Awesome! Got to play with old toys. Almost sad really. Those were at one time state of the art new technology. Now they're just old junk. Thank you as always for going down the memory lane.
I have a new Panasonic AG-4700 Super VHS in my collection without mileage in the factory packaging of gray color , an excellent device, works without problems , I am satisfied I like it
Interesting NV-HS1000 repair! The HS1000 I have originally belonged to my late grandmother. The same coupling on the loading motor broke when she accidentally inserted the label sheet along with a VHS cassette. We got the VCR repaired at a professional workshop, thankfully that was when replacement parts were still available. Sankyo made a lot of mechanisms for cassette decks, they can even be found in entry level Nakamichi decks. So no surprise that they later moved on to making complete VHS mechanisms. I am surprised that the UK market seems to have been quite different to the (Northern) German market. VHS-C was certainly more popular than Video8 over here, indicated by how many VHS-C camcorders and cassettes I still find on flea markets. Video8 is much more rare. Later on S-VHS-C was mostly a failure, not because Hi8 gained more popularity but because people seemed to stick to VHS-C, just replacing older VHS-C camcorders with newer models.
I'm surprised that the Germans, with their reputation for attention to detail, bothered with VHSC. The only good use case I heard for it was service personnel sending tapes back home. Generally in the UK the format died fairly quickly. Manufacturers such as Sharp jumped ship from VHSC to 8mm when it was obvious that VHSC was sinking, leaving only Panasonic and to a lesser extent JVC flogging the dead horse until miniDV came long. Even Matsushita (Panasonic) did 8mm camcorders but under different brands. Philips pulled out of VHSC but didn't join 8mm, they clearly decided it was too crowded and gave up on camcorders.
@@video99couk The Germans are relatively cautious consumers. The people who got into camcorders first made a careful decision on what to buy, and many, for obvious reasons, bought Video8. But when camcorders became really popular in the late 80s and early 90s, most people bought what they already knew, and that was VHS. If the VHS recorder has worked fine for many years, you can't go wrong with a VHS-C camcorder, many would have thought, I guess. Surely another factor was that the traditional German brands, Grundig, Telefunken, Saba, Nordmende, Metz etc. were all backing VHS, selling rebadged Panasonic VHS-C camcorders.
The K deck clutches are very hard to find new but they can be repaired. The fault is oil on the shaft it rotates om weakens the nylon and snaps two small lugs.
@@video99couk it's straightforward. Take it apart, flush out oil and grease, add a drop of super glue gel to the three spurs (ends snap off losing tension on the clutch) and push together. Never had one fail after this. Also the VHS machine will have a missing tooth. You can buy these loading gears quite cheaply still.
@@VintageLynx Right, will do that to the AG-4700 as soon as I get a moment. I've read up about the lost tooth on the z-mechanism. If it had been an SVHS then I would replace that. But on a mere VHS, I've got more of those than I need already, so it won't be repaired.
@@video99couk Good luck. You only get one go at positioning the clutch so keep it pressed fairly firmly together while glue sets. If you don't the clutch will not have enough tension.
The blinking light of death! Seems to be a common problem with the Panasonic mini DV cameras, that one looks like the one that my parents have, it probably only has not more than 20hrs use when it stopped working and start blinking. Unfortunately it was passed it's warranty when it happened so it's just been sitting around in new condition! I don't think that there's many good videos around where these things get fixed... On another note! I heard you mention your isolation transformer! I have to ask, have you ever opened it up and have a look around inside? I watched a video here on TH-cam where a guy who has been working on electronic equipment repairs and has been using an isolation transformer thinking that he was safe until he clipped his oscilloscope ground clip where it should have been ok but all the lights went out and he just couldn't understand why! He didn't realize that he was using a medical grade isolation transformer! Those things were actually designed to isolate noise from medical equipment! Their outputs are ground connected! What you should be using has no name for it as far as I'm aware so I have decided to call it a Tech grade isolation transformer! A these Tech grade isolation transformers need to be made a point of because it's easy for someone to end up with the medical grade isolation transformer and think that they are safe! You have made plenty mentions of your isolation transformer but you never mentioned which type it is! I picked up an isolation transformer that I found for $50 at an e waste facility which was serving duties at a hospital! Rated for 2.4kw it's toroidal transformer is bigger than any birthday cake and possibly bigger than all the birthday cakes I ever got put together LoL, I kid you not! Trying to pick this thing up off the floor, it feels like it's actually bolted down, I think it weighs about 35kg, I couldn't pull out $50Au Fast enough and get it into my car! But it like so many out there has a ground wire pass through! It's a huge safety point that everyone who does what you do should be drilling into all their viewers! If your persistence saves just one person, then you have redeemed yourself! Even just the simple mention of "it's a Tech grade isolation transformer and not a hospital grade isolation transformer" and if someone asked you in the comments what is the difference? Then right there you have probably just saved someone's life! I like many other people who watch what you and other people do, learn what we do from you guys! Remember to keep us safe! I have modified my isolation transformer by removing the ground connection from the output but I already knew better, but not everyone is as knowledgeable in electronics as I am and is basically the reason why I try to make such a point about it! I really hope that this post finds you well 🙂...
