I love your videos, nothing I hate more than having to deal with those little Flex cables, sometimes it scares me that I feel like I might break them. You might think I'm a little peculiar, Electronics has kind of been a hobby of mine most of my life, I'm 67 now I was in radio repair in the military but I've always kept Electronics as a hobby. In my spare time for another hobby I like to Salvage components from equipment that is either thrown away giving to me or that I buy cheap. I have a real large collection of germanium diodes I have collected from old equipment. Probably over 700 of them. And of course all the other type of components that you could imagine. I have even salvaged some of those tiny fuses that you were talking about that you don't have. But I like your trick of just running a little strand of wire over them. I also have a quite a collection of laser diodes, from the red ones to infrared to ultraviolet, all different powers and different Style cases. Some of these were from DVD burners from computers to DVD players to Blu-ray players. I made little anti-static bags out of larger anti-static bags using a food sealer and have all the diodes in each individual anti-static bag and labeled as to what they are and what power they are.. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all this stuff . After moving from my house to this smaller two-bedroom apartment I just do not have the room to experiment like I used to. I have about six or seven helium Neon gas lasers with the power supplies to most of them, I even have a tiny helium neon laser from an old food checkout scanner from a grocery store. I've converted this into a portable helium neon laser pointer that's about a footlong in a plastic clear tube so you can see everything inside of it. It has the helium neon tube, the driver assembly in a small square copper pack, and then three 18650 lithium ion cells. It's not as convenient as the new pen sized laser pointers, but it's quite the conversation piece. I have a Sony Handycam with the night shot, it's the DCR TRV 310 made in July of 1999. I picked this up from the Salvation Army for about 20 bucks. It works good except I had it in storage for a little while, and playing with it now I've noticed that the zoom function sometimes works sometimes it's a little finicky. I'm wondering what do you think, do you think it's the actual Zoom mechanism sticking from not having been used in a long time or do you think there's something wrong with the switch contacts on the flex cable under the wide and telescopic button on the outside of the unit. I don't have any of the original batteries that are supposed to clip into the back of the unit but I did happen to come across about 7 batteries that can screw into the tripod mount on the bottom and they have an adapter cable to come out of them and plug into the power in slot on the back of the camera. I just use it like that for right now. When I got those batteries a while back most of them were dead but I opened up each one and replaced the 18650 lithium batteries in it with salvaged 18650 lithium cells that I got out of discarded laptop battery packs. Usually only one or two batteries are ever bad in one of those laptop battery packs and you're left with five or six good ones. I would go to a computer store, they would give me unrepairable equipment from desktops to laptops to the batterie packs and such. I was able to salvage about a hundred of those 18650 lithium cells and they're all in almost like new condition and I've charged them. Anyway those batteries I reconditioned work fine.These battery packs that I came across at a Salvation Army store are the Digipower DPS - 9000 7.2 volt Lithium-Ion. With the battery packs there was a charger with all the correct charging adapter cables and the connector cables to go to the camera. I figured I would save money and just use these since I have them. They're pretty good. they have a 5 LED battery indicator on the end of them with a little push button to test the charge status. Sorry for rambling, I just thought I would tell you about the Camera batteries that I have. What do you think about this TRV 310 with the night shot, do you think it's a fairly good camera. One last thing was that the camera came with the camera case and it even had the instruction manual with it. Well thanks for listening, take care, I really do enjoy your shows.
I never had a gift card drain itself. That idea was discussed back when gift cards became all the rage. There were threats of regulation by the US government if stuff like that were to happen, so AFAIK the entire industry backed off that kind of fuckery. Maybe things evolved different in Canada.
Apparently after 12 months they charge a service fee to maintain the account. That was according to the manager. I should have said sorry I only have this unopened gift card I don't have a credit card or cash.
Had a similar camcorder that would click the lens when connecting power and also whenever pressing any button on it. That turned out to be one of those fuses as well even though it wasn't "completely dead". Keep the videos coming!
This is a nice Digital 8 camcorder, it has passthrough mode and a very good built-in TBC, it can be used to digitize composite or SVideo analog video into rock-solid DV.
