Chapter 6
Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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Chapter 6
Maintenance and Troubleshooting
If an alarm message appears on the monitor screen or
the time counter display, or if the unit appears to be
malfunctioning, please check the following before
contacting your Sony dealer.
a) In these states, an alarm message appears on the
monitor screen and on the time counter display.
Troubleshooting
Tape problem
Symptom
Cause
Remedy
The unit’s tape transport
control buttons (PLAY, F FWD,
REW, etc.) do not work.
The REMOTE/LOCAL switch is set to
REMOTE and “LOCAL ENABLE” under
the OPERATIONAL FUNCTION menu
item is set to “STOP & EJECT” or “ALL
DISABLE”.
a)
Set the REMOTE/LOCAL switch to LOCAL and
change the menu setting of “LOCAL ENABLE” to
“ALL ENABLE”. (See page 32.)
No cassette is loaded.
a)
Insert a cassette. (See page 18.)
Monitor problems
Symptom
Cause
Remedy
Data is not superimposed on
the monitor screen.
“CHARA. DISPLAY” under the DISPLAY
CONTROL menu item is set to “OFF”.
Set “CHARA. DISPLAY” to “ON”. (See page 33.)
The image on the monitor’s
screen is too bright.
The 75
Ω
termination switch for video
input on the monitor is in the OFF
position or a 75
Ω
terminator is not fitted
to its video input connector.
Set the 75
Ω
termination switch to ON or connect
a terminator.
The monitor is not connected to the
VIDEO OUT 2 (SUPER) connector of
this unit.
Connect the monitor to the VIDEO OUT 2
(SUPER) connector. (You must make this
connection to display any type of text on the
monitor.)
The image on the monitor’s
screen is too dark.
In a video signal loop-through connection
of video monitors, 75
Ω
termination
switches for video input on monitors
other than the loop-end monitor are in
the ON position.
Set the 75
Ω
termination switches to OFF on all
monitors other than the loop-end monitor .
The tape is running, but the
time data is not shown in the
time counter display.
Time data problem
Symptom
Cause
Remedy
Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the
“COUNTER” or “TC” time data type indicator light
up.
The “U-BIT” time data type indicator is lit.
Playback operation problem
Symptom
Cause
Remedy
“REPEAT MODE” under the REPEAT
FUNCTION menu item is set to “ON”.
Repeat playback starts when
the POWER switch is turned
on.
Set “REPEAT MODE” to “OFF”. (See page 32.)