That Hi-8 was strange but Sony consumer did strange things with other machines as well, the SL-100 was a US model Super Betamax (High Band) machine with mono sound and no A/V inputs just an antenna socket and tuner, although it did have an A/V out connection.
One of the SL-100 machines came up on auction the other day, I saw the connectors and quickly decided against that one. I never saw the point of mono Beta HiFi either, but Sanyo did one too. The CCD-TRV36E was obviously an extreme cost-reduced camcorder. But then the Panasonic Z-mechanism from the NV-FJ710 was an extreme cost reduced deck too.
Can you tell me what this Panasonic Super Drive really is? How is it different from SONYs etc? Whats special about it? I just ordered a Panasonic NV 635 AM
I got a bunch of them from a Panasonic dealership when they had finished with servicing VHS/SVHS. Hardly any left now though. They can probably be repaired though. The K-mechanism was used in a number of VHS and SVHS decks including the NV-HS950, which is another high end model with TBC.
Can you use a screwdriver to adjust the VCR guides? Some people say capturing to DV then converting it to MP4 gives lower quality than straight to DVD on a standalone DVD recorder.
You can usually get away with a small screwdriver rather than the special tool. Yes, ripping a DVD and converting to MPEG4 will give fairly poor results, compared to capturing properly in the first place. If you must use DVD at all, set to the highest bit rate (usually 1 hour per single-layer DVD) for best results. I virtually never use DVD for anything these days.
@@video99couk My mistake. I meant capturing to DV then converting it to MP4 gives lower quality than straight to DVD on a standalone DVD recorder. That's what 12voltvids seem to conclude on his video. th-cam.com/video/WZKgBha0HSY/w-d-xo.html
@@rsuryase I'm not sure he does say that exactly and it will depend on the size of MPEG4 file you select. The DV files are good for editing anyway, I would recommend working with those rather than smaller MPEG4 files. Also bear in mind that NTSC DV gives slightly worse results than PAL DV due to a different DV encoding format.
Hello, I have an old Panasonic RX1 palmcorder but I can't find the battery and charger. I have the video tape holder with the tapes, but it got stuck in an old video recorder and now I can't get it to play in another video player. Do you know where I can get spares and will it play on the telly? There's a tape stuck inside it.
If I were you, I would rig up 6V (probably around the original battery voltage) and connect to the battery terminals. The polarity should be marked on it, get this right. Then hopefully the camcorder will power up and you can eject the tape. Then hurl the camcorder into the bin! You'll then need a VHSC adaptor, they are available on eBay etc., and a VHS player. I would recommend getting the tapes digitised to USB stick or hard disk though. These tapes degrade badly over time.
good afternoon i own a VIDEO Panasonic NV 100 whitch WORKS but remains stuck on the STOP button and does not receive another command , eject works, can you help??advise please, BRegs
It's not possible to de-bug faults by remote control like this. There could be multiple causes from minor mechanical issues to serious electronic faults. It needs proper investigation with a service manual.
They turn up on eBay fairly regularly, as part of a video recorder service tools kit. Don't pay silly money for them, think around £30. I was given one kit and bought another on eBay.
in the Panasonic NV-HS1000 you put the spare plastic in the motor all the way down ! BIG mistake !!!!!!! the plastic goes in up to a point! just before it ends ! to the point before the vacuum approximately that the plastic has ! unfortunately i do not know english and translation with google ! :( I hope I can explain the mistake a bit :(
No I didn't put it all the way down, though it might have looked like it. There was a special tool supplied to service agents just for setting the position of this motor coupling.
