SCT-54 (140-0673) Troubleshooting Faxback Doc. # 9923 The cassette deck should 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 Radio Shack store for assistance. Symptom Cause Remedy Power does not come on. The power cord is Plug in the unplugged. power cord.. The component to which Turn on the power cord is component. attached is turned off. The door does not open. The deck is not stopped. Press STOP. Power was turned off while Turn on the the tape was moving. power. The door does not close. The cassette is not Remove and properly loaded. reinsert the cassette. The tape immediately stops. The tape is at the end Play the of that side. other side of the tape or rewind. The tape has too Take up the much slack. slack. The level meter does not There is nothing recorded Replace the work during playback. on the tape. tape with one that has a recording. The tape heads are Clean the dirty. tape heads. There is no sound. The amplifier's input Set the selector is not amplifier's properly set. input selector to 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 problem. connections. The record indicator does The erase prevention Replace the not light when you try to tabs are broken off. tape with record. one with unbroken tabs, or cover the holes with tape. The level meter does not The REC LEVEL control is Turn up REC work during recording. set too low. LEVEL. The amplifier is not Correctly delivering a signal set the to the deck. amplifier's controls. There are connection Check all problems. connections. Nothing records onto the The tape heads are dirty. Clean the tape. tape heads. The sound is unstable or The heads, pinch rollers, Clean all interrupted. or capstans are dirty. tape handling parts. The tape is not uniformly Completely wound. rewind then fast forward the tape. High-frequency sounds A tape recorded without Correctly are missing. Dolby NR is being played set Dolby back with DOLBY NR set to NR. B or C. The tape heads are dirty. Clean the tape heads. High-frequency sounds A tape recorded with Dolby Set DOLBY NR are emphasized. NR is being played back to the same with DOLBY NR set to OUT. position as was used for recording. The sounds from previous The tape heads are Clean the recordings are still dirty. tape heads. on the tape with new recordings. The sounds is distorted. The recording level is Turn down too high. REC 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 being used. better- quality tape. There is a faulty Check all connection. connections. Recording level is not Correctly set correctly. set REC LEVEL for the best results. The tape heads are dirty. Clean the tape heads. ASMS does not operate Blanks between selections Use tapes properly. are less than 4 seconds with blanks long. of 4 seconds or more between selections. The system remote control The control cord is not Properly does not work. connected. connect the control cord. CD-deck synchro recording The CD-deck synchro control Properly does not work. cord is not connected. connect the control cord. The cassette tape's Replace the erase prevention tabs cassette are broken. with one with unbroken tabs or cover the holes with tape. The CD SYNCHRO is off The end of the tape was Replace the during CD Synchro reached during CD tape with a recording. Synchro recording. longer one. After the deck entered Change the the standby mode, more disc and than 1 minutes elapsed press CD before the CD player SYNCHRO resumed play. again. (LB/all-03/01/95)