Maintenance and

Chapter 8

Troubleshooting

Regular Checks

Use the digital horurs meter as guidelines for scheduling maintenance.

Digital hours meter

The digital hours meter keeps cumulative counts of the total operating time, the head drum rotation time, the tape transport operating time, and the number of threading/ unthreading operations. These counts can be displayed on the monitor screen and in the time counter display of this unit.

In general, consult your Sony dealer about necessary periodic maintenance checks.

Digital hours meter display modes

The digital hours meter has the three display modes.

•T1 (OPERATION) mode

The cumulative total hours during which the unit is powered on is displayed in 10-hour increments.

•T2 (PLAYING) mode

The cumulative total hours of disk operation for fast forward, reverse fast forward, playback, and search (except in still search mode) is displayed in 10-hour increments.

•T3 (RECORDING) mode

The cumulative total hours of disk operation for recording is displayed in 10-hour increments.

For the T2 mode and T3 mode, there are two types of count: a “trip” count, which is resettable, and the cumulative total from manufacture, which is unresettable.

Displaying the digital hours meter

Use the following procedure.

1 Press the MENU button in the menu control section.

The menu selection level display appears on the monitor screen and in the time counter display.

Menu selection level display

SYSTEM MENU

 

Setup menu

 

 

SETUP MENU

 

TC PRESET

 

Time counter display

DISK MENU

 

 

 

NETWORK MENU

 

 

DATE/TIME PRESET

 

 

HOURS METER

 

 

 

 

 

Monitor screen

2 Press the j button to select “HOURS METER.”

SYSTEM MENU

 

Hours meter

SETUP MENU

 

TC PRESET

 

Time counter display

DISK MENU

 

 

 

NETWORK MENU

 

 

DATE/TIME PRESET

 

 

 

 

 

HOURS METER

 

 

 

 

 

Monitor screen

3 Press the k (OUT) button.

The cumulative counts by the digital hours meter are indicated on the monitor screen and in the time counter display.

Digital hours meter indications on the monitor screen

The three counts (T1, T2 and T3) are indicated on the monitor screen.

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