Thread: Dansette Viva
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Old 14th Jun 2019, 2:35 pm   #20
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Default Re: Dansette Viva

What a bodge!

The incoming mains lead enters at top left and connects to the double pole mains switch with a nasty kink in the live wire. The incoming earth wire is connected to what I assume is an additional tag strip for the pick up wires.

On the other side of the mains swich the neutral wire is connected to the deck?? via a blob of solder, but there's another bare wire on the neutral tag which appears to go nowhere. Perhaps it was intended to bypass a faulty pole of the mains switch?

Just to make it interesting the outgoing live wire from the switch has a green wire connected to it. Where does that go to?

The two capacitors are presumably meant to isolate the cartridge, but the soldering is very poor.

Personally I'd put the wiring back to how Dansette intended, fit a two wire mains flex and make sure it's correctly connected to a three pin plug.
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