SCT-55 (140-0674) Troubleshooting Faxback Doc. # 9909 The cassette deck should give you years give you years of trouble-free service if you follow the instructions in this manual. If you do have problems, the chart below can help you solve them. If you still have problems after following the suggestions below, take the cassette deck to your local Radio Shack store for assistance. Symptom Cause Remedy Power does not come on. The power cord is Plug in the power unplugged. cord. The component to which Turn on the power cord is component. attached is turned off. The door does not The deck is not Press STOP. open. stopped. Power was turned off Turn on the while the tape was Power. moving. The door does not close. The cassette is not Remove and properly loaded. reinsert the cassette. The tape immediately The tape is at the end of Play the other stops. that side. side of the tape or rewind the tape. The tape has too much Take you the slack. slack. The level meter does not There is nothing recorded Replace the tape work during playback. on the tape. with one that has a recording. The tape heads are dirty. Clean the tape heads. There is no sound. The amplifier's input Set the amplifier's selector is not properly input selector to set. the same input you connected the deck to. The amplifier's volume Turn up the is too low. amplifier's volume. There are connection Check all problems. connections. The record indicator The erase prevention Replace the tape does not light when tabs are broken. with one with you try to record. off. unbroken tabs, or cover the holes with tape. The level meter does not The REC LEVEL control Turn up REC LEVEL. work during recording. is set too low. The amplifier is not Correctly set the delivering a signal to amplifier's the deck. controls. There are connection Check all problems. connections. Nothing records The tape heads are Clean the tape onto the tape. dirty. heads. The sound is unstable or The heads, pinch rollers, Clean all tape interrupted. or capstans are dirty. handling parts. The tape is not uniformly Completely rewind wound. then fast forward the tape. High-frequency sounds A tape recorded without Correctly set are missing. Dolby NR is being played DOLBY NR. back with DOLBY NR set to B or C. The tape heads are dirty. Clean the tape handling parts. High-frequency sounds A tape recorded with Set DOLBY NR to the are emphasized. Dolby NR is being played same position as back with DOLBY NR set was used for to OUT. recording. The sounds from previous The tape heads are dirty. Clean the tape recordings are still on heads. the new recordings. The sound is distorted. The recording level is Turn down REC too high. LEVEL. The original signal was Replace the distorted. original recording source. The heads are dirty. Clean the tape heads. There is too much noise. Poor-quality tape is Use a better- being used. quality tape. There is a faulty Check all connection. connections. Recording level is too Turn up REC LEVEL. low. The tape heads are Clean the tape dirty. heads. ASMS does not operate Blanks between selections Use tapes with properly. are less than 4 seconds blanks of 4 seconds long. or more between selections. The system remote The control cord is not Properly connect control does not connected. the control cord. work. CD-deck synchro The CD-deck synchro Properly connect recording does not work. control cord is not the control cord. connected. The cassette tape's erase Replace the prevention tabs are cassette with one broken. with unbroken tabs or cover the holes with tape. The CD SYNCHRO is The end of the tape was Replace the tape off during CD reached during CD with a longer one. Synchro recording. Synchro recording. After the deck entered Change the disc and the standby mode, more press CD SYNCHRO than 1 minute elapsed again. before the CD player resumed play. (LB/all-03/01/95)