Maintenance and Troubleshooting
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The Home Electronics Handbook for Better Living by 3C Systems
Home Theater Maintenance
To maintain your home theater you need to:
Keep it clean and dust free.
Do Not unplug any wires or connections unless you know exactly what your doing.
Keep information packets about all components in your home theater close and at hand.
Clean any laser device, CD or LD or DVD player, with lenses cleaner whenever the
player skips constantly or after about 100 hours of use.
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Home Theater Troubleshooting:
If you have problems with your infrared signals follow these steps:
If it is with your remote and you have a plasma screen TV you need to get a plasma proof remote
control.
If you have infrared wiring
and a plasma screen TV then you need to change your wiring to regular wires or buy plasma
proof remote wiring. For any other problems
with your infrared signals call the installer of your
infrared devices
For any other problems with your home theater system call 3C Systems unless it
has to do with no sound from a source.
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Home Audio Maintenance:
1. Keep your Audio System clean and dust free to reduce interference by any foreign objects.
2. Label Audio lines for easy troubleshooting and keep wires from each source separate.
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Home Audio Troubleshooting:
If you have no sound from a source follow these step to solve it.
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Communication Maintenance:
Maintenance for home communications is:Keep cords out of reach of animals
and out of common paths.
Whenever installing new wires take caution not to cut pull or staple existing
wires.
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Communication Troubleshooting:
No dial tone in parts or whole house:
Steps for no dial tone in at an outlet or the entire house
This is the old style with the punched down Line In newer models have a normal
plug for the Line In
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