Hy,
I know that forum is about audio, but I know that there is people with such knowledge that were in this waters before me.
I am trying to repair my grandfathers vhs camera (JVC GR60E) as it means alot to him.
Camera died about 15 years ago. Last time he was filming footage started loosing colors and audio, next time he tryed to turn it on it was dead.
Were there any common faults with cameras of this era apart of capacitors?
When I hold the power button I can hear beeper beeping lets say twice a second, at the same time I can hear something clicking in the lense (motor trying to move I guess) and I can see current rising to about 400mA and falling to zero. I can also see crt in viewfinder is taking a bit of charge as it is getting brighter if I hold power button for some time.
I disassembeled the camera and I'm left with main board connected to power and small pcb with buttons and buzzer.
2 capacitors were leaky and had cold solder joints. I had replaced all electrolytic capacitors on the main board, buzzer got bit louder, but thats it.
Dc in is 9.6v, when I hold power button it drops to 9.5v (checked on multiple places on the board). I had also find 5v on the board. This is my concern, if I hold power button that 5v slowly drops to 3v.
There are few ICs on the board, but I cant find datasheets anywhere.
I will take and post some pictures when I get home.
Any Ideas?
Thank you
I know that forum is about audio, but I know that there is people with such knowledge that were in this waters before me.
I am trying to repair my grandfathers vhs camera (JVC GR60E) as it means alot to him.
Camera died about 15 years ago. Last time he was filming footage started loosing colors and audio, next time he tryed to turn it on it was dead.
Were there any common faults with cameras of this era apart of capacitors?
When I hold the power button I can hear beeper beeping lets say twice a second, at the same time I can hear something clicking in the lense (motor trying to move I guess) and I can see current rising to about 400mA and falling to zero. I can also see crt in viewfinder is taking a bit of charge as it is getting brighter if I hold power button for some time.
I disassembeled the camera and I'm left with main board connected to power and small pcb with buttons and buzzer.
2 capacitors were leaky and had cold solder joints. I had replaced all electrolytic capacitors on the main board, buzzer got bit louder, but thats it.
Dc in is 9.6v, when I hold power button it drops to 9.5v (checked on multiple places on the board). I had also find 5v on the board. This is my concern, if I hold power button that 5v slowly drops to 3v.
There are few ICs on the board, but I cant find datasheets anywhere.
I will take and post some pictures when I get home.
Any Ideas?
Thank you
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