I have a very similar camera. Just took it out of storage to re-burn my old 8mm tapes to DVD with the Sony DVD Recorder that you reviewed about a month ago and it worked perfectly. I was nervous because there was black flakes all over the place on my desk but was relieved when I realized that it was just the hand strap material shedding all over the place. Had to cut it off as I did not see any easy way to remove it and was not about to go down a rabbit hole trying.
If you look at my 240 you will see how I dealt with the flaky hand strap. I removed the faux leather part and left the nylon strap. You know so it can still be used. Someone donated a camera they had cut the strap off. I pulled parts to fix my 240 and tossed the rest.
@@12voltvids I'll have to check it out. Sounds like a great tip. I knew I would never need it though so I did not care personally. I would never record on that old dinosaur again. Thanks for taking the time to reply Dave.
I have just been watching one of your videos on this very camera model where you repaired a stuck iris. I have a camera with the same symptoms but on inspection the iris isn't stuck. There is no voltage to the motor. I have applied voltage to the motor and it operates. Zoom operates and everything else on on the camera works correctly. Have you seen this before or any ideas please Dave?
@@12voltvids Yes, the CCD is working and there is a picture. I removed the iris out of the slot to see if it operated but it appears that there is no voltage to it. Ribbon seems fine.
Again a hair wire works every bit as well and I don't have to order parts. Keeping costs down is priority. If i order a part and request shipping by post but seller says eff it and ships fed ex and fedbex adds a 40.00 broker fee on that I have no problem passing on to customer then I am the one that looks like a crook. So I don't order in parts. If I can't buy them local then I am in a pickle because shipping has gotten out of hand. When we used to order parts from Sony they all came by mail and the shipping was a flat 3.00. Didn't matter if I ordered 1 transistor or 20 it was a flat rate. Digikey and mouser are criminal. Ordered 2 little switched for a dat machine. They were 1.50 each and by the time they arrived they were 30 bucks.
Takes me back to my old camcorder servicing days, we were a sony repair agent, see you've got the official sony screwdriver!, i would probably have got shot not using the right fuse though!.
Well they are not easily available and a tiny wire will not cause any harm. It will melt quickly is something shorts out. I did a fan video today which had a bad thermal fuse in the motor and I had to take the motor apart to replace it. Naturally on an AC operated fan this is a critical safety component. In a camera its not a fire risk. I would not short it our with a big wire, but a thread like I used is going to act exactly like a fuse. After all what exactly do you think a fuse is? Its a thin wire that will burn out if the current exceeds its rating. That fuse was a 1.4 amp, so not that small. If it was a 30mA ICP then no, a wire will pass more than that, but for a 1.4 amp fuse this is fine. The costs to bring one in would be prohibitive because none of the local suppliers carry anything that small, and old scrap boards have mini fuses but nothing this size.
@@12voltvids yup, been there, at that age it's barely worth much fuss, just get it going so the customer can transcribe their memories onto a more modern format, actually the one's that used to amuse me were the customers who were into other activities when the machine failed, then you would receive a mangled camcorder where the tape had been extracted!, nuff said!, I'll subscribe for more stuff.
I wonder how the Amazon tape stayed intact? Or did you open it from the other side? Very interesting. Btw, that's theft about gift cards. Absolutely right, and I'd steer clear of those.
There will be a review posted. It isn't available just yet. They want me to publish between june 9 and 15, so I will have a complete review ready for the official launch. So you have a teaser now that really shouldn't have been shown early, but I was dying to try it..
What's worse than those teeny tiny smd fuses are those microscopic IC legs. I tried but don't have a steady enough hand to solder those things in place. Groan! 😒
Hey I have a question. I’ve got an old rca vhs c camera that has issues with the head. It stalls all the time and makes a horrible whining noise while spinning up. I’ve also got a Panasonic dv camcorder and the tape transport has a mind of its own. It tries to eject even when the door is closed. And when you try to eject a tape, it goes up and down a few times before opening. Would you know what could be causing my problems?
