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.
-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

