[wannago]

Hi, I'm a newby on here so pls bear with me!?
I found a thread on here a year old and it was about this VCR. I have one of these which has been excellent,BUT I now have a problem, probably caused through my 20mth old grandson feeding it something!
Before I get into that, it would be wise for me to establish whether the 'Digital' on the front of the unit means it will receive the new digital transmission when they come to my area...does anyone know if this is the case?
Then, about the 'problem'..Everytime we load a tape or try to play/record, it runs for about 10 secs then stops and rewinds. It rewinds and forwards, fully. I looked at the controller and after setting it to come on auto it was showing 'CASS' instead of time to run. This seemed like an error code. Anyone know what it may mean?
Any help would be great...
cheers

[nvingo]

I'm not familiar with the VS660, but on the VS680 "digital" referred to a digital frame store used for perfect freeze-frame (pause) and other trickery such as zoom-in, oil-paint effect, mosaic and strobe.

It has a tuner purely capable of analogue reception, in fact I expect it predates the introduction of DVB-T (On Digital) broadcasts by several years.

CASS is Grundig's equivalent to Eject (which wouldn't display well on a 7-segment display) and means it wants to eject the tape - there is a jam/loading problem/no tape detected.

If the problem is solely caused by foreign matter in the cassette mechanism, there are two areas to investigate - only to be undertaken by someone competent/confident in VCR dismantling.
1. Sensors, there are several optical sensors on posts which simply determine whether there is black magnetic tape or clear start/end tape present. If these are contaminated the control logic will be confused and try to eject.
2. Mechanical. A drive-belt contaminated so it slips - meaning it is never able to reach the status expected by the controller so it throws a wobbly, or gears jammed or jumped out of sync resulting in the same.

It's possible the Grundig has what's known as a Panasonic G-deck which is quite a well-respected mechanism therefore probably familier to a service tech, should it be considered for repair.