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

[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.

[Ed in Tx]

Never mind...! I am done.

BTW.. If you still have the HR-S8000 I would advise unplugging it when not in use or it might burn your house down! No thermal protection and fuses wouldn't blow either. ☺

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Never mind...! I am done.

BTW.. If you still have the HR-S8000 I would advise unplugging it when not in use or it might burn your house down! No thermal protection and fuses wouldn't blow either. ☺

Nope, fortunately I don't have either of them anymore as they both suffered the burned up power supply issue you mentioned, although at the time I didn't realize that's what happened with them...

I'm sorry I didn't mean to confuse you with the descriptions of the VCRs I had. I was just describing what I thought they looked like.

[vortalexfan]

I got my new (to me) analog ESR Meter today, installed some batteries and found some test leads for it (I had some spare test leads for it from an old $10 Harbor Freight DMM that died on me a couple of years ago) that worked with it perfectly and I tested those capacitors I mentioned that we figured out were part of the take-up and supply reel motor B+ lines and they all tested bad (they pegged out the ESR meter, at least I think so anyways if I'm reading it right, in reference to an ESR chart I downloaded from the internet.)

[vortalexfan]

Alright so I actually figured out that if the meter pegs out the capacitors are good. So I figured out that C6-C8 were the actual culprits, they actually suffered from the notorious Matshuista(sp?) green corosion/leakage issue and that's actually the first time I've ran into that so far.

But I know Shango and J. P. Dylan have both discussed it in their videos quite often so that's the only reason why I recognized it once I found them with my ESR Meter.

Now to gets some replacement capacitors and install them and put the VCR back together and I think I should finally have a functioning VCR again.

[vortalexfan]

Well another update on the VCR, I did manage to find some capacitors for the VCR in my capacitor stash, and installed them, and put the VCR back together and it is partially fixed, the VCR is now powering on all by itself now when you plug it into the wall, and the take-up reel spindle is now spinning at a much faster speed than it used to when it is doing the self-diagnostic check.

But its still not spinning up the supply reel spindle and the video head drum isn't spinning up either in the self-diagnostic check, so I wonder if there's some more capacitors on another board that's involved with the loading/playback mechanism?

Also I noticed that when the VCR attempts to power up the display screen shows "camera" on the readout which I'm not sure if that's normal or not but I'm wondering if that's maybe something that might be something to do with what's going on with the VCR and why its acting up?

[djfivos]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

Also I noticed that when the VCR attempts to power up the display screen shows "camera" on the readout which I'm not sure if that's normal or not but I'm wondering if that's maybe something that might be something to do with what's going on with the VCR and why its acting up?

Is the input selector switch set to camera?