Its so risky for units to be rewinding with the tape around pinch rollers and the head. Older VCRs, would first bring it back to the cassette and then it will rewind etc.
That broken coupling is such a crappy design, i've seen no end of cracked plastic gears and worm drives. Unless you have another replacement it's not easy to fix them, some expand and open the crack more. It's just as if they didn't want them to last... lol.
It is a poor design, but Panasonic were not alone in putting plastic components onto metal components and watching them split apart. Sony are well known for the same mistake, even in some of their very expensive professional equipment like Digital Betacam.
Hey. i have a blaupunkt like your white panasonic in the beginning with the same drive. mine is the plastic where the pressure roller sits on. it's cracked. do you know what that piece of plastic is called. i can not find that spare part. I can not find it. excuse my English. I am Danish and not so good at English but try. I hope you understand what I mean
The pressure roller is called a pinch roller. I think the part you require is called the Pinch Arm Unit. You can fairly easily download the service manual for the Panasonic K-mechanism to check that and find the part number.
I was the test software engineer for a device called MV1821 / MV1822, but don't tell anyone. So I did the programming of a Teradyne J941 digital test system to do the manufacturing testing of this mixed signal (part analogue) device. A long time ago.
@@video99couk Ah ha! Looks like I now have someone to blame for all the missed recordings because I accidentally left PDC turned on. I usually found PDC caused more issues than it solved so I tried to make sure I left it turned off.
@@stevecoatesdotnet The studios kept making mistakes and sending out the wrong start signals. It also used to upset the power companies, all those video recorders starting at the same instant.
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Awesome! Got to play with old toys. Almost sad really. Those were at one time state of the art new technology. Now they're just old junk. Thank you as always for going down the memory lane.
I have a new Panasonic AG-4700 Super VHS in my collection without mileage in the factory packaging of gray color , an excellent device, works without problems , I am satisfied I like it
Really fun video to watch. Thanks!
Interesting NV-HS1000 repair! The HS1000 I have originally belonged to my late grandmother. The same coupling on the loading motor broke when she accidentally inserted the label sheet along with a VHS cassette. We got the VCR repaired at a professional workshop, thankfully that was when replacement parts were still available.
Sankyo made a lot of mechanisms for cassette decks, they can even be found in entry level Nakamichi decks. So no surprise that they later moved on to making complete VHS mechanisms.
I am surprised that the UK market seems to have been quite different to the (Northern) German market. VHS-C was certainly more popular than Video8 over here, indicated by how many VHS-C camcorders and cassettes I still find on flea markets. Video8 is much more rare. Later on S-VHS-C was mostly a failure, not because Hi8 gained more popularity but because people seemed to stick to VHS-C, just replacing older VHS-C camcorders with newer models.
I'm surprised that the Germans, with their reputation for attention to detail, bothered with VHSC. The only good use case I heard for it was service personnel sending tapes back home. Generally in the UK the format died fairly quickly. Manufacturers such as Sharp jumped ship from VHSC to 8mm when it was obvious that VHSC was sinking, leaving only Panasonic and to a lesser extent JVC flogging the dead horse until miniDV came long. Even Matsushita (Panasonic) did 8mm camcorders but under different brands. Philips pulled out of VHSC but didn't join 8mm, they clearly decided it was too crowded and gave up on camcorders.
@@video99couk The Germans are relatively cautious consumers. The people who got into camcorders first made a careful decision on what to buy, and many, for obvious reasons, bought Video8. But when camcorders became really popular in the late 80s and early 90s, most people bought what they already knew, and that was VHS. If the VHS recorder has worked fine for many years, you can't go wrong with a VHS-C camcorder, many would have thought, I guess. Surely another factor was that the traditional German brands, Grundig, Telefunken, Saba, Nordmende, Metz etc. were all backing VHS, selling rebadged Panasonic VHS-C camcorders.
The K deck clutches are very hard to find new but they can be repaired. The fault is oil on the shaft it rotates om weakens the nylon and snaps two small lugs.
I didn't know that, I will look into one in more detail. Similar problem then to the motor coupling.
@@video99couk it's straightforward. Take it apart, flush out oil and grease, add a drop of super glue gel to the three spurs (ends snap off losing tension on the clutch) and push together. Never had one fail after this. Also the VHS machine will have a missing tooth. You can buy these loading gears quite cheaply still.
@@VintageLynx Right, will do that to the AG-4700 as soon as I get a moment.
