Textbook analysis aided by a wealth of experience, I do like happy endings.

Guy had taste, I love jeeves and wooster, another great video, wish you was here in UK would get you to sort my sound problem on my Sony amp

I envy your talent with detecting bad solder joints. Nice job being patient, and staying logical. Finishing the video, I see you used a method in deciding with solders to reflow. I've been soldering for nearly 50 years and I can't spot them like you do. They all look bad to me or they all look good, LOL!!

Very informative and well done, we will be at SEMA Thank you for the content

The condition your client has kept his Sony DVD/HDD recorder is great, glad no dents are to be seen.

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

As good condition as mine.

My RDR-HX715 is still working with the exception of the front display that slowly dimmed over time to the point of being non visible - after the part was not available. I can get the same important info displayed on TV screen so this was only a nice feature. Was thinking vacuum loss but may now check this issue in the high voltage section feeding it. I have had "cold solder" problems with several of my Sony video components for the last 20-30 years. I think due to the fact that they went to wave soldering the boards. Thanks for the info!

I have a RDR-HXD890, same layout inside this one. I sear by it, its my main dvd recorder. The VFD being dim does not surprise me, my VFD has dimmed in certain well used sections. It was interesting to know that the solder joints could be sub-par. I will think of those should my one stop working. I recently had it open to service the dvd drive. Pain to get it out and back in again as they use the dvd drive chassi to keep all the cables nice and tidy, there are clicps everywhere. All I wanted to do was remove the clamp so I can clean the rubber/felt ring on the motor that grips the disc as that was dusty and discs were spinning freely at times resulting in failed burns etc when the speed changed.

All He had to do was take the Hard drive out and Insert It Into a Docking Station straight Into the computer. I still got one of these though the top of the rage one and It still works. And I have some VHS tapes to transfer this weekend coming (14/09/2019) so will be using It for that. It stopped transferring data once, I found out It was the Blue/Red Data ribbon wire that had failed. I swapped It out for a new one and It all works great again. Nice Job 12Volts. Keep them coming.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

No that won't work. Tried that on a pioneer a few years ago that the DVD drive had failed on. Not only could the computer not read the drive (It was formatted in a non standard format) but when it was plugged back into the DVD recorder the system detected that the drive had been tampered with and proceeded to format the drive and wipe the clients home videos, about 100 hours that he had recorded from all his 8mm and hi8 tapes. He was pissed to say the least. I did well on that though, as I was able to get all his tapes and archive them on my equipment. I haven't tried pulling the drive on my Sony or Panasonic because I don't want to loose what I have on the HDD on them.

Smashing, No parts required :-D I'm plesently supprised that it wasn't dead caps, so common with switchmodes. Mosfets on the output for switching :-D

Good job

Nice! Thanks

Excllent

Nice.I use the PAL version of this as a HDMI-converter for digitizing tapes. Thankfully they're not like the euro (and maybe US as well?) Panasonic DVD/HDD recorders where some ELNA caps in the power supply pop, and the input switcher chip goes bad - possibly due to the bad caps. It's a shame as some of them have some extremely good TBC/filter in the video decoder for stabilizing crappy VHS tapes.

@lucasRem-ku6eb

Жыл бұрын

It's both color system, PAL + NTSC, no tape unit in it !

thanks I have that same model the display is very dim I will keep this on file just in case my has the same thing great deck

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Yes I have the 730 model, and the display isn't super bright either, but remember, the component is designed to live in your stereo cabinet, or the stand below a TV. Nobody wants a clock display so bright it lights up the room. The work bench is very bright. I have 6 8 watt LEDS overhead, plus 2 40 watt fluorescent lamps, and a 65 watt and 42 watt CFL bulb blasting in from behind me. 230 foot candles, or about 2500 lux is how bright the work bench is lit, so it is no wonder that displays look so dim.

If he still can't get his data off the discs, tell him to use ISOBuster to extract the files. He can then remaster it with a disc burning program like IMGBurn.

Thats amazing as I have never had luck fixing issues with simple resoldering, that didnt already look like cracked solder. Although, it is that lead-free garbage so anything is possible. The other thing is during the resoldering process, you re-heated the components too and could have a thermally intermittent component, Now, I did see alot of that. Remember the freeze-spray/heat gun days? I do!

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Poor man's freeze spray. A can of dust off inverted.

@THEtechknight

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. done that many of times. Still have a couple cans at my work. Ended up snuffing out an intermittent oscillator IC that ran one of my CPUs with that can. First time I ever ran into that fault.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

@@THEtechknight last thermal fault I had was a bad Gama correction IC, on the tcon board of s Sony 37xbr6 tv (video is on my channel). I had to cut the old one out with a razor blade to replace. Tv still works great. My daughter has it now.

