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Old 05-26-2016, 08:44 AM
RCAZenith RCAZenith is offline
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Originally Posted by Captainclock View Post
More than likely its a rebadged Panasonic VCR and Panasonic VCRs back then had an issue with bad capacitors in the power supply. I would check the power supply for some bad capacitors first, because its the easiest fix, I had a Magnavox VCR from the same time period that was a rebadged Panasonic and it had the same issue as your VCR is having and it turned out to be a couple of bad electrolytic capacitors in the power supply and so as soon as I replaced those capacitors it worked perfectly again.


Thanks for the reply. If I had the test equipment, id dive in. As it is, I may just keep it and give it to someone who can work on it.


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