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
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
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 ? :)
Have had a few where the brushes on the disc motor wear through and fail.
"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
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
Nah! Caps are probably OK, but underrated.
Very common in all cheap DVDs.
Rudolf
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