Canon Optura Pi Mini DV Digital Camcorder
Problem for Canon Optura Pi Mini DV Digital Camcorder

Optura Pi is eating tapes




By Jono on Apr 27, 2006

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at 45 minutes into a recording, the camcorder ate the tape. The unit was running on AC power, the tape was new. Placing another new tape into the camera results in an eject tape message and the tape leader is eaten by the camera.

The camera likewise ate a new cleaning cassette (dry type)

Solution #1

posted on Apr 30, 2006
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windman

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Rating: 77%, 891 votes
hi
from what i understand by "eat" is that the coil is popped out
what it means is that the coil leader is misplaced and letting it to run free out of place
this can be fixed by you if you will find what had gone wrong in that path (broken pin, cog etc...)
and glue it back or fix the missing element in place

good luck
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