Old Sony ccd-tr96 giving "warning"

[edee em]

I have a Sony CCD-TR96 camcorder that has developed a problem:

I start recording and within a minute the unit begins beeping and I see a
black, flashing triangle pointing up in the viewfinder. The owners manual
refers to this warning as "some other trouble has occurred" warning.

The unit is circa 1997 and I am a few generations behind, but if it
repairable, at a reasonable expense, I would like to do that to put it on
the resale market. Anyone seen this?

Thanks

Edee Em
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[Mystere]

Unfortunately, I think you have a bad LS Chassis on your camera. once
it gives you the error do you have problems getting it to completely
eject the tape? Most likely it is the chassis. They have had alot of
trouble with the ls chassis. Its an expensive part. Approx $80-100.
And you have tape path and back tension alignments alignments to do
once you replace it so it isn't really a user replacement item. sorry
for the news,

E


On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:03:39 -0500, "edee em" <emarano1@home.com>
wrote:

I have a Sony CCD-TR96 camcorder that has developed a problem:

I start recording and within a minute the unit begins beeping and I see a
black, flashing triangle pointing up in the viewfinder. The owners manual
refers to this warning as "some other trouble has occurred" warning.

The unit is circa 1997 and I am a few generations behind, but if it
repairable, at a reasonable expense, I would like to do that to put it on
the resale market. Anyone seen this?

Thanks

Edee Em
I know the truth is out there, but I like to stay in....

 

[James]

"edee em" <emarano1@home.com> wrote in message
news:rr92c.4332$n37.283656@read2.cgocable.net...

I have a Sony CCD-TR96 camcorder that has developed a problem:

I start recording and within a minute the unit begins beeping and I see a
black, flashing triangle pointing up in the viewfinder. The owners manual
refers to this warning as "some other trouble has occurred" warning.

The unit is circa 1997 and I am a few generations behind, but if it
repairable, at a reasonable expense, I would like to do that to put it on
the resale market. Anyone seen this?

Thanks

Edee Em
I know the truth is out there, but I like to stay in....

There were some Sony cameras around that era that had problems with
oxidizing contacts between the chassis & PCBs. Sony (here in Australia at
least) used to sell a grease to smear on the contacts before reassembly and
what do you know...it actually worked...I was surprised too. The symbol
youre talking about is a fairly generic error indication though, there are a
lot of other things it could be too. If it actually records video during the
first minute of operation before failing I would doubt it would be a
mechanism problem, that would be more likely if the error condition occured
during a change of mode.

James

 

[edee em]

"Mystere" <mystererc-spam-@cox.net> wrote in message
news:juhi40to0k5tdlg2oq3r4jq3de9kmf2457@4ax.com...

Unfortunately, I think you have a bad LS Chassis on your camera. once
it gives you the error do you have problems getting it to completely
eject the tape?

No, the tape exits no problem. Thanks for the input!




Most likely it is the chassis. They have had alot of

trouble with the ls chassis. Its an expensive part. Approx $80-100.
And you have tape path and back tension alignments alignments to do
once you replace it so it isn't really a user replacement item. sorry
for the news,

E


On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:03:39 -0500, "edee em" <emarano1@home.com
wrote:

I have a Sony CCD-TR96 camcorder that has developed a problem:

I start recording and within a minute the unit begins beeping and I see a
black, flashing triangle pointing up in the viewfinder. The owners
manual
refers to this warning as "some other trouble has occurred" warning.

The unit is circa 1997 and I am a few generations behind, but if it
repairable, at a reasonable expense, I would like to do that to put it on
the resale market. Anyone seen this?

Thanks

Edee Em
I know the truth is out there, but I like to stay in....