I’m so good I found this video. There is not a lot of info/videos on this exact model camera. You’re a lifesaver

@c0rvu5albu55

2 ай бұрын

on any camcorder. Have a Sony V30 and a stuck tape in the compartment and it doesnt open, cant find a guide to take it out for the life of me.

Thanks a lot Dave for making this video, I appreciate it, this will surely help me moving forward. I want to learn as much as I can about these camcorders.

Thank you for your videos i was able to repair my camera after two repair shop have stressed me out and telling my cassette have molds and are not recoverable. I have watched most of your video and i repair both camera showing blue image only and cassette it take almost a week but finaly worth every minute i spent repairing, waching your video as a guide. Thank you.

Enjoy the story telling a lot better than just watching screws being manipulated with dead air in the background. I had my grandpa and his TV shop to learn from, that is what got me started. Got an all tube 23" GE color TV still sitting downstairs in my parents basement, it is a KE chassis if that means anything. I replaced the flyback in that one in 1972 when I was still in high school, my first major repair on my own.

Nice work and enjoyed the story here in Timmins, Ontario it is - 16 degrees celcius feels like - 26

Nice to hear how you got started in the business. Learning a trade is different now, people watch a few videos and now they are a repair tech!

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the hundreds of hours if formal training i got once I actually got into the business. Sony first with the betamax course and then constant refresher courses that i did every few months right up till 2002 just before I quit.

Nice technical stories. I imagine the frustration you had when you got fired because you do what was supposed a technician should do. Lots of people in management positions have bad attitudes. It's like the army, but with coccaine. We gonna fire all of them, as time passes, less people watches their content on broadcast. Yours is more interesting and educational. Thanks for sharing!

This a very good video on fixing common problem with Sony camcorder tape door not closing. There is always some kind of switch that activate the motorized mechanism to load the tape, but it is not easily found. I have a similar problem with one of my vintage Sony 8mm camcorder and the door would close but it would reopen back up again without retracting the tape loader. I think it could be similar switch problem like this camcorder. It is also an interesting life story on how you got into this business in the first place. I do have a couple of questions for you since you used to be the VCR repairman. I have a Sony VHS tape player and it would turn on but when I press play, it does make some noise and stay on but displaying error code E3 01 05. I have not taken it apart but I suspect that the tape transport stop working, probably a bad belt but not sure. I hope you can give me some hint on where to look. The other question I have it if you can show how to align the tape transport adjustment so the VCR does not eat the edge of the tape, that would be great.

Thanks for the repair video and interesting stories. I have a question regarding Mini-DV mechanisms. Did some camcorder manufacturers design and make their own or did they all use the Sony ones?

i have sony dcr trv340e. It was not closing the compartment when loaded with cassettes(c3140), as you told i cleaned the connections now it works.thank you

Well done, the owner would be chuffed with the camcorder :-D I imagine that bill was very happy with your repairs, yes it did sound like he was testing you :-D He must have been a decent enough boss as you were there for a hell of a long time. You were a fresh/sharp and logical person, i bet you repaired a hell of a lot of devices in that place. I wonder if the beckman had the odd A to D chip that was not soldered to the board, it was pressed down on to the pcb via a frame. (crappy way). I'm supprised they worked at all!. That would have been an expensive tool in it's day.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Good boss? Hahahahahahaha. Hahahahahaha hahahahahaha! I will say no comment on that one. It was a toxic work environment. The only reason I put up with the crap as long as I did was because i was paid well compared to what other shops were offering. (I did look around and the best offer on the table was about 26,000 less a year and i would have had a 2 hour commute every day.) So I put up with the bullshit for years till one day i didn't put up with it and walked. 20 years and i got 0 severence. Constructive dismissal is what they call it. Owner made it so toxic that I left. He wouldn't fire me but he put me on piecework and then started sending everything out so that there would be no work and i was sitting around with nothing to do. Told me to my face that he was going to starve me into quitting and that is what he did.

@zx8401ztv

3 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Bloody hell, you did stick it for a long time. One job i was in made me mentally ill after 5 years, i was the electronic repair section of the company. I never thought a boss and the stress he created could get to me, i was wrong.

Sony camcorder edge connectors do seem to be very unreliable. One video head out is a common symptom, also erroneous Dew sensor errors.

For me the big issue with these is that all of the ones after around the year 2000 have really low pixel count CCDs, lower even than the resolution of an SD frame. As far as I can tell the last one with a good CCD in the consumer Hi-8 line is the CCD-TRV87E here in Europe, but the CCD-TRV87 (NTSC version) has a CCD with quite a bit less pixels.

