Fault: Free Sanity DVD Player

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Johnnyboy

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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
 
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.
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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
 
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:36:34 GMT, "Johnnyboy" <Johnsjunk@dodo.com.au>
wrote:

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

Electrolytics and dry joints seem to be the most common trouble spots
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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 ? :)
 
Johnnyboy wrote:
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
Click to expand...

Have had a few where the brushes on the disc motor wear
through and fail.
 
"KLR"
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 ? :)
Click to expand...


** 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



"KLR" <kenreed1999@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:abpph15fbk8rbuss5s7d1i69su0fljudt6@4ax.com...
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:36:34 GMT, "Johnnyboy" <Johnsjunk@dodo.com.au
wrote:

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

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 ? :)
Click to expand...
 
Nah! Caps are probably OK, but underrated.

Very common in all cheap DVDs.

Rudolf

"Johnnyboy" <Johnsjunk@dodo.com.au> wrote in message
news:431cd65f@news.comindico.com.au...
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
Click to expand...
 
I would still say the caps were faulty. I replaced them with 10VW caps.
Similar to a group of motherboards in the last year or two.
Will see in 6 months how the replacements go.
John
"Rudolf Ladyzhenskii" <rudolfl@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:433fdea3$0$16823$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
Nah! Caps are probably OK, but underrated.

Very common in all cheap DVDs.

Rudolf

"Johnnyboy" <Johnsjunk@dodo.com.au> wrote in message
news:431cd65f@news.comindico.com.au...
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
Click to expand...
 
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