They never used to have that policy but do now. Same goes for bank accounts. If you look at the bank policy if you don't use your account for more than a year they can start charging you a dedicaget a count fee of up to $20 per year and what's the account drops to < $20 it just gets closed. Of course I have to warn you before they do that and I had such an account that I still have and it was one that I got when I was like 5 years old and I never used it and I got noticed from the bank that if I did use it they were gonna start charging me a fee just to keep the account active so I put $10 into it about of course that reset the clock for another year. Actually use that 1 now is that's the one my TH-cam money goes into which I keep separate from everything else. All of this c*** can be blamed on some of the former governments that we had here, We used to have for example for highest car insurance in the country now it's one of the lowest under the current government because the prior government allowed people to Sue for anything. You had people bumping another car in the parking lot and all of a sudden they were shooting for whiplash and getting lawyers involved and suing the public insurance company which then just jacked up everybody's rates. That was just one of many but there was all kinds of other user fees that were added that we never had before The gift card expiration is just another user fee.
I'm still using my original pair at work. Had them now 19 years. Not quite as sharp jurisdictions they still cut copper wire just fine. I'm sure they can be sharpened but not required yet.
I have a sony the same as you moded for cleaning head but mine will play recorded tapes fine but when i record with the camcorder the recording is all pixelated, how could i fix this?
If it plays existing tapes but does not record your video heads are worn. Very soon it will stop playing as well. First sign of worn heads is they will not play recent self recorded tapes but will play old ones fine. Another camera might play the newly recorded tapes just fine.
There is absolutely nothing good about the concept of gift cards. It locks the recipient into having to use it and having to use it at a specific place. Just give the person cash or a check. Never purchase gift cards. They are now a scam.
Those damned fuses are another reason why Technicians hate Engineers! If I ever wrote a book, it would be called "Why Technicians Hate Engineers!"
Its either these or the ic protector type that pop if you so much as look at them.
@@12voltvids Absolutely.
I love your videos, nothing I hate more than having to deal with those little Flex cables, sometimes it scares me that I feel like I might break them. You might think I'm a little peculiar, Electronics has kind of been a hobby of mine most of my life, I'm 67 now I was in radio repair in the military but I've always kept Electronics as a hobby. In my spare time for another hobby I like to Salvage components from equipment that is either thrown away giving to me or that I buy cheap. I have a real large collection of germanium diodes I have collected from old equipment. Probably over 700 of them. And of course all the other type of components that you could imagine. I have even salvaged some of those tiny fuses that you were talking about that you don't have. But I like your trick of just running a little strand of wire over them. I also have a quite a collection of laser diodes, from the red ones to infrared to ultraviolet, all different powers and different Style cases. Some of these were from DVD burners from computers to DVD players to Blu-ray players. I made little anti-static bags out of larger anti-static bags using a food sealer and have all the diodes in each individual anti-static bag and labeled as to what they are and what power they are.. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all this stuff . After moving from my house to this smaller two-bedroom apartment I just do not have the room to experiment like I used to. I have about six or seven helium Neon gas lasers with the power supplies to most of them, I even have a tiny helium neon laser from an old food checkout scanner from a grocery store. I've converted this into a portable helium neon laser pointer that's about a footlong in a plastic clear tube so you can see everything inside of it. It has the helium neon tube, the driver assembly in a small square copper pack, and then three 18650 lithium ion cells. It's not as convenient as the new pen sized laser pointers, but it's quite the conversation piece. I have a Sony Handycam with the night shot, it's the DCR TRV 310 made in July of 1999. I picked this up from the Salvation Army for about 20 bucks. It works good except I had it in storage for a little while, and playing with it now I've noticed that the zoom function sometimes works sometimes it's a little finicky. I'm wondering what do you think, do you think it's the actual Zoom mechanism sticking from not having been used in a long time or do you think there's something wrong with the switch contacts on the flex cable under the wide and telescopic button on the outside of the unit. I don't have any of the original batteries that are supposed to clip into the back of the unit but I did happen to come across about 7 batteries that can screw into the tripod mount on the bottom and they have an adapter cable to come out of them and plug into the power in slot on the back of the camera. I just use it like that for right now. When I got those batteries a while back most of them were dead but I opened up each one and replaced the 18650 lithium batteries in it with salvaged 18650 lithium cells that I got out of discarded laptop battery packs. Usually only one or two batteries are ever bad in one of those laptop battery packs and you're left with five or six good ones. I would go to a computer store, they would give me unrepairable equipment from desktops to laptops to the batterie packs and such. I was able to salvage about a hundred of those 18650 lithium cells and they're all in almost like new condition and I've charged them. Anyway those batteries I reconditioned work fine.These battery packs that I came across at a Salvation Army store are the Digipower DPS - 9000 7.2 volt Lithium-Ion. With the battery packs there was a charger with all the correct charging adapter cables and the connector cables to go to the camera. I figured I would save money and just use these since I have them. They're pretty good. they have a 5 LED battery indicator on the end of them with a little push button to test the charge status. Sorry for rambling, I just thought I would tell you about the Camera batteries that I have. What do you think about this TRV 310 with the night shot, do you think it's a fairly good camera. One last thing was that the camera came with the camera case and it even had the instruction manual with it. Well thanks for listening, take care, I really do enjoy your shows.