@THEtechknight

4 жыл бұрын

Nice! The panels on those Sonys were hit or miss. Lucky there. :-)

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

@@THEtechknight Yes they had some bad panels for sure. I have 2 Sony sets both good. Both free sets. I went over the panel problems when working on a 50" Sony. Early ones failed with dumb ass owners sprayed cleaner on the screen thinking they had to clean the like old TV's and the cleaner ran down the screen and into the tabs corroding them. So the Rockets at Sony flipped the panel and put the tcon at the top. Heat rises and the lamp heat then cooled the panel drive ICS which are bonds to the fpc attached to the glass. I have 2 sets with bad panels currently. They are both Samsung and they are plasma. They have a few thin colored veritical lines and are just used for gaming. Again sets that were given to me.

ah player/recorder issues. I have a laserdisc player that while it works the only fault I see on the thing is the standby power is lost when left on standby or powered off for several minutes. never figured it out but its power supply related though a pioneer cld-d502

Very common on these Sony recorders. The next problem will be the belt on the DVD drive

Hi, I have the same model and it's literally brand new. Haven't used it in a while. Tried seeing if it's working and functioning. Everything powers on, no issues with HDD, HDMI works. But the RCA, Component inputs and outputs don't seem to be working at all. There's no picture shown coming in or displayed on the TV. Any idea what might be wrong?

I had one of those. I wish I hadn't sold it for next to nothing, it would be fun to have to tinker with today. ... Oh, it's got a Seagate drive in it. Nevermind. I'm glad I sold it.

@toysareforboys1

4 жыл бұрын

Never put anything important on a Seagate :)

@EastAngliaUK

4 жыл бұрын

I have 2 still

I noticed a german UNIVERSUM cassette tape. Nice!

What can you say about the MESR - 100 ESR tester? Owned one, lead wires are short

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Don't know anything about it.

@playstation2bigs

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids try to search in youtube "MESR-100" it will tell if capacitors are bad, Newbie here but that esr tool fixed my PS2 fat power supply, found 2 dead capacitors

@NunYa953

4 жыл бұрын

DO NOT BUY THAT PIECE OF SHIT! ITS AWFUL!

@playstation2bigs

4 жыл бұрын

@@NunYa953 NNOOOOOO !!!! Don't say that. It fixed my PS2 power supply using that esr tester. 2 dead capacitors

@NunYa953

4 жыл бұрын

@@playstation2bigs That's about how long that thing works for and it is not even close to accurate. To be honest, the Bob Parker one (like the one used in this video) is the best around for the money. I've also got a Peak Atlas ESR70. It's so, so. If all you are fixing is PS2 then that meter is fine. If you plan to use it regularly and accuracy is important, no way.

I know the feeling when it works . I use these decks for formating some KZread videos with an old XP lap top for others to see without a computer . Problem is the DVD recorder laser duffs out after so long so I use the hard drive . How the hell do we maintain the hard drive on these , such as Defragg exe ???

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

A drive used for video will never need to be defragged because the files are very big. I have DVD recorders I use in my archive business that are very old, and they burn disks perfectly. I have one that has done probably 1000 disks (toshiba) and still works perfectly. I think many fail prematurely more due to environment they are stored / used in. My house is air conditioned, which keeps the humidity down and nobody is permitted to smoke in my house, and never have. The kitchen is far away from my equipment, and because we cook with gas, there is a big ass exhaust fan overhead to clear the air.

@shaun9107

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Its a Panasonic , it records for about 7-10 mins & stops . No idea how many discs its seen

@dlarge6502

2 жыл бұрын

You can use the build in optimise command (in the menu on my RDR-HXD890) to defrag the files. At other times I just pull out the HDD and plug it into my PC to run a SMART test to confirm its still good. Edit: Oh you have a panasonic. Well the SMART test will still work, but that wont fix an issue only tell you if there is one. If you dont have anything on the HDD that is important you could try erasing it and having your unit reformat it as if it were an new HDD. research how to do this first, in sonys for example you MUST use the same capacity. They are locked to a specific capacity. You may also need a service remote so check first. Heck if you are going to try this see if you can put in a newer bigger hdd anyway!

The client had a great technology for this DVD recorder and HDD recorder, much better than my Magnavox Hi-Fi VHS and DVD recorder. =) Even when the HDD had failed, it can be replaced with the new HDD like 1TB HDD and make the profile go bigger and give plenty of space! I don't know that I see the HDD size is 160GB in size, and I'm not sure that the HDD is made in China. Both Chinese and Philippines HDD is very notorious poor design and whenever it failed, the HDD itself will lose data partition and can't get it recover from the HDD and re-format the HDD any longer, and there for, the HDD is no longer reliable for any device. But the Thailand's HDD is better and more reliable than the Chinese and Philippines HDD.

@Pfirtzer

4 жыл бұрын

Any idea how to format the HD, when you upggrade?I miss the original remote.?