Hi, Great videos. I have a question regarding Sony TRV108. Have you ever encountered a transport door that latches but only descends halfway then stops mid operation? No error codes. Thanks

Not necessarily for Perverts....high demand for the older cams with this feature for many UFO hunters . Penetrating clouds is a must.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

They advertised it as a "see through" filter. They still sell them. Check out the site. www.kaya-optics.com/

Excellent job, they are so intricate. #StaySafe

Excellent instruction and very entertaining

During the bonus lecture about perving with Sony tech, I (perhaps temporarily remedied) mine by some combination of battery pull, unplug, switch on/off, look inside, blow, etc.

Thanks for the video! I followed along but my tape compartment still won't go down into the camera. The door closes, but the compartment won't budge. Any idea of what I can try? Do you have a video for that issue? Thanks so much!

I like that somewhat sparky opening screen.

Hi Dave, this was my camera you fixed....thanks. I was wondering do you know what the glue is called that glues the little tabs back onto the ribbon cables so you can push the cable end into the connector slot? I need some. thanks, kent

I have the PAL version of this camera: the CCD-TRV238 and it is a great camera, still works fine after heavy use. One interesting thing is that Iv'e never encountered a sticky tape, I think it is climate related problem, as non of my audio cassettes, Betamax or VHS tapes shows this problem.

The other annoyance with this type of door setup is that you can't see where the tape is physically at.

Hi @12voltvids, Have you worked on similar issues with MiniDV- and MicroMV cameras from Sony? I have a couple of each with the same issue. Is the mechanism basically the same but just shrunk down? So far I´ve been using a trick I found online by applying power directly to the motor, but it´s just an emergency solution for getting the mechanism to close so you can put it away, not something you can put to daily use.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Yep I had the same problem with my hdv camera and had to clean that same switch I'm sure the micro MV has the same type of switch that detects when the cassette mechanism is ready to load.

Thanks for this one. I"ll give it a go on my Sony D8 which has the same problem.

coming across similar issues with a trv-318, is there an easy way to speak to you one on one if you do that sort of thing?

Please provide the link to the special camera video :)

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I don't remember the title of it and have been unable to find it. I put it up about 5 years ago.

I watched since I do my own repair work and I have a TRV-43, a top loader. I was rather disappointed to see that the TRV-138 used a different loading mechanism, therefore not relevant to my needs. I am really surprised that you were in the consumer electronics repair business that long. With the change from vacuum tubes to solid state in the 1960s, the writing was on the wall. In Southern California at that time with only 500 televisions per repair shop, it was already time to look for a more profitable business. Every grocery and drug store had installed tube checkers, further diminishing the number of available repair jobs. Television had taken over, and there was less demand for radio repair. Reliability improved when you no longer had to deal with burned out, or worn out tubes. As time went on, the amount the customer had to pay in order for the repair shop to make money went up so much that electronic equipment was cheaper to replace than repair.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

It was a well paying job untill around 2002, that year things changed and by 2003 it was time to move on. When the average wage was 40,000 a year here i was pulling in about 70,000 which incidentally is about what a journeyman electrician makes today. I made good money in the repair business and that is why i did it for 20 years. When the bottom fell out i was the first to get out.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

The 43 uses the A mechanism, and I do have videos relating to that chassis. This one used the B mechanism.

I have the same problem but with a ccd-trv58, can you help?

I have a problem with the Sony CCD-TRV238E camera. Could you help me fix it

My brother brought home some non-working smaller guitar and bass amps. The bass one is an Ibanez, 35w. Speaker and cable to it test ok. Unit powers on, but at full wide open volume/gain and in any postions too, there is not a peep of any type of sound to the speaker. Not noise. Not signal. Literally as if not attached at all. Is going straight to the IC 3 leg components attached to heat sink to resolder a good idea? I guess what I am asking, is it possible or even probable that this is the culprit? Anything else stands out that might do this? I like your stories about getting into the business etc.. heh heh.

@MrChrisRP

3 жыл бұрын

I figured out that definitely without doubt that some component is shorted that should not be. Internally, there is a fuse. It was blown at initial inspection (meaning, I got it like this.) When I jumped it and powered on, it blew the main fuse in the 120v socket itself. I tested many resistors and they are all fine so far. The components and board seem pristine other than the problem. I am thinking it is one of the IC chips just on the board (no heat sink.) There are 3 of them. Visually, everything is perfect. I even used magnifying glass and resoldered the 2 points that I thought MAYBE suspect. I did not create a short. :) So, I dunno. haha

@MrChrisRP

3 жыл бұрын

I found a diode that passed electricity in both directions. There are about 15 of them on the board. One of them is faulty. It is not part of the bridge rectifier (obviously, as per my first comment.) When up to it, I will take one from a donor board I have kept just for this purpose. Then, I have to get some fuses too. So, we shall see.

