display panel, and in the viewfinder. The speaker and earphone also give audible warnings.

Problem

VTR action

Corrective action

Video head gap

After clogged head is detected, recording

Clean the heads. If recording is still

 

clogged or problem

continues but is substandard.

substandard, turn off the power and consult

 

in recording circuit

 

your Sony representative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Servo lock lost

Recording continues but is substandard.

Turn off the power and consult your Sony

 

 

 

representative. Note that this indication may

 

 

 

be given momentarily when the tape starts

 

 

 

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moving, but this does not indicate a problem.

 

 

 

 

CPU Interface error

VTR stops.

Turn off the power and consult your Sony

 

 

representative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Condensation on the

Recording continues but stops if the tape

Stop the tape and wait until the HUMID

 

head drum

sticks to the head drum. Playback, fast

indicator disappears.

 

 

forward, and rewind do not operate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tape cannot be

An error code appears in the time code

Remove the cassette by the method

 

wound properly.

display section of the display panel. Look

described in the Maintenance Manual.

 

 

up the error code in the Maintenance

Close the cassette lid without loading a

 

 

Manual.

cassette, turn off the power, and consult

 

 

 

your Sony representative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Near the end of tape

Operation continues.

Be prepared to change the cassette.

 

 

 

 

 

 

End of tape

Record, playback, and fast forward do not

Change the cassette or rewind the tape.

 

 

operate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Low battery

Operation continues.

Change the battery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dead battery

Operation stops.

Change the battery.

 

 

 

 

 

CPU Interface error

Recording continues, but some operations Turn off the power and consult your Sony

 

 

such as recording review and cueing do

representative.

 

 

not operate. If another problem also

 

 

 

 

occurs, its indication is given priority.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

c) Also, “5-0” appears for the tape remaining indication.

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d) During recoding or stop mode