Just picked up a Panasonic PV-1730 Hi-Fi VCR

[djfivos]

The HR-D470 has a separate reel drive motor but it still uses an idler tire. There's no consumer JVC with direct drive take-up and supply "pancake motors" like the PV-1730 or SL-2700. Some Grundig European-market VHS VCRs from the mid 80s have a similar setup to the PV-1730, but those utilize the U-loading system like Betamax.

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by djfivos

The HR-D470 has a separate reel drive motor but it still uses an idler tire. There's no consumer JVC with direct drive take-up and supply "pancake motors" like the PV-1730 or SL-2700. Some Grundig European-market VHS VCRs from the mid 80s have a similar setup to the PV-1730, but those utilize the U-loading system like Betamax.

Yep!

I remember getting in those HR-D470s and the Zenith version too, where the backup supercap would leak and make a mess of things on the front timer board as I recall.

Some would need the star washer under a screw on the bottom deck board to ground. I installed that washer on every similar chassis JVC that came in with even the potential of needing that, just so it wouldn't come back on me.

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Yep!

I remember getting in those HR-D470s and the Zenith version too, where the backup supercap would leak and make a mess of things on the front timer board as I recall.

Some would need the star washer under a screw on the bottom deck board to ground. I installed that washer on every similar chassis JVC that came in with even the potential of needing that, just so it wouldn't come back on me.

The one I'm thinking of, that I have currently, is the Prosumer grade version of the HR-U8000 S-VHS VCR, of course maybe I was thinking of the HR-U8000 S-VHS unit when I was thinking of one of the JVC VCRs I had (which I've had several over the years including JVC made Zenith VCRs) that was all direct drive...

And Yes I have also had the HR-U8000 S-VHS VCR as well, (which I got from the High School I went to when they retired it.)
Actually I had two of them, I also got one from a garage sale one time as well, the one I got from the school had its original remote and the one I got from the garage sale didn't, the one I got from my high school when they retired it had long since died and been junked out (including the remote) by the time I found the one at the garage sale a few years later.

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

The one I'm thinking of, that I have currently, is the Prosumer grade version of the HR-U8000 S-VHS VCR, of course maybe I was thinking of the HR-U8000 S-VHS unit when I was thinking of one of the JVC VCRs I had (which I've had several over the years including JVC made Zenith VCRs) that was all direct drive...

And Yes I have also had the HR-U8000 S-VHS VCR as well, (which I got from the High School I went to when they retired it.)
Actually I had two of them, I also got one from a garage sale one time as well, the one I got from the school had its original remote and the one I got from the garage sale didn't, the one I got from my high school when they retired it had long since died and been junked out (including the remote) by the time I found the one at the garage sale a few years later.

That would be HR-S8000U...The one with the crappy switching mode power supply burns up in, melts the insulator sheet! Did not like it when I got assigned one to work on, at all! And no, not direct drive reels in that either.

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

That would be HR-S8000U...The one with the crappy switching mode power supply burns up in, melts the insulator sheet! Did not like it when I got assigned one to work on, at all! And no, not direct drive reels in that either.

Ok, I thought it did have them (I had opened it up only once when I had it and I saw several motors under there but didn't realize it wasn't direct drive all around).
Sorry for the confusion.
The unit I have now which I think is the sister to the wood-grained S-VHS unit I was talking about is the HR-D630U Hi-Fi VHS VCR from 1987.

[Ed in Tx]

HR-D630U not S-VHS, a higher end consumer model, with central reel motor and idler drive. Any others?

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

HR-D630U not S-VHS, a higher end consumer model, with central reel motor and idler drive. Any others?

I didn't say it was S-VHS, I said it was the regular Hi-Fi VHS version of the S-VHS unit that JVC made that year because it had the same style front end layout.