Re: Gemstar VCR Plus Model VIP-18
- From: "guy" <guy@xxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 12:21:37 -0400
Don`t know the problem with that unit, but I see newer 4 head hi-fi vcr`s
working at yardsales for $5.00 and they have trouble selling them. how much
are brokens worth?
I guess DVD recorders are in.
"Mike" <cthirty7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:SaOdnQbtAO2bqwrfRVn-rA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have owned about a dozen of these through the years, all with pretty
much
> the same failure -
> Symptoms - the LCD begins missing several segments. If a vcr+ code is
> punched in, the unit will go ahead and turn the vcr on and off, like it is
> supposed to, but the LCD is mostly unreadable.
>
> I took one apart this morning. Found a dead 3 volt lithium battery
inside.
> Replaced it with a good battery and powered the unit back up. Same
> symptoms. (The word VCR is displayed on the LCD, but several segments are
> missing). Next I checked the ESR on the four electrolytic capacitors and
> found everything within reason there. Next I ohmmetered the caps, just to
> make sure none were shorted, then I paralleled the caps with known good
> ones. No change. Checked all transistors and diodes, everything looks
> good. The circuit board is the double sided type so I resoldered every
> connection, just to ensure conductivity from one side of the board to the
> other, still no change. The only thing I have noticed, when I press on
the
> back side of the LCD, and run my finger across it, the segments do flash
on
> and off intermittently (but the text isn't correct), and when I stop
> pressing on the back side of the LCD the text returns to pretty much what
it
> was when I started. I (very carefully) soldered a little bit around the
> microprocessor on the side that feeds the LCD, but still no change.
>
> Has anyone ever worked on one of these and figured out what fails? It's
> apparently a pretty common problem. I had one of these that I bought
brand
> new. It worked great until the low battery warning message appeared on
the
> LCD. I replaced the batteries and from that point on the LCD has never
> displayed right. I called Gemstar and they said they don't service them
> (this has been two or three years ago).
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
.
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