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Fault: Free Sanity DVD Player

About 3 months ago Sanity had a deal where you bought 4 DVD's and they gave you a free DVD player. The player had a 90 day return to Sydney warranty. After about 90 days mine stopped working. Investigating I found that the

1000 microfarad, 10 VW electrolytic capacitor in the power supply was swollen. I replaced it and now all is well. Just yesterday I had the same thing happen on another of the same players. It looks like there was a faulty batch of capacitors. John
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Johnnyboy
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They probably knew this as well, which is why they bought them for peanuts and gave them away to get people into the stores.

-mark

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mark jb

Electrolytics and dry joints seem to be the most common trouble spots in electronic equipment !

Even though most items these days, especially DVD players arent really worth fixing these days, its still nice to have such a win :)

I even had a strange dream about faulty electros last night. In it - a manufacturer was advertising they had made their first electrolytic in 1948 and it was still working (in a vertical deflection circuit), and therefore theirs were the most reliable !

After this - Im starting to doubt my sanity - or maybe I have just been working too hard ? :)

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KLR

Have had a few where the brushes on the disc motor wear through and fail.

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Mark Harriss

"KLR"

** I saw a 5 watt valve guitar amp that was made in Sydney in 1948 just last week.

All the big red Ducon electros were just fine !!!!

Shame about the 10 inch *electrodynamic* speaker, but !!

............. Phil

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Phil Allison

they just don't make things like they used to

there is an old model film projector, a Bauer u3, from the late 50's to mid

60's. It has a 8uf motor start cap in it. Average usage is 6-8 starts a day, starting sequence takes about 10-15 seconds. They almost never fail.

Now defunct competitor made a new control board with new caps, some brand from Italy I have never seen. They seem to erupt in monumental fashion in about 5 years. So I replace them with one of the original caps from a spare control board.

Mark

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Mark Hathaway

Nah! Caps are probably OK, but underrated.

Very common in all cheap DVDs.

Rudolf

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Rudolf Ladyzhenskii

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Johnnyboy

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