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EEVblog 1602 – Sony Amplifier REPAIR ADVENTURE

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English - March 05, 2024 23:57 - 44 minutes - 938 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 79 ratings
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Repair of a Sony HCD-SBT20B Bluetooth Stereo. What it’s like to nail the repair and then, well come-a-gutsa and have to go down the rabbit hole to fix the fix all whilst battling bad design info. How VFD displays work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZIRPJt69sM Mud run video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAahT8_P-_E Tektronix autopsy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZCokbsTwmQ Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1603-sony-amplifier-repair/ 00:00 – Sony HCD-SBT20B Bluetooth …

Repair of a Sony HCD-SBT20B Bluetooth Stereo. What it’s like to nail the repair and then, well come-a-gutsa and have to go down the rabbit hole to fix the fix all whilst battling bad design info.



How VFD displays work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZIRPJt69sM

Mud run video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAahT8_P-_E

Tektronix autopsy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZCokbsTwmQ

Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1603-sony-amplifier-repair/


00:00 – Sony HCD-SBT20B Bluetooth Stereo with a water ingress problem

01:17 – Water isn’t that bad actually, even mud.

02:49 – Comically long screwdriver time

04:09 – Vacuum Fluorescent display for all you VFD fanboys

05:10 – Annoying construction

06:14 – Logic level problem? Doesn’t seem to be the PSU.

07:57 – Yuck!

09:58 – PCB Cleaning time

12:11 – Did the cleaning work?

13:28 – Hang on, I think I see something…

14:36 – More corrosion

15:21 – Back to measuring voltages on the VFD

17:15 – Handy use of Auto Hold

18:00 – VFD dispaly under the microscope

19:33 – Cathode measurement

20:13 – Anode connection tracing

22:10 – I wouldn’t have designed it like this

23:08 – Sanity check

24:32 – What’s in the can?

28:16 – Schematic time. Sony service manuals are something else

33:22 – Don’t come-a-gutsa on dual diode pinouts

35:16 – Let’s power it up on the bench

37:19 – There’s something very strange about this…

40:04 – Oh FFS!

42:03 – Now it’ll work…