how to change the target light on a Technics SL MK2 part 5

[@ReggaemanGR]

I took a used mk2 for about 300euros and thanks to you i made it like brand new. I regulated the loosy fader, changed the cables, the power switch, the burned pop up light and cleand the plater!!! you are the best of the best!!! the best tutorials ever made on youtube!!! thanks!

[@Channels0v3rTim34Y0u]

Sold my pair today and just found out from the buyer about disassembling the entire machine just to change a bulb. Interesting, but with patience & proper tools & accessories it looks very simple.

[@DrumInfected]

Viperfrank you are truly one of a kind and brilliant at giving tutorials! Your tutorials are the best and are better than any other tutorials I've seen anywhere. All of your vids have everything, from being full of all the information you could possibly need and even humor, you are the man viperfrank, thank you again! I'm going through the process of fixing numerous things on 2 of my turntables and you are the person guiding me through the way.

[@camojunglist1485]

I salute you sir! A whole day of watching your video's has been epic, i now feel like i can truly look after my 1210's, and as long as parts are made, will have them for life. "Give a man a turntable and he can dj for a while, teach a man how to service a turntable and he'll dj for life" Nice one bruvva!!

[@drexciya2]

Top Man. This is by far the best video on KZbin. Thanks for sharing. 😊

[@punkdad]

This is a very detailed video and I wanted to thank and congratulate viperfrank for taking the time to do it. I own a MK5 so my turtable already is LED-equipped but I watched the whole thing through; I need to swap the dead LED in mine... Awesome work, thanks again.

[@4evaclapham]

I don't have a Technics and do not intend changing the target light, BUT !!....I enjoyed every bit of your informative video's, and learned a few things along the way, even a brain damaged baboon would be able to accomplish this task thanks to your excellent tuition. well done mate !!

[@ralphables1988]

Just finished this project and it actually worked like a charm!!! Learned to solder as I went. You have no idea how excited I am by this! Thanks, James. You rule! Now if I can just figure out how to fix my tonearm lift mechanism... LOL. Seriously, though, thanks a million. Great videos and great work.

[@intotheblue50]

Your five part video is really well done, brill. When joining wires they can spring apart and solder can be flicked at your face. Any cheap pair of safety glasses from Wickes say are worth wearing when soldering. You are very good at teaching James I've learned a lot from many of your videos on so many subjects you cover. Be nice to your cat mate. I've have subscribed.

[@LcbUK181]

Great vids mate! Just finished putting in the LEDs and changed the audio cables, and ive never held a soldiering iron in my life before today. Cheers

[@geoptus]

thanks for another awesomely detailed tutorial series (8 years later, still relevant!), just bought a pair of SL1210 Mk2s and one target light is blown so this will help me do the work to change them (both to match) ... ...I'll probably also do the strobe mod too !! so yeah, cheers mate - nice one

[@superdubsolo]

James you are a legend. Absolutely clear instructions and quality video gives me confidence I can do this. Gonna completely refurb a 1200 deck with your vids. Cheers.

[@johnbateman4255]

Just picked up this record player for £5 from a carboot. The light you described is the same one that is not working on mine. Very good explanation. Thanks.

[@Stick0rz]

Changed both on my Mk 3's and it worked perfectly! Thanks for the great tutorial!

[@viperfrank]

@nathancrumb1 it depends on the value but here is what you do the order code is M- and the value of the resister, so for example if you had a 68 ohm resister the code would be M68R if it was a 200 ohm resister than thats M200R if you have a 47 killo-ohm resister thats M47K. the resister i used, if your using the same led as me was a 68 ohm resister M68R. hope this helped and thank you for your comment. nice one!!!

[@zruokari]

nice work mate, best tutorials around imo.... i could listen to you talk shop all day!

[@urbanvibration]

Nice one, great video again! £3.50 from Maplins did both decks for me today. One related tip - while you've got your lamp out you could take the plunger out and regrease it with Tamiya Friction Damper (Hard) grease. Gets it back to that factory slow pop-up.

[@estata12]

Areet mate ! A changed me lights following your vids,and they work a treat!...must say you did a cracking job with your video and its well appreciated ,cheers

[@viperfrank]

@gtorres44 now thats what i like to hear, im glad it worked and thanks for your feed back. im loving mine since i did this, its so much brighter, if only technics decided to do this in the first place and just charge an extra £5 on top, id happily pay that extra £5. thanks again for your comment. nice one!!!

[@djsherwinryan]

awesome guide --thanks for putting out such a detailed video --the last time I tried replacing that pop up light on my own shorted the circuit board--cant remember what stupid thing I did wrong. This video will definitely help me to do it correctly.

[@cammykaren]

Thanks, both decks upgraded and also changed the audio cables at the same time, great tutorial and im a total novice but still managed it.