I hear you. I hate them too.
I never had a gift card drain itself. That idea was discussed back when gift cards became all the rage. There were threats of regulation by the US government if stuff like that were to happen, so AFAIK the entire industry backed off that kind of fuckery. Maybe things evolved different in Canada.
Apparently after 12 months they charge a service fee to maintain the account. That was according to the manager. I should have said sorry I only have this unopened gift card I don't have a credit card or cash.
Had a similar camcorder that would click the lens when connecting power and also whenever pressing any button on it. That turned out to be one of those fuses as well even though it wasn't "completely dead". Keep the videos coming!
I really like that super small tip.. looking forward to the "unboxing" and review.. I may need that one
This is a nice Digital 8 camcorder, it has passthrough mode and a very good built-in TBC, it can be used to digitize composite or SVideo analog video into rock-solid DV.
Yes they are. I use mine for that for when someone wants files in AVI format.
i would have digitize the customers tape before returning the camera incase postal service went postal
They have that option before it goes out.
I have a very similar camera. Just took it out of storage to re-burn my old 8mm tapes to DVD with the Sony DVD Recorder that you reviewed about a month ago and it worked perfectly. I was nervous because there was black flakes all over the place on my desk but was relieved when I realized that it was just the hand strap material shedding all over the place. Had to cut it off as I did not see any easy way to remove it and was not about to go down a rabbit hole trying.
If you look at my 240 you will see how I dealt with the flaky hand strap. I removed the faux leather part and left the nylon strap. You know so it can still be used. Someone donated a camera they had cut the strap off. I pulled parts to fix my 240 and tossed the rest.
@@12voltvids I'll have to check it out. Sounds like a great tip. I knew I would never need it though so I did not care personally. I would never record on that old dinosaur again. Thanks for taking the time to reply Dave.
I have just been watching one of your videos on this very camera model where you repaired a stuck iris. I have a camera with the same symptoms but on inspection the iris isn't stuck. There is no voltage to the motor. I have applied voltage to the motor and it operates. Zoom operates and everything else on on the camera works correctly. Have you seen this before or any ideas please Dave?
Is there a picture if you manually open the iris?
@@12voltvids Yes, the CCD is working and there is a picture. I removed the iris out of the slot to see if it operated but it appears that there is no voltage to it. Ribbon seems fine.
Alex over at northridge Fix has the fuses - all your needs solder microscope hotair station
Again a hair wire works every bit as well and I don't have to order parts. Keeping costs down is priority. If i order a part and request shipping by post but seller says eff it and ships fed ex and fedbex adds a 40.00 broker fee on that I have no problem passing on to customer then I am the one that looks like a crook. So I don't order in parts. If I can't buy them local then I am in a pickle because shipping has gotten out of hand. When we used to order parts from Sony they all came by mail and the shipping was a flat 3.00. Didn't matter if I ordered 1 transistor or 20 it was a flat rate. Digikey and mouser are criminal. Ordered 2 little switched for a dat machine. They were 1.50 each and by the time they arrived they were 30 bucks.
if that gift card practice comes to the USA, people are going to riot
Sorry Dave I just jinxed you with "It's dead Jim" :) Now the song is stuck in my head :)
You should have went to McDonald's and get ripped off with a happy meal.
Actually I could have gone there and got a full meal for 7.95. The place i went was over 25.00
Takes me back to my old camcorder servicing days, we were a sony repair agent, see you've got the official sony screwdriver!, i would probably have got shot not using the right fuse though!.