Dirty trick with the cable wiring, what was the point, just to get an high price for their cables?

thx for the backstory - I was a Commercial Electronics prosumer 80-90's

I have a Sony CCD-TRV48E and everything is fully working except the power zoom randomly stopped working recently while I was using it - it still zooms, just takes maybe 40-50 seconds to fully zoom instead of 5-10. Any ideas on what the issue may be and how to go about a repair on it? Cheers!

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Some have a drive belt. Could be the feedback resistor is bad.

God I have like 70 Handycams. Most of them work just fine, every once in awhile I bump into this problem, such as the IP5 I got the other day. Came with a tape stuck in it which is cool because I didn't have a MMV tape for my other one. But now it won't close. At least got one working one, and will keep it for myself. I need to get around to selling all my Hi8 ones though. What amazes me is how reliable Handycams are to this day, yet any Video8 or Hi8 VCR that Sony made in the 90's has bad caps and you have about a 90% chance of them not working.

My trv-138 has an issue where I get a warning message saying the tape is locked however the tape is not locked and I’m not able to record. Any ideas as to why?

what usb did you use to charge?

i have had a similar sony camcorder, but that one lifts the compartment up and opens to the side. So no problems with tripods.

I have the exact camera and the cassette part is stuck open, the metal cage won’t go in or open. Can I send to you for a repair?

I’m having trouble with the same camera but it doesn’t close the tape deck only when a cassette is in there. If there’s no cassette it closes fine. I was trying to look at my old tapes and now I don’t know what to do

We have this model and it will only play for a few seconds before telling us to reinsert cassette. Do you have a video on how to fix this?

Sony seemed like they had to keep their cables proprietary to them. I remember having to modify the pinouts on VGA cables so they would work on the Sony Trinitron 13" computer monitors which were superior to the NEC dot matrix monitors at that time. Used to get a lot of used computer gear on the cheap to play with from the Boeing surplus store here in the Seattle area in Kent WA.

@enzoperruccio

3 жыл бұрын

Sony always loved making their own proprietary stuff. It was fine back in the day, but now that you can't buy those certain things from them it gets frustrating.

my issue is not that little switch, its when i put in a tape, it flat out refuses to retract, otherwise it retracts all the time. i have pressed that little switch by hand and it does its job perfectly, but putting in a tape the thing spins the head, makes this other sound like something is trying to spin but cant, very faint, and nothing happens

Can this P2 rca jack give the full resolution of the tape for recording the tapes on the pc?

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@gabrielv.4358

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Ok, thank you. Some people said it would cut down the quality. Nice to know it doesn't

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielv.4358 standard 8mm doesn't benefit from svideo plug. If it's hi8 then the svideo connector is slightly better.

@gabrielv.4358

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Ah, ok 👍

I've been trying to find the charger for this for a long time. does anyone know where I can find one? really what kind of charger does it need?

I have a TRV14E and the cassette holder doesn't pop-up when it's opened. It just ejects and then automatically retracts.

I have the same model but mine has the opposite issue, the compartment wont come up all the way and open. Any way you could help?

@12voltvids

5 ай бұрын

I could probably fix it depending on the problem

Hey it doesn't have a photo button that's not to be used for animation.

Wondering if you've dealt with. Sony TRV15. I just took mine out of storage and the door will close and go down but comes right back up again, so odd. Thanks.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

Does it do it with no tape or only with a tape?

@Paula-ok9ib

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids tape or no tape. First it got stuck kind of half way. I unplugged the charger and it opened up but now it just keeps coming back up to open. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

@@Paula-ok9ib So something in the mechanism is jamming.

@Paula-ok9ib

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids that makes sense. It's in perfect condition, hopefully I will get it going. Thank you ✌️

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

@@Paula-ok9ib it's not in perfect condition. It will be full of leaking capacitors that will have leaked into the board corroding the copper traces. That's what happens to all of them. If it's in good cosmetic condition it is a display piece. These old cameras are never worth fixing. Anyone that claims that can fix it are just taking your money as all fixes are short term and i am talking days or weeks. They never last. I know someone that I told them was not worth fixing and they found soneone that claimed they would rebuild it for 400.00 he spent the money it operated for exactly 5 hours before acting up again he shipped it back and the guy wanted more money. With the shipping about 100 each way he has 800 into a camera that is worth nothing. All i could say was told you so and that is why i refused to work on it.

