After recovering my E16 that was lent to a friend and returned in far worse condition than it left in....
I've discovered that the transport seems to have completely lost its mind.
When I power the machine on, and press any transport button, even the STOP button, the machine starts spinning the reels at very high speed as if it's going into a nearly out of control Fast Forward operation. The first time I powered it on and it did this, I had to actually cut the power to get it to stop.
After letting it sit for a couple of days, I decided to attempt to investigate a little further, and found that the machine does now at least STOP when I hit the stop button, but it is still just going into Fast Forward no matter which transport button I press (it stops when I hit the STOP button after any of the others).
So basically, no matter whether I hit STOP, PLAY, FF or Rewind, the machine only ever seems to do Fast Forward.
Also, I noticed that the capstan does NOT spin at all until I hit one of the transport buttons. Even when I lift both tension arms, the capstan stands still until I hit one of the transport buttons.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Could this be as simply as a capacitor that needs replacing or does it sound like the transport controller is totally blown, or?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!
I've discovered that the transport seems to have completely lost its mind.
When I power the machine on, and press any transport button, even the STOP button, the machine starts spinning the reels at very high speed as if it's going into a nearly out of control Fast Forward operation. The first time I powered it on and it did this, I had to actually cut the power to get it to stop.
After letting it sit for a couple of days, I decided to attempt to investigate a little further, and found that the machine does now at least STOP when I hit the stop button, but it is still just going into Fast Forward no matter which transport button I press (it stops when I hit the STOP button after any of the others).
So basically, no matter whether I hit STOP, PLAY, FF or Rewind, the machine only ever seems to do Fast Forward.
Also, I noticed that the capstan does NOT spin at all until I hit one of the transport buttons. Even when I lift both tension arms, the capstan stands still until I hit one of the transport buttons.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Could this be as simply as a capacitor that needs replacing or does it sound like the transport controller is totally blown, or?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated!