On 5/22/07, Paul Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bad electrolytic in the power supply?? That's typically the source of > motor-boating - the capacitor fails and the pulsating DC doesn't get > smoothed out. >
More than likely. But the supply is distributed throughought the circuit board with electrolytics sprinkled all over. I just have to take them all out and replace them. > -p > > Gonz wrote: > > Thats another even more common failure mechanism. I have a Sony tape > > deck that I really like and have master recordings that sound best on > > it (because the masters were made on it) > > that has an electrolytic cap problem. It "motor-boats", but the > > location is impossible to pin-point. > > > > > > On 5/22/07, Ralf R. Radermacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Why would the electronics die unless you dunked them in water? > >> I've just binned a Sony V6000 camcorder. About 12 years old, but hardly > >> used. Optically and mechanically like new. The problem: dozens of > >> leaking electrolytic capacitors. The phenomenon is known. Affects all > >> V5000 and V6000 sooner or later. Canon users report the same trouble > >> with their former top-of-line EX-1. > >> > >> My Philips FM1000 vhf transceiver doesn't let me program new receive > >> frequencies. Transmit yes, but not receive. Hasn't been dunked, either. > >> > >> Just two examples of electronics failing. > >> > >> Ralf > >> > >> -- > >> Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany > >> private homepage: http://www.fotoralf.de > >> manual cameras and photo galleries - updated Jan. 10, 2005 > >> Contarex - Kiev 60 - Horizon 202 - P6 mount lenses > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
