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My Playmaker let out the magic dmoke one day. Turned out it was one of the filter caps in the power supply that exploded
It smelled a lot like smoke and the smell was not gone before a week. I can still smell something inside it.
Today I replaced both filter caps snd it looks like it is running again
My Playmaker let out the magic dmoke one day. Turned out it was one of the filter caps in the power supply that exploded It smelled a lot like smoke and the smell was not gone before a week. I can still smell something inside it. Today I replaced both filter caps snd it looks like it is running again
I have a BeoCord 6000 (VHS) that did exactly that while my wife was watching a video – there was a loud shriek as smoke poured into the living room! The smell just never went away so rather than replace the capacitor I simply took it to the recycling centre and replaced with a V8000 from my ‘store’. It’s not like me to dispose of something repairable, and I regret it to this day.
Whilst on the topic of the thread, I did find time to ‘refurb’ a couple of Beo4s yesterday, an AV and a SAT DVD version. I also did a quick audit of my B&O remote spares as you can see in the photo:
As I have said before, repairing Beo4s is not cost-effective: If you want to end up with a perfect screen, a keyboard that hasn’t had some of the rubber picked off (who would do that???!!!) and a battery cover with all the retaining lugs present then it’s a fool’s errand. In the past I have tried to fully restore every Beo4 that I come across but I can no longer get new DTV/DVD (non-navi) keyboards, so I may well start dismantling some for spares and swapping parts around more than I have in the past.
After fixing Beo4s I always leave them powered up overnight, and sure enough one of the two repaired ones had a fault that doesn’t appear immediately – the keyboard defaulted to DVD and then locked up after several hours. It’s probably a faulty contact foil, so I will replace that when I next have time.
Have a great weekend all! 😀
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I revisited the faulty Beo4 today. I tried to get away with just cleaning the contact points where the foil is clipped to the PCB, but I couldn’t get it to work reliably so I ended up fitting a contact foil that had been removed from another remote.
Whilst testing I used the following useful picture/diagram to test the remote and prove that it was the contact foil at fault. I got the diagram from one of Peter Pan’s excellent threads on the hifi4all forum here: https://www.hifi4all.dk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=78664&PN=1&TPN=9
(there are a few of my Beoworld photos in Peter’s thread so I guess that’s a fair swap of copyright, but the diagram may have originated elsewhere because Peter usually annotated his work in Danish)
As before, I’ll be leaving the Beo4 powered up overnight to see if it still works in the morning!
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I just noticed that the new screen (on the right) is a different colour, but clearer (especially when viewed from the side). All three have the contrast set to 04.
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As always, I am starting random DIY projects and this one *should* actually make it to the finish line in a few weeks. I have modeled up a clone of the A5/A6 CD rack! I am currently getting quotes made for the glass in both sizes like the originals. The end pieces will be 3D printed.
I am a huge CD listener and have a few hundred CDs that will be put on display in my new music room here at home. I plan on building at least four or five of these eventually. I like the idea of having a few groups of CDs to organize by genre instead of organizing alphabetically like I usually do.
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