JVC DR-M10 turning off randomly?

[sesselmarder]

Hi all,

I have the PAL version of the JVC DR-M10 for many years and it worked perfectly.
Lately when copying VHS tapes to DVD, the recorder turns itself off after a period of time.
Typically this happens after 10-20 min of recording. For a few seconds I see "Loading" in the display and the recorder turns off. Sometimes it runs longer and sometimes the complete movie gets recorded.

Could this be due to overheating?
I opened it up and noticed that the box to the right of the DVD drive gets very hot.

Any help or suggestion is highly appreciated!

Thanks, Dan

[lordsmurf]

Caps are going out.
Quite a few posts about this, in this very subforum, going back 10+ years. Search for those.

Most recent post, links to other posts: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vcr-...html#post70059

[sesselmarder]

My JVC DR-M10 turned itself off after a period of time. This time shortened more and more, in the end it turned it self off after just a new minutes.

After Lordsmurf suggested that the caps are going out, I replaced all caps and installed new good quality ones.
The unit started up nicely, so I think I installed everything correctly.
BUT: the problem is still there... Unit is turning off after 30 mins... :-(

Does anyone have any other suggestions what could be the problem?

[lordsmurf]

Exactly 30 minutes?
What is the "power save" setting set to?

[sesselmarder]

No, not exactly 30 mins. It varies between 15 and 30 mins.

Another note:
My unit is currently open and an external fan is running to keep the interior cool. Problem persists.

The power save was set to ON, since I changed the caps.
I am now running another test with power save OFF.

-- merged --

This time I tested with power save OFF:
The unit turned itself OFF after 27 min.... sigh :-(
To be exact, the unit re-boots and continues to record....

I replaced all caps on the power board, was I also supposed to replace all resistors??

-- merged --

More test results....

I bought a new JVC DR-M10 online which had a broken DVD drive. I replaced all caps on the PSU on the new machine.

I installed my old DVD drive in the new DVD recorder:
--> Recording stops after 20-21 mins. SAME ISSUE.

I started to believe that my DVD drive went bad...
I therefore ordered a Sony DVD drive DRU-842A online. Someone posted in another thread that it would work.

So I installed the Sony drive in my old DVD recorder. To my astonishment, the machine accepted it and it was able to read DVDs and even format them. So I started a recording:
--> Recording stops after 20-21 mins. SAME ISSUE!!

Then I installed the Sony drive in the new DVD recorder.
--> Recording stops after 20-21 mins. SAME ISSUE!!

How can 2 completely different DVD recorders behave EXACTLY the same with 2 different DVD drives??
This is starting to drive me crazy....

Plus:
The DVD recorder stays ON indefinitely without issue. BUT only when I start recording it shuts down after 20-21 minutes?
And why does it shut down at almost the exact same time??

[lordsmurf]

Same RW disc being used?
Same R/RW spindle of discs being used? What is the MID, brand?

Bad cap overheating after 20 minutes?