StarDestroyer.Net BBS

I bought it a couple weeks ago really cheap, got an aftermarket adapter for it today, first time I powered it up, it worked fine, shut it down, left it to charge the battery. Then about an hour later it started turning on and off on its own, and would not stop until I pulled the battery and charger.

Now it will not even see the power button, it works perfectly except to turn it on I have to use the reset button since the power button no longer seems to work.

And the bastards at Sony will not give out any info on it, not even a manual.

Any ideas of what is wrong with the dumb thing?

Looks like you fried something with the aftermarket adapter.

You got a Sony... That says enough... (Can you tell that I'm never going to buy another consumer Sony product again?)

Beowulf wrote:You got a Sony... That says enough... (Can you tell that I'm never going to buy another consumer Sony product again?)

Sony's digital cameras really aren't that good. Their camcorders aren't bad and we have a consumer miniDV one that's been reliable.

Of course, I've also played with a DSR-PD150 and a DSR-200, both of which are very, very nice.

I *did* pay only $10 for it at the swapmeet, then $25 with shipping for the adapter...

Odds are I can get the power control circuit fixed/replaced cheaper than I could get another comparable camera for new. (probably still stay below $100 total)


And yeah, all indications point to a power control circuit failure of some type. It got really posessed for a while, then suddenly stopped being posessed (random on/off) but now the power button does not work at all.

Maybe someone has a dead Sony cam (smashed lens/screen, etc) that I could buy for really cheap to use as parts for this one (or vice-versa)?

Just played with it again. Charges properly now, but power control is *totally* stone dead. The only way it can be powered up now is by the reset switch and a paperclip, and can only be turned off by tricking it into retracting the lens and then pulling the battery.

My guess is if it was the aftermarket adapter alone that did this, that the rest of the cam would have cooked, this looks like just plain old something in the cam crapped out at a rather coincedental time.

Oh well, it will still serve my purposes, half of my "good" hardware is like this, random things wrong that I have to work around, even my car is like this. (Which reminds me that I need to have the #2 gear in the tranny checked at the 30K service)