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Originally Posted by Adam

Zenith JR9000 Beta VCR - working mechanically, also trouble with color

Adam, I recently fixed color on my 2 JR9000 decks. This video helped me greatly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z6XYJrT3NI

One thing he doesn't explain is you also want to adjust the playback video amps (the pots were labeled 1H and 2H PB level) on the YC-L board under the playback mech. You want to connect the RF out of the deck to a TV to do this instead of using video out (the monitor I was using wouldn't show the issue on the video input). Basically you want to use the decks tuner to see what normal video level should be (brightness wise) then hit play and adjust 1H and 2H to take the excessively dark video, that you'll probably find you have, and return it to a normal brightness level comperable to what the decks tuner gets.

IIRC I bought a Zenith SVHS deck off of you...The same VCR repair kick I recently was on that fixed the Beta decks also fixed that SVHS (though I had to part out a working Zenith VHS-HiFi deck with the same mech to that).