Posted by Steve Guidry on 10/03/05 15:47

I don't think it was dew or moisture. My best guess it that some belts were
slipping or maybe a component in the speed control section was
intermittently failing because of the heat.

Steve



"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
news:11jvplkue3ee04@corp.supernews.com...
> "Steve Guidry" wrote ...
> >I recently shot a VHS tape (no sneers, please) (grin) with my
> >ooooolllld
> > camera and its JVC RS-s411 dockable. The room was hot and humid.
> >
> > I didn't get a dew indication or shutoff, but periodically the camera
> > was
> > surging and then re-locking. This was accompanied by a picture
> > breakup and
> > re-lock on the video coming out of the video confidence spigot. This
> > is a
> > new one for me . . .
>
> Hot and humid doesn't necessarily mean trouble if the
> equipment was properly "acclimatized". But moving
> quickly between cool/dry and hot/humid is what causes
> condensation.
>
> Are you sure what you saw was condensation and not some
> other problem (like dirty/damaged tape path, etc.)?
>
> > Is there any way to defeat the auto-sensing speed control of a
> > playback deck
> > to minimize this problem ? (I'd like to play it at the same constant
> > speed,
> > and ignore the speed fluctuations on the playback.) And is this
> > likely to
> > accomplish a smooth playback ?
>
> Some of the specialty dubbing places might have rigged
> a tape deck to run at a ~constant speed and ignore temporary
> perburberances of the control track, but this might be a long-
> shot? Sounds worse than any normal TBC can handle.
>

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