T-View 100¶

T-View 100 is a video telephone made by Deutsche Telekom / Siemens.

Common faults¶

- Faulty display hotbar
Symptoms: Missing rows / columns on the (24x2) character LCD.

- Faulty capacitors
Symptoms: Crashing, low display contrast, flickering LEDs, poor video quality, mains hum on the speakers

Disassembly¶

The bottom cover plate has 6 screws and is clipped together at the bottom. Use multiple guitar picks to get them free.
The plastic does not seem to be brittle (yet), some force is OK.

Backside of the main video / interfacing PCB is visible under the cover plate:

Lift the video / interfacing PCB out by pulling it up, it's