Saving $$$ Repairing Our Audio Equipment -- Tascam 60d mkII | Level One Techs

We've got a pretty good audio setup now, but we like to move around. So we need something decent for capturing audio before it goes into the camera. Our main setup isn't super portable.



This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://level1techs.com/video/saving-repairing-our-audio-equipment-tascam-60d-mkii
8 Likes

"Slower than Christmas"
Pissed myself.

Thanks for the upload, nice surprise on a Saturday afternoon.

I'm really enjoying your "behind the scenes" type stuff and it's great to see damaged hardware getting reused.

3 Likes

I'm loving this channel. The behind the scenes kind of stuff is awesome!

I like this stuff, keep doing it.

Great job! Keep on doing what you are doing :)

@wendell if you use a glasfiberpen you can clean a lot of crap of a circuitboard and make copper trace accesseble for soldering again. using a lead wire of a broken component, like a resistor, wil give you a solid electrical and mechanical connection.

i like this type of video's, maybe you could ask for the community for video's or tutorials like this.

ps i no good in front of recording equipment, only when i am behind the equipment

2 Likes

2:28 : " If I'm wrong about that, let me know. Put a link in the description "

Has anyone asked for the password yet so they can edit the description?

:-p

This is the kind of videos that I enjoy. Keep it up guys. Great job.

Please do more video like this. I like fixing things and the more I learn the better I get.

1 Like

@wendell what camera and lenses are those???
I'm thinking of buying a g7

Yes! This video and a couple of the helpful forum replies is good stuff. I am not an EE like many of my friends who live 150 miles away in Austin, so soldiering on circuit boards is not normal stuff for me. I have a decent Hakko iron and have had to replace a voltage limiter on my swimming pool chlorine generator on the salt water pool. The board costs $400 plus and the wafer voltage limiter is like $5 for 2 of them shipped. I've done it twice now. Seeing videos like this will have me tearing into more shit that need fixing. Dig it.

1 Like

Yes I really enjoy these videos of the other side and hands on poking around. I was particularly excited when you mentioned surface mount, I need to fix a bunch of SMD resistors on a keyboard. So that was nice to see.

Looks good Wendel I tool enjoy working on electronics however I am more old school late 80 early 90 type component experience never user hot air looks cool. I have seen the toaster oven to flow surface tech. Enjoyed the video alway learn something new from your channel.

ferg

Nice to find a site like this to keep a 60+ year old SMT proto-typer / Engineering Test Technician engaged. I was the go-to guy when Design Engineering needing something "impossible" done. One such mission was to add a Real-Time-Clock to an existing design. Once I verified functionality at ambient, it would then be run at 175 Degrees C. (Yes, C.) The components below the processor form a discreet RS-485 circuit. The on-die parts of the day didn't play nice at 175 Degrees...

1 Like

Add another level of protection on the CHEAP... find a decent 3-foot USB cable with the appropriate genders, tie it around the tripod with a couple of granny knots, plug one end into the camera.
Then whenever you need to to plug or unplug the USB power, you plug into the free end of the cable. A few dollars keeps 100% of the wear and tear away from the Tascam.

MOAR

this is like Scrapheap Challenge but for the electronics and computing community