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The battery is more likely shot.I would check the caps and for burnt parts and bad fuses in the tuner and the VCR power supplies.
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Yeah I attached the battery to an external charger and it's totally dead. Good thing I can find substitutes though so I should be able to replace it. I have to pull the VCR apart anyways for a really good cleaning. Lots of fuzzies got inside from a cracked lid but the heads seem to be in good shape.
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I'm wondering how crisp is the image on the camera and any burn marks on the pickup tube from aiming it at bright lights.
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Tube is in great shape. No signs of image burn.
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I do believe that's a VGP170 portable VCR with the TFP1500 tuner. Made by Hitachi.
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Aha! That seems to bring up a few more valid results. Thank you. I got two other cameras who use this dumb EIAJ connector so I'll keep working on trying to get the VHS unit at least working. I tried powering it with 12V from the bench and current limiting immediately kicked in so something inside is definitely not happy.