I made a service call today to a bar where they have 15 of these sets throughout the building. There are 6 in a row on this one wall. The sets are fed from a 16 tap splitter fed from a distribution amplifier. The 16th position is terminated. I'll try to describe this symptom as best as I can. Three of the sets on this wall seem to have what I at first thought was symptoms that mimicked a signal ingress into a cable like from a loose fitting. The picture has small straight across horizontal lines that wave through it at varying rates. I checked all the fittings in the distribution and although many were loose tightening them did not improve the situation. I got to the back of one of the affected sets to check the fitting and it was tight. I substituted a new wire to this one set but it did not make any difference. I swapped cables in the splitter too. I also tried the alternate RF input but with the same result. I was starting to suspect tuner problems until my son switched one of the sets to line and we noted that the wavy lines were also present on the blue screen with no video input. So it does not seem to be an RF problem but it is affecting three of the sets on this one wall and one other in a different location in the building. Is anyone familiar witrh anything common on this set that sounds like the problem I'm having? It just seems odd that four sets are similarly affected. Thanks very much for any assistance. Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics.
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18 years ago