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 | | From: | Ray | | Subject: | Sony Handycam CCD-TR517 Won't Stay On | | Date: | 21 Jan 2005 06:36:48 -0800 |
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 | Hi, all ...
I have a Sony Handycam CCD-TR517 8mm camcorder. Playback mode is fine.
But in Record mode, I have a problem. I turn it on; it flickers,
shuts off, and restarts. Sometimes it keeps on restarting; sometimes
it is able to find its footing, and it stays on and is usable for at
least a while. Sometimes it will stay turned on, but as soon as I
press the red Record button, it starts doing this same
flicker-shutdown-restart thing.
Disconnecting and reconnecting the battery pack does not seem to make
any difference.
I think I may have done something to it by taking it outside during
cold and/or humid weather. But I have had it sitting inside, in a warm
and dry environment, for some weeks now. It should be pretty well
dried out and back to normal, no?
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| | From: | Gene E. Bloch | | Subject: | Re: Sony Handycam CCD-TR517 Won't Stay On | | Date: | Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:21:07 -0600 |
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| "Ray" wrote in
news:1106318208.441930.4940@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
> Hi, all ...
>
> I have a Sony Handycam CCD-TR517 8mm camcorder. Playback mode is
> fine. But in Record mode, I have a problem. I turn it on; it
> flickers, shuts off, and restarts. Sometimes it keeps on
> restarting; sometimes it is able to find its footing, and it stays
> on and is usable for at least a while. Sometimes it will stay
> turned on, but as soon as I press the red Record button, it starts
> doing this same flicker-shutdown-restart thing.
>
> Disconnecting and reconnecting the battery pack does not seem to
> make any difference.
>
> I think I may have done something to it by taking it outside
> during cold and/or humid weather. But I have had it sitting
> inside, in a warm and dry environment, for some weeks now. It
> should be pretty well dried out and back to normal, no?
>
>
I suggest trying to run it on its AC power adapter, if that can be
done on your camcorder. If that works, you might have a bad battery.
Otherwise you might have a bad camcorder :-(
Humidity is indeed a possible cause of what you see, but an hour or
two in (as you said) a warm and dry environment, much less some
weeks, is surely enough to fix that...
HTH,
Gino
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino) phone 650.966.8481
Call me letters find me at domain blochg whose dot is com
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