Well they are not easily available and a tiny wire will not cause any harm. It will melt quickly is something shorts out. I did a fan video today which had a bad thermal fuse in the motor and I had to take the motor apart to replace it. Naturally on an AC operated fan this is a critical safety component. In a camera its not a fire risk. I would not short it our with a big wire, but a thread like I used is going to act exactly like a fuse. After all what exactly do you think a fuse is? Its a thin wire that will burn out if the current exceeds its rating. That fuse was a 1.4 amp, so not that small. If it was a 30mA ICP then no, a wire will pass more than that, but for a 1.4 amp fuse this is fine. The costs to bring one in would be prohibitive because none of the local suppliers carry anything that small, and old scrap boards have mini fuses but nothing this size.
@@12voltvids yup, been there, at that age it's barely worth much fuss, just get it going so the customer can transcribe their memories onto a more modern format, actually the one's that used to amuse me were the customers who were into other activities when the machine failed, then you would receive a mangled camcorder where the tape had been extracted!, nuff said!, I'll subscribe for more stuff.
Saw plenty of mangled cameras and vcr where embarrassed customer destroyed the machine to get a tape out.
It's illegal to stale date a coupon or a gift card here in Alberta.
Your camcorder videos are my favorite
I wonder how the Amazon tape stayed intact? Or did you open it from the other side? Very interesting.
Btw, that's theft about gift cards.
Absolutely right, and I'd steer clear of those.
I opened it as you saw, cut the Amazon tape. The other side had the customer info on it.
Cool iron that I never seen lol !
There will be a review posted. It isn't available just yet. They want me to publish between june 9 and 15, so I will have a complete review ready for the official launch. So you have a teaser now that really shouldn't have been shown early, but I was dying to try it..
What's worse than those teeny tiny smd fuses are those microscopic IC legs. I tried but don't have a steady enough hand to solder those things in place. Groan! 😒
The ic not that bad but if it's gone that far nobody in their right mind will repair it.
Hey I have a question. I’ve got an old rca vhs c camera that has issues with the head. It stalls all the time and makes a horrible whining noise while spinning up. I’ve also got a Panasonic dv camcorder and the tape transport has a mind of its own. It tries to eject even when the door is closed. And when you try to eject a tape, it goes up and down a few times before opening. Would you know what could be causing my problems?
Luckily Australia does not have that gift card policy and they have a min 2 year valid time.
They never used to have that policy but do now. Same goes for bank accounts. If you look at the bank policy if you don't use your account for more than a year they can start charging you a dedicaget a count fee of up to $20 per year and what's the account drops to < $20 it just gets closed. Of course I have to warn you before they do that and I had such an account that I still have and it was one that I got when I was like 5 years old and I never used it and I got noticed from the bank that if I did use it they were gonna start charging me a fee just to keep the account active so I put $10 into it about of course that reset the clock for another year. Actually use that 1 now is that's the one my TH-cam money goes into which I keep separate from everything else. All of this c*** can be blamed on some of the former governments that we had here, We used to have for example for highest car insurance in the country now it's one of the lowest under the current government because the prior government allowed people to Sue for anything. You had people bumping another car in the parking lot and all of a sudden they were shooting for whiplash and getting lawyers involved and suing the public insurance company which then just jacked up everybody's rates. That was just one of many but there was all kinds of other user fees that were added that we never had before The gift card expiration is just another user fee.
HI.
Did you ever have to sharpen your snips? Or is it even possible?
I'm still using my original pair at work. Had them now 19 years. Not quite as sharp jurisdictions they still cut copper wire just fine. I'm sure they can be sharpened but not required yet.
Good video!
Anyway I can pay you to send in my Sony handycam trv-97 the viewfinder suddenly stopped working out of nowhere ?
Let me know I really like the viewfinder aspect but know nothing about soldering capacitors or anything I don’t want to have to buy another camera
I have a sony the same as you moded for cleaning head but mine will play recorded tapes fine but when i record with the camcorder the recording is all pixelated, how could i fix this?
If it plays existing tapes but does not record your video heads are worn. Very soon it will stop playing as well. First sign of worn heads is they will not play recent self recorded tapes but will play old ones fine. Another camera might play the newly recorded tapes just fine.
There is absolutely nothing good about the concept of gift cards. It locks the recipient into having to use it and having to use it at a specific place. Just give the person cash or a check. Never purchase gift cards. They are now a scam.
Agreed I never use them. I don't give them, but have received a few, usually from work.
The real solution is watch it on TV lot cheaper 😂😂😂😂
Lion messi!