Hi sir, i have sony rdr hx720 and i need to tilt it front side up 90° in order to player read the disc. And then i can put it back to normal position. But if i take out the cd, it will repeat the same problem which is c1300 error or no disc.. Do you have any idea sir?

How do I contact you? I have a couple of devices I would like to send you. Thank you

If you were to pull out the hard drive from one of these DVD recorders and hook it to a PC could you read what's on it?

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Encrypted normally.

@speedyboishan87

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Yep 99.9% of DVD/HDD recorders are encrypted with a special file system that neither will Windows, Linux, Apple be able to read. It's so you don't copy video's that are copyrighted or you do not own.

@catsbyondrepair

4 жыл бұрын

@@speedyboishan87 I can get video off of them you just have to know how to write code .

@coondogtheman

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but 99% of these recorders won't record anything with macrovision.

@catsbyondrepair

4 жыл бұрын

@@coondogtheman time base correction takes care of that.

When you redo lead-free solder connections, are you using lead-free solder too? I heard that mix them up can cause issues.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Leaded solder and I don't care if it breaks in a year. Past my warranty is all that matters. When I was in service the bulletins always indicated that leaded solder was ok. It is not ok to use Lead free where leaded was originally used. Will result in brittle connection. Lead free is typically tin with a bit of copper. Leaded is tin and lead. Either 37% or 40% lead. I use the 40%

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He be pleased he can watch his libery again.

I'm gonna watch some Jeeves and Wooster - after finishing with 12VoltVids of course.

Did I miss something? What about the very dim display? It is not fixed?

@rwj777

4 жыл бұрын

For some reason, most Sony electronics from this era, always have their displays go dim over the course of time. I currently have a Sony DVD recorder/ vhs combo deck that has the same issue with a very dim front display.

@hansu-nihon

4 жыл бұрын

@@rwj777 Thanks for explaining. :-) In an earlier video Dave fixed a dim display by replacing a bad capacitor. I have also a Philips receiver and the display is not so bright anymore, I'll check some capacitors in the power supply that powers the display.

@olnnn

4 жыл бұрын

@@hansu-nihon I've got the PAL version of this recorder. I think there's a menu setting for display dimming too, so it may be working fine.

@hansu-nihon

4 жыл бұрын

@@olnnn Yes, It was set to completely dimmed.

@olnnn

4 жыл бұрын

@@hansu-nihon Oh I actually meant I think the Sony one has a menu setting, but I suppose it's common on other models too :)

Jeeves & Wooster on the HDD

Wonder which joint was the issue? I reckon the transformer secondary itself or maybe the opto or... or...I didn't see anything obvious looking carefully..Anyone see anything?

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

around the 12 minute mark, look just above the 3rd pin on the right hand connector. You didn't see me do that one on camera.

@martinda7446

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Thanks for that - it's nice to get an answer. Becoming such a great channel.

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

@@martinda7446 This just shows that bad solder connections are one of the most common faults.

Good morning questions I saw your Old DickSmith Electronics ESR meter Can test in 12 volts battery?

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

Ear meter operates from a 9 volt battery. It tests the ear of capacitors. Not to be used on live circuits.

@diyelectronics5375

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids I saw Blue ESR And it can test in 12volts battery TO Measure ESR inside the battery. So you mean it can't test the Old Dicksmith electronics ESR?

Well that was an easy fix

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

It took me awhile to arrive at the problem. Video might only be a few minutes but I spent a few hours working on it.

GOOD MORNING, HOW COULD I PASS THE VIDEO FILES THAT ARE ON THE SONY RDR HX750 HARD DISK TO MY PC PLEASE THANK YOU

@12voltvids

3 жыл бұрын

They are encrypted so you can't.

@masterdigitalhd

3 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids OK. THANKS

So bad solder connections is all I have to do to maybe fight it

@waterup380

Жыл бұрын

Fix it

Nice Seagate barracuda Desktop sata hard drive

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

I use Seagate pipeline HD2 drives for my file backup storage. I have a box of them. Drop them in my docking station.

@jjohnson71958

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids i havew one thats upto 230gb 250gb

Pioneer deck video has been DELETED so how did I watch it ???

@12voltvids

4 жыл бұрын

What? It has like 1150 views so far and growing by the minute. Must have been a glitch.

@shaun9107

4 жыл бұрын

@@12voltvids Nothing new with internet TECH

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I'm on Facebook if you want to send me a friend request and I can hook up with you through there to be able to send my projects to you to get fixed like I said I could pay the shipping both ways and your time labor Parts whatever no problem I have some tube amplifiers that need to be repaired some solid-state amplifiers that need to be repaired some old radios

WAY TOO LONG !!!! Just show what you did first, if people need to see more, show that after you show how you fixed it! WHY MAD VIDEOS HERE ??? get skills !!!

@12voltvids

Жыл бұрын

I get paid by the minute. Short videos are not worth my time to do them.