Info and forum posts by 'pastyman'

RE: SHARP 28

Def sounds like the tube knackered especially if there is a long warm up time , sounds like poss you have another fault on its way, when you have a look at another check the colour , brightness contrast and make sure their not all whacked right up turn up the contrast and check for red outlines around verticals

RE: FREE 15 itv channels with sky digibox

stevie b what region??

RE: SHARP 28

Not all the Wharfdale,s req modifying it depends on which tube is fitted a panasonic req mod , Lg no mod req or Thomson no mod req, the problem is a small coil can overheat and I think they did have one catch fire the mod involves removing the coil and fitting a link

RE: Grundig 620 & VCD

Apparently the goodmans does I think this machine is similar but i havent tried minr yet

RE: SHARP 28

Turn the contrast down should cure the red " halo" around images if it has a sharpness control tun it down if the pic improves by adjusting the contrast the c.r.t has had it, brightness and colour should be set about the same , red ringing around images is a classic sign of tube failure what was wrong with the wharfedale?, some of them have Panasonic tubes

RE: SKY problems

Make sure you def have a grundig 200, take it apart there are three different versions of the power supply you,ve probably got the one with two h-sinks parallel with a third along the width of the board there are some caps crammed (and glued) in a very small space ,remove all the glue and replace
C3 100UF 25V
C12 470UF 63V
C16 1000UF 16V
C10 470UF 63V
C13 1000UF 16V GET 105,C HIGH TEMP

This item was edited on Tuesday, 8th January 2002, 10:26

RE: SKY problems

DONT pay Sky insure it see my above reply its a far better deal

RE: SKY problems

If your reciever is a 200 the capacitors on the secondary side will need replacing they can cause all manner of problems its a fairly simple operation , bit of a poor design etc you might want to consider getting it insured through Domestic & General £60.00 for a year covers the whole system and you,ll guaranteed to get a service engineer rather than a "installer".

RE: SKY problems

You are experiencing problems with low band channels the likely cause is your lnb especially if it is a Cambridge they are notoriously unreliable,The other poss is that your reciever,s power supply is generating switching noise because of worn out capacitors thus resulting in loss of these channels this problem is particularly prevalent with Grundig200 what stb have you got??

RE: GRUNDIG GDV 620 DVD+ 5.1 Home theatre for for £199 @ Currys

no unfortunately not I suppose you get what you pay for if you press the fcn button this will loop the scart in but you will only get sound on the front speakers

s video output on grundig gdv620ht

has anyone tried to connect the above output? My Panasonic tv accepts svhs via the second scart input at the rear and at the front under the flap,I have tried a s-video to scart no joy I am now going to try with s-video -s-video lead and see if it works just wondered if anyone else had tried it?

s video on Grundig gdv620ht

has anyone tried the s video output on this machine?? mine doesnt seem to work just wondered if it req enabling there does not seem to be anything in the manual?