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Originally Posted by ThePlague
Is it possible that without the counter belt attached, the system is not producing audio?
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I never say never as I've seen stuff in my 50 years in this business that would appear to make no sense.
Most of the time, a bad counter belt would cause (other than no counter movement) a shutdown in a few seconds as most of the counters had a hall effect sensor to inform the micro of tape movement, but of course, not all did.
Now, that machine looks suspiciously like the RCA convertible VFP series. We did have an audio problem with the RCA convertibles, and there are two tiny relays that can cause either noisy audio or no audio. I think they were identified as R400 or R1400 or so - maybe R1400 and R1401. See if there's any on the board marked something like that.
If that's your problem, there's a *small* chance I may have a couple in an RCA box.
John