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[LD-V8000] Player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
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Author:  limeibook86 [ 17 Oct 2011, 02:22 ]
Post subject:  [LD-V8000] Player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
So I recently picked up three LD-V8000 players for a total of $60. Sadly neither of them work too well.

One of my players will accept a disc and not try to auto play. It will instead pause. When I press play on the unit or a remote it will not play. It just sits there. I think maybe the board/wires for the buttons or IR sensor are bad, but then again the Eject button works just fine.

The second player will take it's time, then play, but it spits out a black & white image with garbled audio that stutters. Almost like a bad PAL image or something.

But finally is the player that doesn't turn on. When I was sold the player I was told it was the fuse, but who knows. I looked inside and by the power cable there is 1 fuse. But then there are like 4 or 5 other fuses. So I don't know which one to touch or what to do. It could even be something more serious... but I thought if anyone had any ideas on this player (or the two noted above) I'd appreciate the help. :)

-Steve
Author:  vinylcollector [ 17 Oct 2011, 03:07 ]
Post subject:  Re: LD-V8000 player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
That was an issue I had with my Pioneer cld-52 with a fuse blown. You can't always tell looking at them, or can be hard to see especially the tiny fuses.

If you have someone knowledgeable with a ohm's voltage tester they can check your fuses that way to see if one is gone. (which is what I did with mine)

If it's a press in fuse that is easy to replace. Some fuses though are soldered in ones, and you might have to take it somewhere for that. If that ends up the case that it's just a soldered fuse gone.....ask the cost first. (going by what mine cost)
Author:  limeibook86 [ 17 Oct 2011, 03:10 ]
Post subject:  Re: LD-V8000 player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
It thankfully looks to be a snap-in fuse. When I have time (who knows when that will be) I may open it up again and take a look. All of the players had a school label on them. Lord knows how many years they may have been used or abused. There may be a reason why these three were given to the seller I bought them from, maybe they're all busted. :p But I will see if I can pickup some fuses for it. Maybe this one just might work.

Thanks for the advice!
Author:  yazorin [ 18 Oct 2011, 02:17 ]
Post subject:  Re: LD-V8000 player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
save them if u can, we have to keep as many players alive as possible :P
Author:  rixrex [ 18 Oct 2011, 04:55 ]
Post subject:  Re: LD-V8000 player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
The one that pauses, does it actually show a pause symbol, or is that the same as the stop symbol? Does it show anything on the display at all? Normally, pause is with the disc spinning, and stop means it isn't spinning at all. I had that same model long ago with a similar problem where it would close and sit there, not play and then other times it would play, and it turned out to be the clamping mechanism not engaging tightly, and I think there was a bad belt too.

Those players were always slow to spin up to speed, and they have a pretty industrial build to them. The second one sounds like it's not up to proper RPMs. Does it do the same thing at both the start and end of the disc? Or is there some variation between the two? Maybe the disc is slipping? Normally, you'd think the player would just quit and not play if not properly tracking the discs, but these players may have not been designed to do that.

The one that doesn't power on, if you get someone who can do a continuety test on the fuses with an ohm-meter, perhaps they can also check to see that voltage is getting to the initial fuse as well. In other words, make sure there's no a defect in the cord or power connection.

Even though they came from a school, they may not have been used a lot, but the looseness of belts or a slipping clamp device is common due to age, etc. I don't recall if they have an hour-meter on the back, like many industrial Sony's did. If you get any one of these operating properly, them you'll have a heavy-duty machine with an excellent picture, great speedy search capabilities, optimal audio playback track selection, and just everything that's useful except side change.
Author:  limeibook86 [ 18 Oct 2011, 14:31 ]
Post subject:  Re: LD-V8000 player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
Thanks for the ideas!

About the one that accepts and a disc and doesn't play. I don't think it spins up at all. The play button was pushed in too much, but even after removing the button and pressing the button on the circuit it won't go. The remote won't let it play either. So it may be a clamping issue. That's a good thing to look for.

The one that plays but in Black & White does make an odd sound, so I may take the top cover off and watch what happens. For all I know something is caught in the machine.

The back doesn't have an hour meter or a counter of anykind sadly. I don't know when I'll have the time (I'm moving soon) but I'll try and take another look and see what's going on with them. At least the LD-V4400 (1997 model) I picked up is a bit newer and seems to have similar features as the LD-V8000, and most importantly it seems to work just fine. :)

Thanks! I'll keep you all updated.
Author:  publius [ 18 Oct 2011, 18:31 ]
Post subject:  Re: LD-V8000 player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
The hour meter is an on-screen display. It can be accessed through the setup menu, as detailed in the operation manual, which (as luck would have it) can be obtained through LDDb.
Author:  limeibook86 [ 18 Oct 2011, 18:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: LD-V8000 player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
Thanks! I'll try to access this with my Logitech Harmony Universal Remote. Obviously with the player that won't turn on I can't try this, but I'll try! The manual helps greatly :)

-Steve
Author:  krbahr [ 19 Oct 2011, 00:05 ]
Post subject:  Re: LD-V8000 player issues - won't turn on, possibly a fuse?
A few things about the LD-V8000.

One the tray and on the bottom lip on the face you will see a rectangular slot. You need to look in that and you will see what looks like a strange fuse type object. It is a power hour meter, you will see 10 notches, each being 1,000 hours and there will be a grove on the middle silver metal line and that moves as the unit is powered on if you cannot see the grove then the unit has been power on for over 10,000 hours. The counter in the menu can tell you actual play hours.

Now this machine has a lot of menus. With the player OFF press and hold in the "DISPLAY" button and then press the power button while still holding display in. This will bring up a menu with pages of various options. Scroll thru them and check the settings.

Now for #1 from what you said I would actually swap the front panel of #2 if it has a bad laser or #3 if yiou just cannot get it going with this one and see if it just had stuck keys.

For #2 sounds like a weak signal from the laser. I have seen an electrolytic cap on the main board on the bottom of the player go bad and kill the signal, if that is not it then the laser is probably just worn out.

For #3 there is a main fuse and then a fuse for the separate voltages. You really need to check the output voltages to see it they are good. You can always swap this out with one of the other players. I doubt it is a fuse.

Kurtis
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