54:05
HI well ask him to check volt regulators on the main board as well if he wouldnt mind .

As you said it worked for a while then stopped working again, had the same problem on a set that if you unplugged it for a couple of hours it would work until you turned it off then it wouldnt come back on again until you left it unplugged for another couple of hours.
That was a regulator that caused it worth a check or as sparky said could well be a software issue
Paul
Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: pc on January 28, 2012,09:00:32
Hi,
I have resolved the problem, which wasn't really a problem at all
I started again from basics and found that I had sourced "TV" instead of "DTV" on the television
So I corrected that and re-tuned both the TV and the recorder and now have a perfect picture.
Could the fault that I had, have resulted in changes still taking place with the incoming RF signal at the time I lost the picture? as prior to that point I had no problems, and I changed over from analogue to digital last September or so I thought!!
Anyway, thanks for your input and I have learn't again that "back to basic's" is always the right option
Paul C
Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: sabre504 on January 28, 2012,15:28:49
Glad you sorted
Paul
Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: sparky on January 28, 2012,18:19:29
hi
you glad you sorted it but surely you would have checked to see if in dtv mode
also you said in scart mode nothing coming thro when you tried freeview?
Title: Re: goodmans RF fault
Post by: pc on January 29, 2012,07:21:02
Hi,
This TV is used primarily when I want to watch a program that my wife dosn't so I get kicked out of the lounge where the main viewing TV is and sent to the Goodman TV in another room so it isn't in use daily.
I think it was a number of factors coming together, it was ok.the last time I used it prior to the football match I wanted to watch but I presume it went out of tune. In the events that followed I ended up with it sourced on TV not DTV and as I said didn't revisit basics thus ended up on this forum.
I think the letter I was about to post to Prof Brian Cox about joining his team on particle physics I will put back
in the drawer for a month or two
Thanks again for the advice
Paul C