Does anyone know about this VHS VCR?

[waltchan]

Originally Posted by tvcollector

I took apart the VCR again to find the surface mounts.. I didn't see any, and also having trouble locating the video board.. I did a thorough look on what i can see on the whole main board and the small boards attached to it, still cant see any surface mounts. There's a couple of servo sections, audio section, sap, and others, but nothing labeled video. There's also a few circuits that are in metal housings like the tuner circuit. I didn't bother to look through those, as i would need to unsolder them and pry them open, and also didn't want to go into something unnecessary..

There are indeed surface-mount caps on the video board, and they are hidden underneath the main board. You will need to remove the four bone-color hooks to free the video board from the main board, and flip it over.

I'm servicing a Panasonic PV-S4880 right now, which is the clone-model to your Philips, and it needs a power supply rebuilt, a servo board caps rebuilt, and video board SMD caps rebuilt. Not a smart design at all by PanaJunk.

This is what the video board looks like with the surface-mount caps on the hybrid IC board. Replace all 8, which I already ordered from Mouser for myself, and you will have video again.