I've read up about the lost tooth on the z-mechanism. If it had been an SVHS then I would replace that. But on a mere VHS, I've got more of those than I need already, so it won't be repaired.
@@video99couk Good luck. You only get one go at positioning the clutch so keep it pressed fairly firmly together while glue sets. If you don't the clutch will not have enough tension.
I had NV-DS65 with the same problem of mechanics. 2 blinkings flash. But this camcorder was to much old and worked for a long time.
The blinking light of death! Seems to be a common problem with the Panasonic mini DV cameras, that one looks like the one that my parents have, it probably only has not more than 20hrs use when it stopped working and start blinking. Unfortunately it was passed it's warranty when it happened so it's just been sitting around in new condition! I don't think that there's many good videos around where these things get fixed...
On another note!
I heard you mention your isolation transformer!
I have to ask, have you ever opened it up and have a look around inside? I watched a video here on TH-cam where a guy who has been working on electronic equipment repairs and has been using an isolation transformer thinking that he was safe until he clipped his oscilloscope ground clip where it should have been ok but all the lights went out and he just couldn't understand why!
He didn't realize that he was using a medical grade isolation transformer! Those things were actually designed to isolate noise from medical equipment! Their outputs are ground connected!
What you should be using has no name for it as far as I'm aware so I have decided to call it a Tech grade isolation transformer!
A these Tech grade isolation transformers need to be made a point of because it's easy for someone to end up with the medical grade isolation transformer and think that they are safe! You have made plenty mentions of your isolation transformer but you never mentioned which type it is!
I picked up an isolation transformer that I found for $50 at an e waste facility which was serving duties at a hospital! Rated for 2.4kw it's toroidal transformer is bigger than any birthday cake and possibly bigger than all the birthday cakes I ever got put together LoL, I kid you not! Trying to pick this thing up off the floor, it feels like it's actually bolted down, I think it weighs about 35kg, I couldn't pull out $50Au Fast enough and get it into my car!
But it like so many out there has a ground wire pass through!
It's a huge safety point that everyone who does what you do should be drilling into all their viewers! If your persistence saves just one person, then you have redeemed yourself!
Even just the simple mention of "it's a Tech grade isolation transformer and not a hospital grade isolation transformer" and if someone asked you in the comments what is the difference? Then right there you have probably just saved someone's life!
I like many other people who watch what you and other people do, learn what we do from you guys! Remember to keep us safe!
I have modified my isolation transformer by removing the ground connection from the output but I already knew better, but not everyone is as knowledgeable in electronics as I am and is basically the reason why I try to make such a point about it!
I really hope that this post finds you well 🙂...
That Hi-8 was strange but Sony consumer did strange things with other machines as well, the SL-100 was a US model Super Betamax (High Band) machine with mono sound and no A/V inputs just an antenna socket and tuner, although it did have an A/V out connection.
One of the SL-100 machines came up on auction the other day, I saw the connectors and quickly decided against that one. I never saw the point of mono Beta HiFi either, but Sanyo did one too.
The CCD-TRV36E was obviously an extreme cost-reduced camcorder. But then the Panasonic Z-mechanism from the NV-FJ710 was an extreme cost reduced deck too.
video99.co.uk Oh the SL-100 was NOT HiFi mono, it’s linear mono.
@@mspysu79 Even worse!
Can you tell me what this Panasonic Super Drive really is? How is it different from SONYs etc? Whats special about it? I just ordered a Panasonic NV 635 AM
Interesting, I have a Panasonic NV-HD700 with sound problems, the picture is good. Do you have any suggestions what could be wrong?
I'm afraid there is rarely a simple fix to problems like this, it will need careful investigation.
Where do you get the couplings for the motor on the HS-1000, do you know what other machines that mechanism may go in?
I got a bunch of them from a Panasonic dealership when they had finished with servicing VHS/SVHS. Hardly any left now though. They can probably be repaired though.
The K-mechanism was used in a number of VHS and SVHS decks including the NV-HS950, which is another high end model with TBC.
@@video99couk Just to add to this list, NV-HS800 and NV-HD90 also use the K Mechanism. The head drum is slightly different though
Can you use a screwdriver to adjust the VCR guides? Some people say capturing to DV then converting it to MP4 gives lower quality than straight to DVD on a standalone DVD recorder.
You can usually get away with a small screwdriver rather than the special tool.
