XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   I don't think I posted abou this problem to SER before because it was   
   just a good story the lsst time but the new chapter starts at the   
   asterisks***  Giving the old chapter for the newly added ng.   
      
   Old chapter.  Bought a Kenwood DVDR, 3875 iirc with Hardrive about 2010.   
   Used it heavily, recording and watching abougt 3 hours each a day, plus   
   a lot of live watching, until 2024 until it broke completely, wouldn't   
   light up.   
      
   Bought another one just like it on Ebay, then opened the broken one.   
   Thought it was the power supply of course.  Didn't have a meter yet, but   
   looking and found a button, a little block button pointing up from a   
   1/4" square  (with rivets on each corner).  Just like Alice in   
   Wonderland or Dorothy on her trip to Oz, I was compelled to push the   
   button, and the DVDR lit up and seemed to work completely. nothing   
   mentioned about it in the owners manual or the wiring diagram or the   
   Repair manual for a similar device by Kenwood.  The button was labeled   
   Reset Sw.  and it did.  I guess they keep these things secret for a   
   reason.   
      
   ***So I'd installed the "new" one and I've been recording and watching   
   it for maybe 9 months when the picture and sound disappeared on what I   
   was watching, and on every other channel at the same time.  Came back a   
   few seconds later.  Repeated that a few times over the next day.  Then   
   went blank and didn't come back except for a striped red and black   
   screeen for a few seconds.  Then all black while the timer kept   
   recording three times a day.  They were all black too.  (I could still   
   play my prior recordigns and I have about 50 hours of them before I have   
   to put back the original DVDR.)   
      
   What does this indicate to you?  A failed part?  What kind of part?   A   
   cold solder connection?   Do you think I can find it by looking?  Where   
   a part is soldered in?   Or a broken trace?   Something else?   Do y ou   
   think there is a second push-button for this situation?   
      
   I don't remember if there is a separate tuner board, but I presume that   
   is the place to look the most.  It has both analog and digital but I   
   don't think I have analog to test it with.   
      
   New chapter.  Then today, I forgot that it doesn't work and turned it on   
   for the 5PM televison and it's been working fine for 30 minutes.  All   
   stations of course.  Does that change what you said two paragraphs up?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)