One of three TV's not working as it should...

[fansill]

Hello All,

We just came back from our first outing in our new to us 2005 Fleetwood Revolution. It has the three original Panasonic TV's and they all work, but not the same way...

The campground that we camped at this weekend had cable hookups...no problem hooking up. The three TV's are all 26/27 inch and all use the same remote controls. The living room TV was fine, we were able to use the remote to power on and off, volume up and down, choose a specific channel, and we got all 50 or so channels offered by the campground. Ditto on the outside TV. The bedroom TV was a whole different animal. We could use the remote to power on and off, volume up and down, and we could select a channel such as wanting channel 5...we would key in the 0 key and then the 5 key... We could not channel surf by using the channel up and down buttons and we only got about 7 channels in all. I tried to use the buttons on the TV to channel up and down...that did not work either. I tried swapping the various remotes around and none of them improved our operation of the bedroom TV.

Does anyone have any helpful hints to make the bedroom TV work as well as the other two???

Thanks in advance.

Faith

[RonK]

Faith:
If you got the other 2 TVs working properly I would assume you also configured the bedroom TV for cable, as opposed to "air" and then did a scan for channels. Do you have a push button panel to select an input for the various TVs or do they select the various inputs via the TV menus?
Ron

[wa8yxm]

So the bedroom did not respond properly to the remote.. I see 3 possible situtations, One is a very very dirty IR sensor on the tv.. Frankly. NOt high on my suspect list.

One is a florescent lamp in the bedroom, or perhps an LED bulb that is high in the I-R spectrum.. I've seen Florescents knock my I-R remotes for a loop

The final answer is a broken TV

[paz]

Hi Faith,

Are the TVs or LCDs or the older picture tube type? For our Panasonic LCDs, you can go into setup and set it to channel surf on digital only, analog only, all, or favorites. If you have something similar, the previous owner may have set it to favorites or digital only.

If you have picture tube TVs, they won't be digital, but you may have a setting to surf on all or favorites.

[Izzyblueye]

My first suggestion would be to have the bedroom TV scan all the channels, I have had this happen when switching from regular antenna to cable. Like the O/P said be sure you are configured correctly for cable.

[hamguy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by wa8yxm So the bedroom did not respond properly to the remote.. I see 3 possible situtations, One is a very very dirty IR sensor on the tv.. Frankly. NOt high on my suspect list. One is a florescent lamp in the bedroom, or perhps an LED bulb that is high in the I-R spectrum.. I've seen Florescents knock my I-R remotes for a loop The final answer is a broken TV

Since all TV sets are the same they should go into the setup menu to the selections and make the BR set the same setup as the others. I suspect that the BR has been set to scan for channels somewhere and only found a few. Now they need to set it to scan for the new location.

[wa8yxm]

There is also the posibility the channel up/down buttons on that remote are wore out (Try other remotes on the TV to check that)

The suggestion that the TV has not scanned all the channels was addressed by the original poster, He said they can enter 0-5 and it will go to channel 5

But Chan Up/Down do not work

This means though that may be A problem, it's not THE problem

[fansill]

Thank you all for your suggestions to help with this problem... We are camping again this weekend and parts of the problem has been fixed. I was able to go to a set-up menu on the one problem TV and once I got a picture on a particular channel, I told the TV to recognize it and add it to the menu. Now I can use the channel "up/down" button to reach those channels. For some reason though, it only recognizes a fraction of the channels that the other TV's get. For example, the salon tv and the outside tv gets channels 2-68 at this campground via a cable tv hook-up. The bedroom tv gets channels 2-18 and then only snow on any other channels.

I will keep playing with it...

Faith

PS. I think that anything more than 2 channels is too many, but hubby has to spend a lot of time in bed recovering from recent surgeries, so he would really like a few more options. I am trying to make him comfortable because he was loving enough to buy this new coach for me and is attempting to "camp" in it, even when he is not feeling the best.

[wa8yxm]

You have either a bad coax or a bad splitter..

The splitter: If you have the standard winegard wall plate with the 12 volt outlet, the button or switch, the LED and the antenna connection then that is both the power supply for the antenna's built in pre-amp, the ANT/CABLE switch **AND*** the splitter

If you have a box with many buttons.. THAT is all of the above as well.

My best guess is bad coax

Identify the two ends of the coax.. Build a shorting device.

(A short piece of coax, you may also need a barrel (Double female) connector. Bend the center pin on this short piece so it is in hard contact with the threads)

Now measure resistance center to nut on the other end. Should be low, perhaps 1 ohm or less, Without the shorting device it should read open.

If you do not see that, then there is either a 2nd splitter in line, or there is another issue.

[traveldawg]

I doubt the coax is bad. And I wouldn't suspect the splitter. Although both should still be tested.

If you have a switch box in the front to direct different TV sources to different TVs I'd suspect that.

Check all the connections. To see if you can resolve the marginal signal to the rear TV.

As for having to manually add channels before you can use the up/down on the TV or remote: you may want to see if there is a reset on one of the menus for your TV; if there is, reset the TV and rescan. There is no reason to have to add the channels manually unless someone previously "deleted" them.