RCA Selectavision...convertible?

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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.

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.

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.

Tube is in great shape. No signs of image burn.

I do believe that's a VGP170 portable VCR with the TFP1500 tuner. Made by Hitachi.

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.