Trust spycam broken

[Andre]

Hi group.

This is strange - after a readback my Trust Spyc@m 500F won't take
normal stills any more. Symptoms:- if you try, it beeps twice and the
"0" flashes.

It takes movies fine, and the "Live" function works.

I tried leaving it overnight with the battery pins shorted to see if
it would reset, no effect (looking inside, it has about seven 100uF 6V
capacitors and a single 470uF (presumably for memory sustain)

Anyone?

-A

 

[Jerry G.]

Do you have access to another one to find out if it is the software or the
camera that is at fault? I have seen these fail in various ways, and it was
not the caps. I used an ESR meter to check the caps, and they passed as
okay. I have also seen software being damaged for some reason, and a
re-installation fixed it.

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Greetings,

Jerry Greenberg GLG Technologies GLG
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"Andre" <testing_h@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2c2cf14c.0311290344.560379fb@posting.google.com...
Hi group.

This is strange - after a readback my Trust Spyc@m 500F won't take
normal stills any more. Symptoms:- if you try, it beeps twice and the
"0" flashes.

It takes movies fine, and the "Live" function works.

I tried leaving it overnight with the battery pins shorted to see if
it would reset, no effect (looking inside, it has about seven 100uF 6V
capacitors and a single 470uF (presumably for memory sustain)

Anyone?

-A

 

[Andre]

"Jerry G." <jerryg50@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bqa706$bo5$3@news.eusc.inter.net>...

Do you have access to another one to find out if it is the software or the
camera that is at fault? I have seen these fail in various ways, and it was
not the caps. I used an ESR meter to check the caps, and they passed as
okay. I have also seen software being damaged for some reason, and a
re-installation fixed it.

The fault happens with the camera disconnected from the PC as well.
I've tried a manual reset using a pair of pliers across the battery
pins overnight, no effect.

Its behaving as if the memory is always full (which is what it was
when I plugged it into the PC).

-A

--

Greetings,

Jerry Greenberg GLG Technologies GLG
=========================================
WebPage http://www.zoom-one.com
Electronics http://www.zoom-one.com/electron.htm
=========================================


"Andre" <testing_h@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2c2cf14c.0311290344.560379fb@posting.google.com...
Hi group.

This is strange - after a readback my Trust Spyc@m 500F won't take
normal stills any more. Symptoms:- if you try, it beeps twice and the
"0" flashes.

It takes movies fine, and the "Live" function works.

I tried leaving it overnight with the battery pins shorted to see if
it would reset, no effect (looking inside, it has about seven 100uF 6V
capacitors and a single 470uF (presumably for memory sustain)

Anyone?

-A