JVC GX 78 Vintage Video Camera Repair and Test 

Ah OK, I wasn't sure if it was you or someone before. I knew you had took the old fuse out.

@@nowt1002 I'm sure I left a 3amp fuse in it. Probably me who blow the capacitor I did get a burning smell from it I think.

Ah yeah, you're probably right

I'm using a Panasonic HDC-SD9 for the main camera and a Panasonic NV-GS500 for filming the scope. The HDC-SD9 is a bit old and is interlaced so I have to deinterlace the video for RU-vid but the main reason I use it is that it has a CCD sensor so I can film CRTs without it flickering. I've got this movable arm thing with a tripod mount on a ball joint on the end, the other end had a clamp that's attached to a shelf on the wall. That's what I use for the overhead shots. amzn.eu/d/hkT0JBw That's on the UK site but I would think it will be available on the .com one.

For capturing I'm using a usb device called Easycap. You have to be a bit careful buying those though as there are different versions of it available that look the same externally but internally are different. There are two versions of it that I'm aware of, one works well but the other isn't very good. The good one appears with the device name 'usbtv007' when you plug it in. I bought mine a few years ago now so I can't point you to one that's definitely the right one but when I bought mine I bought 4 or 5 of the devices and there seemed to be two price ranges on ebay, some were around £8-9 and some around £5-6, the two I bought of the higher price were good ones and the 2 or 3 at the lower price were bad. I don't know that this is definitely always how it works but I wouldn't buy the cheaper ones, I would probably ask the seller if they can tell you whether it's one of those usbtv007 ones and if you can return it if it turns out not to be. I don't use the software that comes with it, you have to install drivers for it but I can put them on google drive and send you the link if you do get one. I didn't use the software that comes with it, I use a program called Virtualdub which is much better, it is free software. And yes you are right, I am in Rotherham. Have you been back there at all? It's changed quite a bit over that time.

@@nowt1002 Thank you for that. I'll look into it. I went to Oakwood secondary school on Moorgate Road at the same tine James May did (not that I've had a TV since 1999). I lent him an electronics magazine in 1976...& never got it back! I did quite a lot of my electronics training at Rotherham Technical College. I remember getting 97.5% in one exam.....and then 54.5% in the exam covering motors. I used to go to see friends at Rotherham, though not go near town as I had on need or interest. Friends get married & move away & one (I was best man at his wedding) lives at Bramley but suffered a brain hemorrhage about 15 years & ago & his wife dutyfully looks after him, but he doesn't know or recognise anyone. HIs Wife suggested there was no longer any point visiting & she's right. I've a triple career as a church organist (pipe organs), church organ builder (pipe organs), & an electronics engineer specialising in 2-way radio. Strangely, much of my training was in video recorders.....and I love tube based cameras, hence looking at your channel. Richard, G0OJF. rshireby@yahoo.co.uk

The camera itself doesn't take a battery. It plug into a separate portable vcr, the battery is in the vcr and the camera takes it's power from that.

Same as a JVC GF-500

Hi sorry for the late reply. Yes that would be great. Can you send me an email to discuss it please nowt100video@gmail.com