Posted by Martin van derPoel on 10/29/06 02:07

Hi There,
I have had 2 TRV520 cameras (still have the last one)
Both had trouble with the ribon connector that connects the little flip up
keyboard to the camera. In all it was replaced about 5 times.
My symptoms were that the keys would not do what they were supposed to do
(fast rewind instesd of pause), at first this behaviour was sporadic but it
became more persistent as time went by,
I know of an other person with exactly the same problem but on a slightlyt
different model.

Have you tried swiveling the panel slowly whilst playing back to see if the
display comes good or at least changes its behaviour?

Regards,

Martin.





<dh@.> wrote in message news:if34k2tpdj7e2o67h6o11ceu5pb1n67gth@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:59:28 GMT, "Bill Farnsworth"
> <bill.farnsworth@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>> "Bill Farnsworth" wrote ...
>>>> The first place to start is loose or dirty connections.
>>>
>>"Richard Crowley" wrote
>>> True, but on those small camcorders those are likely to
>>> be those microscopic ribbon connectors that plug
>>> directly into the equally tiny "edge-connectors". Just
>>> disassembling and re-assembling the thing is something
>>> most of us wouldn't attempt without a service manual.
>>
>>Yep.
>>More the reason to suspect loose or dirty connections. :-)
>>Could be issues with the swivel point contacts,
>
> Where would they be? I don't want to dig into it too
> deep, but maybe it wouldn't hurt to take the viewer
> itself apart because it doesn't work anyway. Since two
> out of two of the cameras I've got developed the same
> problem without being abused or damaged in any way,
> I was hoping this would be a common problem that
> people would be very familiar with.
>
>>unless those little
>>cameras have small mercury switches for the LCD viewfinder
>>orientation.
>>
>>
>>Bill

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