Yes, ripping a DVD and converting to MPEG4 will give fairly poor results, compared to capturing properly in the first place. If you must use DVD at all, set to the highest bit rate (usually 1 hour per single-layer DVD) for best results. I virtually never use DVD for anything these days.
@@video99couk My mistake. I meant capturing to DV then converting it to MP4 gives lower quality than straight to DVD on a standalone DVD recorder. That's what 12voltvids seem to conclude on his video. th-cam.com/video/WZKgBha0HSY/w-d-xo.html
@@rsuryase I'm not sure he does say that exactly and it will depend on the size of MPEG4 file you select. The DV files are good for editing anyway, I would recommend working with those rather than smaller MPEG4 files. Also bear in mind that NTSC DV gives slightly worse results than PAL DV due to a different DV encoding format.
Hello, I have an old Panasonic RX1 palmcorder but I can't find the battery and charger. I have the video tape holder with the tapes, but it got stuck in an old video recorder and now I can't get it to play in another video player. Do you know where I can get spares and will it play on the telly? There's a tape stuck inside it.
If I were you, I would rig up 6V (probably around the original battery voltage) and connect to the battery terminals. The polarity should be marked on it, get this right. Then hopefully the camcorder will power up and you can eject the tape. Then hurl the camcorder into the bin! You'll then need a VHSC adaptor, they are available on eBay etc., and a VHS player. I would recommend getting the tapes digitised to USB stick or hard disk though. These tapes degrade badly over time.
good afternoon i own a VIDEO Panasonic NV 100 whitch WORKS but remains stuck on the STOP button and does not receive another command , eject works, can you help??advise please, BRegs
It's not possible to de-bug faults by remote control like this. There could be multiple causes from minor mechanical issues to serious electronic faults. It needs proper investigation with a service manual.
Where can I get that tool kit you have to adjust the guides?
They turn up on eBay fairly regularly, as part of a video recorder service tools kit. Don't pay silly money for them, think around £30. I was given one kit and bought another on eBay.
in the Panasonic NV-HS1000 you put the spare plastic in the motor all the way down ! BIG mistake !!!!!!! the plastic goes in up to a point! just before it ends ! to the point before the vacuum approximately that the plastic has ! unfortunately i do not know english and translation with google ! :( I hope I can explain the mistake a bit :(
No I didn't put it all the way down, though it might have looked like it. There was a special tool supplied to service agents just for setting the position of this motor coupling.
I have a Panasonic AG-DV2000 it says error f03 what does it means
Really you need the service manual for this. It's not likely to be trivial, there's probably a mechanical fault with the deck, possibly reel drive.
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Its so risky for units to be rewinding with the tape around pinch rollers and the head. Older VCRs, would first bring it back to the cassette and then it will rewind etc.
It's done so there is a real time tape counter. The same applies to other formats including Beta, Video 8 and minidv.
That broken coupling is such a crappy design, i've seen no end of cracked plastic gears and worm drives.
Unless you have another replacement it's not easy to fix them, some expand and open the crack more.
It's just as if they didn't want them to last... lol.
It is a poor design, but Panasonic were not alone in putting plastic components onto metal components and watching them split apart. Sony are well known for the same mistake, even in some of their very expensive professional equipment like Digital Betacam.
Hey.
i have a blaupunkt like your white panasonic in the beginning with the same drive.
mine is the plastic where the pressure roller sits on. it's cracked.
do you know what that piece of plastic is called.
i can not find that spare part.
I can not find it. excuse my English.
I am Danish and not so good at English but try. I hope you understand what I mean
The pressure roller is called a pinch roller. I think the part you require is called the Pinch Arm Unit. You can fairly easily download the service manual for the Panasonic K-mechanism to check that and find the part number.
video99.co.uk oh. thank you very much.
I will try that.
i really like the old panasonic
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What was your involvement with PDC?
I was the test software engineer for a device called MV1821 / MV1822, but don't tell anyone. So I did the programming of a Teradyne J941 digital test system to do the manufacturing testing of this mixed signal (part analogue) device. A long time ago.
@@video99couk Sounds interesting! And Mum's the word ;)
@@video99couk Ah ha! Looks like I now have someone to blame for all the missed recordings because I accidentally left PDC turned on. I usually found PDC caused more issues than it solved so I tried to make sure I left it turned off.
@@stevecoatesdotnet The studios kept making mistakes and sending out the wrong start signals. It also used to upset the power companies, all those video recorders starting at the same instant.