Some weeks ago I bought a big fullsize camcorder on Ebay. The seller stated it was working and I could get it for 50 bucks, so I thought it would be worth a try.
I was already a bit suspicious about the condition, as the price was a bit too low
So it arrived here and yep - it was broken. The camera would start up, but needed a time of 10 to 20 seconds to show a picture in the viewfinder. When I tried to record something with it, the picture got garbled.
So i opened up the camera and found 67 leaking SMD capacitors and 5 leaking normal capacitors! I already replaced all of them on one of the boards and hopefully this thing will work as a charme again when I am finished. I have never done such a thing before, but I learned a bit of techniques for soldering from Youtube. So i bought PCB cleaner, tweezers, magnifiers and started going!
In case of somebody finding this thread on Google and having the same camera lying at home, I will note down all of the capacitors that have to be replaced.
The SMD capacitors are:
22x 22/6V
9x 10/16V
3x 47/16V
9x 47/6V
8x 100/6,3V
2x 2,2/50V
6x 4,7/35V
1x 22/35V
1x 3,3/50V
1x 10/35V
1x 0,22/50V
3x 1/50V
1x 33/4V
I couldn't get the 33/4V capacitor, so I had to buy a 33/25V one. And the 0,22 capacitor was very hard to get. Nowhere I found a SMD version of it, just a normal black and long capacitor, which isn't even Low-ESR. So I hope it works.
And the "golden" capacitors on the boards where also leaking, here are the values:
3x 220/16V
2x 330/10V
They where easy to get. From all of these caps I bought some more and I got away with 20 bucks, so I think thats a good deal as a local repair shop here stated that they can't repair the camera anymore because a lot of the parts are no longer available. A lie - I guess they where just to lazy to replace the bunch of caps in there
I will attach some pictures from the leaking capacitors and from the board I already recapped today. It's the memory controller of the camera, so I guess the record function could be working right now if I would test it. But a half-done job is not a well-done job, so I won't.
As progress on this camera continues, I will post more.
I was already a bit suspicious about the condition, as the price was a bit too low
So it arrived here and yep - it was broken. The camera would start up, but needed a time of 10 to 20 seconds to show a picture in the viewfinder. When I tried to record something with it, the picture got garbled.So i opened up the camera and found 67 leaking SMD capacitors and 5 leaking normal capacitors! I already replaced all of them on one of the boards and hopefully this thing will work as a charme again when I am finished. I have never done such a thing before, but I learned a bit of techniques for soldering from Youtube. So i bought PCB cleaner, tweezers, magnifiers and started going!
In case of somebody finding this thread on Google and having the same camera lying at home, I will note down all of the capacitors that have to be replaced.
The SMD capacitors are:
22x 22/6V
9x 10/16V
3x 47/16V
9x 47/6V
8x 100/6,3V
2x 2,2/50V
6x 4,7/35V
1x 22/35V
1x 3,3/50V
1x 10/35V
1x 0,22/50V
3x 1/50V
1x 33/4V
I couldn't get the 33/4V capacitor, so I had to buy a 33/25V one. And the 0,22 capacitor was very hard to get. Nowhere I found a SMD version of it, just a normal black and long capacitor, which isn't even Low-ESR. So I hope it works.
And the "golden" capacitors on the boards where also leaking, here are the values:
3x 220/16V
2x 330/10V
They where easy to get. From all of these caps I bought some more and I got away with 20 bucks, so I think thats a good deal as a local repair shop here stated that they can't repair the camera anymore because a lot of the parts are no longer available. A lie - I guess they where just to lazy to replace the bunch of caps in there
I will attach some pictures from the leaking capacitors and from the board I already recapped today. It's the memory controller of the camera, so I guess the record function could be working right now if I would test it. But a half-done job is not a well-done job, so I won't.
As progress on this camera continues, I will post more.
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