Dave, Here's a tuner troubleshooting you can follow: TROUBLESHOOTING THE TUNER IN THE CTC 175-187 CHASSIS Step 1 Check the voltage at U7401-10 (5VDC) This will verify B+ and establish a good ground. Step 2 Monitor the voltage at Q7401-C Tuner Control If the voltage is changing when you change channels this would indicate U7401 is working. Step 3 Check the voltage at U7501-4 Quad Op Amp This is the 33 volt used for channel tuning. Step 4 Monitor the voltage at Q7402-c Band Switch Transistor You should have a negative DC voltage for band 1 (-11 to -14 VDC) You should have a positive DC voltage for band 2 (+11 VDC) This will switch positive or negative as you change bands. Step 5 Monitor the voltage at U7401-9 Mixer/OSC This is the band switch used at U7301-7. 3 VDC activates the VHF OSC at pin 11. When UHF is selected, U7301-7 should go to 0 VDC. The UHF OSC at U7301-14 should be running. When OSC isn't running the voltage is about 10 to 11 VDC and when the OSC is running the voltage will measure about 4.5 to 5 VCD. Another good thing to know is that if U7301-1 is low (less than 5 VDC) the chip is probably bad and the tuner alignment won't respond because the RF AGC will remain high. Step 6 The voltage at U7401-9 is also used for RF Band Switch Q7403 and Q7404 collectors are connected together and the state of the common collectors determines the VHF/UHF RF switching. When the voltage at U7401-9 is high (7 VDC), Q7403 turns on. Its collector is 0 VDC and the VHF RF amp Q7102 is turned on by lowering the source voltage to about 4.5 to 5 VDC. When U7401-9 is low (0 VDC), Q7404 turns on. The collector is high (11 VDC). Q7102-S will go high turning the UHF RF amp off. At the same time Q7101-D (UHF RF amp) goes high and the UHF RF amp is turned on. An overview would be when a VHF band is selected, U7401-9 is 7 VDC. You should have 3 VDC at U7301-7. The VHF Mixer/OSC will be running and the voltage at U7301-11 will be about 4.5 to 5 VDC. Q7403 will be in saturation and the collector is at 0 VDC. When U7401-9 is 0 VDC, U7301-7 is 0 VDC and the UHF Mixer/OSC is selected. U7401-14 will now measure about 4.5 to 5 VDC. Q7404 will turn on, collector is high and the UHF RF amp is selected. Step 7 Q7401 off U7401-14 is the Tuning PLL Transistor Its collector is used to control the 33 VDC for tuning. This voltage is used at U7301-3 as a tuning reference for the QUAD OP AMP. The digital information stored in the eeprom comes into U7501 pins 5,10 and 12. This information is converted to an analog value at pins 7,8 and 14 and used to tune the varactor diodes to band pass the selected channel frequency. You can use a DVM to measure the voltage at U7501 pin 3. This is the tuning reference. Selecting channel 2, you should have about 1.35 VDC on pin 3 and about 1 VDC at pins 7,8 and 14. Selecting channel 13, the voltage at pin 3 is about 2.01 VDC. Pins 7,8 and 14 about 6 VDC. Now you should go to the varactor diodes and measure approximately the same voltage at their cathodes. (Keep in mind that these voltages will change as you chage channels). When in the air mode, you may use the chart at the bottom page 49 in the CTC 175/176/177 training manual for reference. When in the cable mode, use the chart on page 51. VARACTOR DIODES are designed such that their capacitance is dependent on the voltage across the diode. As the tuning voltage varies across the diode, a varactor acts like a variable capacitor causing the tuned circuit to vary its frequency. Different channels are tuned in this manner. (Note: Varactor diodes work with reverse bias). Thanks to Bob Rose for providing the above information... >From: "Dave Huston" <DaveHuston@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [TechAssist] RCA CTC177BE tuning problem >Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:47:11 -0500 > > >This one tunes channels 2-13 fine. UHF channels won't change. I get the >same >channel no matter what the OSD says. Did standard RCA tuner resolder to no >avail. Has anyone seen this before? >Dave > >------------------------------------------ >Help make your TechAssist database better! >Submit your fixes here: http://circuitwork.com/techassist/tip/#tips >------------------------------------------ >To UNSUBSCRIBE your email address, click here: >mailto:techassist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >Or send a BLANK email with unsubscribe in the >SUBJECT field to the address above. > G.N.Arrivas, CET, Pittsburg. 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