I have a camera from 2005 it works alright but I accidentally broke a zoom lever with my foot I had to glue it back on and surprisingly it still fuctions. The other one was disfuctioning so the trick I did was put my thumb on the switch firmly just to get it functioning. Digital8s built in 2005 are the best to use than 1999 Digital8s.

Can you please tell our sony handy cam dcr tvr285E the does not work how to fix it please reply me soon

What charger do you use to charge it

@12voltvids

2 жыл бұрын

The correct one!

Hello, I have a CCD-TRV58E camera that mechanism (Type B) will load by itself ok when empty but will not load when a tape is inside. You can push the tape but then the mechanism does not retract and most of the time the tape does not stick it pop up. anything I can check for that problem ? I dont see any damages on loading mechanism. Thx in advance and keep the good work sir ! ;)

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

Edge connectors where the chassis connects to the board. It's the one for the drum motor.

@doyouwtech9012

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Thx so much for fast answer but I think I explain myself badly, I'll make a small video showing what it is realy happening. thx again sir ;)

Hii When I open camera it shows green and black display?

@nishukaushal4940

Жыл бұрын

What is the reason?

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

@@nishukaushal4940 it's broken

hello sir i have this one as a gift along with a 12 recording tapes pack in 2005 i recorded many videos on it occasionaly but after mobile camera usage camcoder use is bit burden so i left it in a bag in store for a very long time. in shifting of house i lost the recorded cds of our beautiful memories so i thought i should use it again to copy data in other usbs or drive but when i connected it with led its screws gives slight current i unplug it and after an hour or two i reconnect it this time it worked well but initially the battery and play button create some issue but the video start playing well afterward i 4wd the video while playing it and cried alot as some of my dear ones in this video are no more they passed away from this world.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 so by little 4warding while playing video i watch the full video i was bit emotional at that time so i off this device and placed it back in the bag now after 3 days i open it when i play the recorded video it shows 3 gray lines or straight bands on recorded videos on its display screwn even on the one video which was ok as i have checked it while 4wding it as it was on play option. Can you tell me why i am getting these three bands on screen God forbid is the footage sopiled or handycam has some problem. I am eager to save my memories with the family members especially with my late parents but this situation is very devastating for me can you please guide why this is happening and if there is some issue how can i fix it. Your reply will be appreciated.Thanks in advance.

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

Have you tried cleaning the heads with a cleaning tape.

@qahaf7864

Жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids @12voltvids Yes tried the cleaning tape i had previously but it didnt work cant find the new one as this model is old and availabilty is rare other than this i dnt have any idea about it and dnt know how to do it some other way?

My thing is that it does not open, is it possible to fix that?

@12voltvids

2 жыл бұрын

Well it depends on what is wrong.

@Angel-or3mn

2 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids I’ll mess around a little yo se if I can take it apart, is fully functional but the little thing you switch to open it is like stuck, got it for 10$

That story at the TV station would not have happened in the UK... I am aware of at least one strike, that took one of the ITV companies off the air completely in the early '80s for a day for a very similar story of a wet-behind-the-ears tech who fixed a telecine machine without authorisation, and was reprimanded - not fired - by management. The union went nuts. It was ironic as it was a union rule that prevented the guy from doing this in the first place. The ITV regions weren't small companies either - this one had a turnover of £50m at the time.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

That wouldn't have happened at any of our unionized broadcast stations either however I was working for a non-union community cable station. It's funny because the cable installer guys were IBEW, but the office staff and the community tv side was non-union and mostly volunteer. There were 4 staffers and the rest were volunteers. The engineers were actually part of the commercial production side of the business which was a completely different company owned by the same owners and shared the same studio space as a community TV side. It was a family-run business and just like the TV shop that I worked at for 20 years family run businesses a lot of times been the rules a little.

this must have been sony's latest hi8 model if i'm not mistaken with good capacitors

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Yes this was right at the end of the analog cameras and the capacitor problem had been resolved by this point. It was really bad on the mid 80s and into early 90s. This one would have been around 2005 I think. They could still fail for sure but they weren't a problem like the old ones.

@amatorev

3 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids you are right, I have a camcorder since 1994 is the Sony ccd fx270e which is 27 years old and yet works flawlessly to date without capacitor problems

Do you repair cassette decks?

@12voltvids

2 жыл бұрын

Last time i checked i did.

@dissanayakevidura

2 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Thanks for your reply, but do you repair any cassette decks these days because I have a couple that need to be repaired.

@12voltvids

2 жыл бұрын

@@dissanayakevidura I fix plenty of cassette decks these days. Parts availability is an issue.

