"junius" wrote in message
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On May 12, 2:36 pm, "Clive" wrote:
Hi all
I have a Sony sw-77 and it appears to be acting up.
It seems to have a problem in the power dept, now I'm not sure if it's
because of the batteries, as I have cheap things in it at the moment, but
its still the same with the ac power supply fitted, it sort of crackles
and
goes quiet for a few seconds, then sometimes it sounds as if it drifts
off
frequency, but then it comes back again, it is an intermittant problem,
but
very annoying, any ideas anyone please
tia
Clive

A suggestion, if you've not gone this route already: Try posing this
question to the folks at the Yahoo SW77 group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SONYICFSW77/

Best of luck,

Junius

Hi Guys
Well, I sorted it out at last, quite simple really, I took it apart and
noticed that there is a block connector with about 8 or 9 wires running into
it near where the battery live terminal is. It had worked its way loose and
was only about half way on the connector at an angle, I simply pushed it on
the connector properly and now its working fine.
I found out that these wires from the connector run parralell with the
batteries in the same compartmant, they had come away from the sticky tape
stuff they use to hold them in place out of the way of the batteries, so
over time when I was re-newing the batteries the sides of the batteries were
pulling these wires downwards slightly, causing the other end where the
block connector is to slowly come of the connector. I put fresh tape on the
wires and taped them out of the way of the batteries, Everything is now
working perfect. I am glad to say. Its been running now for 18 hours without
a glitch :-))
regards
Clive