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tapertom:
Howdy y'all!!!
Firstly..Does anyone know if the Sony D-10 ProII has a fuse inside of it that may blow?? I was using it to transfer some tapes to DAT and it just quit on me .No power!! I dont wanna rip it apart if it doesnt..

Secondly... Are there still any places in the Northeast USA that still works on DAT decks?? I have a few Id like to send out to be freshened up a lil bit....

THANK YOU@!!!  for any and all help kin these desparate times.....

tapertom

phil_er_up:
Check out this thread:
https://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=194818.msg2334544#msg2334544

rippleish20:
My D10 has a frozen transport. I opened it up and it's quite messy to work on. I gave up after like 50 screws  :banging head: I don't think the D10 has a fuse, it's likely the power supply. You might try a different AC adapter.

rocksuitcase:

--- Quote from: rippleish20 on August 10, 2020, 10:28:41 AM ---My D10 has a frozen transport. I opened it up and it's quite messy to work on. I gave up after like 50 screws  :banging head: I don't think the D10 has a fuse, it's likely the power supply. You might try a different AC adapter.

--- End quote ---
This old analog engineer guy thought Power supply as soon as I read your status report on it. I would suspect no fuses on the power circuitry.

DSatz:
I'm not sure which power supply you're using, but I suggest testing its output with a voltmeter before taking the D10's covers off. Since the D10 was always fed either by an internal battery or an AC power supply (either completely external, or else the kind that slips into the battery compartment), normally I would expect any fusing to be in the AC power supply itself. Otherwise the power supply wouldn't be protected from fire or shock hazard.

That said, why are you copying anything _to_ DAT at this point? It's a fragile, very unreliable long-term storage medium. If your sources are analog, I could understand using the deck to digitize them on a pass-through basis for storage on some other, more reliable and durable medium. But I just spent several weeks transferring all my old DATs to a pair of hard drives so that I could finally get rid of the DATs. It was very demanding, since I had to listen carefully the whole time; dropouts and gronches could occur at any moment. Some tapes couldn't be played back at all without audible errors, and I have four different decks including a TCD-D10 Pro prior to the II model--but to my surprise, a TCD-D8 gave me more reliable results.

Anyway, maybe you have some extraordinary reason to be recording on DAT, but if so, I'm really curious to know what it is. I was very glad to put the entire medium behind me for good, and to see someone say that they're recording _to_ DAT puts me in mind of the old ad campaign about how "friends don't let friends drive drunk."

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