@dissanayakevidura

2 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Well, I have Sony, Scott, and Denon decks, but after watching some of your videos, I am positive that you know your stuff. Anyway, if you are interested in repairing them, I can send you the model numbers and videos of them for you to have an idea of the issues of each. I would very much appreciate it if you could repair these because in my country, there are hardly any people who repair cassette decks these days.

could someone tell me, button by button, how to watch tapes on this camera I don't understand English audios, I write this by the translator would be grateful forever thanks

What if my camcorder screen is white

Hi, do you accept repair requests?

@12voltvids

28 күн бұрын

Yes

@bricejamesfilms

28 күн бұрын

@@12voltvids what is your email ?

@bricejamesfilms

26 күн бұрын

@@12voltvids what’s your email?

@12voltvids

26 күн бұрын

It's on the main page

And it doesn't have a firewire output either like a video8 would.

@12voltvids

3 ай бұрын

Video 8 doesn't have firewire. Nor does hi8. Digital 8 does however as it's a digital camera. Some digital 8 camera will play analog tapes and others won't.

@TheNewStoryteller

3 ай бұрын

@@12voltvids I've been looking at the other Digital8 Camera online to see what I wanted plus one from 2000 yet the shape still looks 1999ish. When you mention others won't I think it's the tapes that are dirty, glitchy, and when you capture the quality of ones voice you'd edit. The sad thing with MiniDVs from 2006 they are botchy.

@12voltvids

3 ай бұрын

How are they botchy

@TheNewStoryteller

3 ай бұрын

@@12voltvids The way a mini DV camera was built I didn't like it so a 2008 one was the best in making films but the catch can come again you sometimes need a tape that can clean the heads instead of using a bottle of liquid to do it, if you ever find a 2008 Minidv Camera that has an output at the back instead of a 2006 one check before you buy it but for you as an expert of restoring the cameras you'd be making a broken collection to a restored collection.

@TheNewStoryteller

3 ай бұрын

@@12voltvids When a MiniDV camera is begining to breakdown I'd find another one, when you have one that does the same you try restoring it.

This looks an awful lot like my DCR-TRV260 Digital8 camera. Must be the same basic chassis.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Very similar chassis. Will be working on another one tomorrow.

@VSigma725

3 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids I haven't used the TRV-260 too often but it certainly worked fine last time, which makes me think it was maintained by someone like yourself during its past life.

I'm sorry to say that, that's hilarious how Sony copied JVC's, Hitachi's, or Canon's design and make the cheap design in 2005. I was like, "oh no! HEHAHAHAHA! XD What a joke. Sony could at leased go back to their original design of the top loading mechanism instead of the below the surface of the camcorder.

Agree Horrible design for loading the media!....should pivot from bottom and load from top. bottom to remain flat.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it was stupid. Engineer must have been high when he designed that one.

@Sans_Solo_

3 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Well if he were high then it would load from side....pivot from front.....think they thought it would save maintenance cost if loaded from bottom- less debris would get in mechanism?

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sans_Solo_ They did that too in older models. Best ones loaded from top and had a cover that closed over to keep dirt out. The problem with this one is people forgot to take the tripod quick mount off and opened the cover, which starts the unload and bent the shit out of the slider chassis. Canon did the same thing and those ones were around when I was in the business and you should have seen how mad people were when they ruined their camcorder. Usually it was some family member that inadvertently tried to change the tape without removing the mount. Many were damaged beyond repair. Of course they didn't find this out initially, because it would bend then reverse and they would take the mount off and open again and change the tape. But because it was bent the guides wouldn't load correctly and then all their tapes were recorded out of spec and they didn't find out till they went to play a tape and it wouldn't play. By this time they had recorded many tapes and found that none of them would play and nobody could recover the video because it wasnt recorded correctly. This caused more than a few people to blow their stacks and take out out of me or anyone else that was telling them that their camera aws shot and all their recordings lost.

hello

I just need a working Hi-8 camcorder or player so I can watch my old tapes. Who has one?

@12voltvids

11 ай бұрын

I have a few machines that playback.

@boog110

10 ай бұрын

@@12voltvids That’s awesome news! I’d like to discuss purchasing one, preferably one with a remote. I have one that’s basically been taken apart I can send you as a core. 😁

@12voltvids

10 ай бұрын

@@boog110 don't have any remotes.

@boog110

10 ай бұрын

@@12voltvids Not a deal breaker. Do you have a website or online store?

@12voltvids

10 ай бұрын

@@boog110 no. I get the odd camera given to me, i fix and sell.