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26th Jul 2020, 10:12 pm | #1 |
Hexode
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"Television" 1999 VCR Soak Tester
Hi - in the August 1999 edition of "Television" magazine there was an article by Ian Rees entitled "VCR Soak Tester". It was a constructional project, with the hardware interfacing to a universal remote that cycled the VCR through a sequence of actions, and recorded the nuimber of cycles on an electro-mechanical counter.
I wonder if any Members actually made this tester, and how useful they found it in practice? The article is attached below for interest. Cheers Chris |
26th Jul 2020, 10:19 pm | #2 |
Nonode
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Re: "Television" 1999 VCR Soak Tester
I never personally built it although I did read the article at the time, quite a few late model vcrs by then had taken a leaf out of Philips book and provided a fault/error code menu.
It was a little bit late to the game IMHO.
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30th Jul 2020, 9:03 pm | #3 |
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Re: "Television" 1999 VCR Soak Tester
Hi - thanks for taking the time to respond to my post about the VCR tester, it's interesting to get a view from someone who was in the Trade at the time, not being a TV/VCR man myself.
The reason that I enquired about the project is that I happen to have the designer's proto-type that he refers to in the article, having bought it on EBay about 15 years ago. I fired it up this afternoon, (after replacing the 13A mains fuse with something a little more appropriate!) and it is still in working order. The cycle counter is showing around 17,000 although I don't know if he ran it from zero or reused one with a considerable mileage in this project. An interesting historical artifact, but I think I will probably pass it on to someone who may actually use it one day. Cheers Chris |