[@GGarcia7111]

I am doing exactly as Franks instructions. I did it before just using eBay's cheap ass kit. That light only lasted brute for a few hours now they are verily on I thought the LED had dropped in the tube. So I reset it and I realized the led is almost dead. I will do this mode. I got all the right parts. Had to watch the vids like 5 times each vid. Thanks Frank. And people stay away from eBay's targets LED target kit

[@GGarcia7111]

Just finished mine. And thank you Frank. I watched your vids over and over again. The challenging part was selecting the resistor but following your advice It was a success. Thanks again. !!! I will post a link tomorrow 👍😀👊

[@sesvid]

Cool video, nice one Frank👍 One suggestion from my side. The regulator you're using has a grounded chassis ones it is fixed with the screw to the plate. The plate itself is also grounded. This means that it is not necessary to solder two wires to the ground pin on the regulator. One can also just solder the ground wire for the LED to the ground pin of the regulator. The ground for the power supply will the go through the chassis of the regulator and the metal plate it is fixed on. 😉

[@sarahg8685]

Hi James, thanks you so much for all your tuts. They are so helpful for my friend and now his technics turntables has blue LED lights too. Without your knowledge he had couldn´t do this. Have save your channel here. Thanks a lot!

[@toomanyprojectstx]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for all these tutorials,I've learned and gained so much from watching these. well done!!

[@machiasman]

Awesome video, thanks so much for it. You explained the whole process extremely well. I put a new LED in an old 1200 Mk2 yesterday, my first ever soldering project. Worked great, and self-grounded it while I was at it as well.

[@thebigd298]

Thanks for all your videos. I've just re greased my tone arm height adjustment. You save me alot of money. Thank you.

[@djdfunkdoan]

Excellent tutorial! I did this mod and it worked great. I find you need at least a 5000 mcd led. Lots brighter than the stock bulb.

[@nikmak]

I could spend all day watching your videos. Absolute legend. Thanks!

[@selwynandrews9665]

Thanks James, always enjoy your videos. Great work as usual.

[@viperfrank]

@section23promotions no problem thank you for your comment and your feed back. nice one!!!

[@JonathanFernandezjohnbarsik]

worked perfectly! I used LM7805T and LED 3mm ULTRA white 4000mcD, everything went fine ! thanks a lot!!

[@viperfrank]

no worries. that brilliant, I'm glad it all went well, it's nice to hear when people have success following your tutorials, it makes all the work that went into the video worth while. glad to hear it, and thanks for your comment.

[@JonathanFernandezjohnbarsik]

yeah thanks again! I saved a lot of money and learned a lot! my turntables are 0 Km now! oh, and I used 100 ohm resistor because I didn't know the continuous forward current of my led. I used the led calculator repleacing for 20 (mA). Also the cable of an RJ45 worked ok.

[@bobreakz]

Great tutorial Frank! I did the same to my Stanton Turntable using 5mm colour changing LED instead and I have great result. Althought target light for stanton is build in different way,doesn't have resistor and takes only half voltage (12v) I have follow all the steps and it works. I have ordered my LEDs from Proto-Pic which don't require resistor at all, so with 2 voltage regulators my upgrade costed only 5£ and was much easier :) Wish I could find brighter lightbulb, mine is 3000 mcd but it's colour change cycle it's really eye-catching.

[@todaysbestmix]

I have bought all my parts and waiting for them to arrive. Looking forward to replacing the lamp on my time of work. Hopefully it won't take all week, lol! The original lamp does not work but it is not burnt out or black, so hoping everything will be OK when I do the job. Cheers James :-)

[@happyvibes1]

Nice 1, look forward 2 it, thanks 4 ur time and effort u put into ur vids, saved me and no doubt hundreds of others alot of money, top gezzer!

[@viperfrank]

@vladnyrki Thank you! I will be doing a video on this, I will cover where to get the LED and the type of LED to get. Also your writing was fine, I understood all of it. Thanks for your comment and your kind words. Nice One ; )

[@viperfrank]

@DunksterP Oh have they, ah maplin are a pain in the arse sometimes. you should have no trouble getting LEDs form eBay. Thanks for your comment and your feed back. Nice One ; )

[@oswaldclarke6247]

You are very straight forward no if or buts very eddifing thanks for the lesson sir

[@GGarcia7111]

Best series of vids on how to. On all Technics 1200 related Thx mate

[@saritdjx]

thank you for your effort and hard work on this tutorial and other Technics repair videos. really helpful!

[@rickythewolfe]

Truly awesome video, I learned so much from it you have no idea, you covered all the bases and then some. I can't wait to run into Radio Shack tomorrow and grab everything I need. I have a little twist on the LED's though, I'll see about making a video response to illustrate when I get it done. Thanks again

[@MrNowBru]

Dudeeee... sorry if i sound gay.. buy I LOVE YOU .. I learn so much.. looking your video mate ! THANKS SO MUCH SERIOUSLY !

[@alfredpagniello1203]

thank you bro, you explained it very well , and i allready did 3 tt, mods for customer, made some cash for the weekend .. keep up the good work ,

[@thelaidbackrunner]

thanks so much. I've watched loads of your videos now, and they're all excellent. thanks!

[@djzi9za9]

Thanks for the video, great job explaining the details of the process. My Red LED's are not glowing brightly, is it possible that the I have used the wrong resistor? Thanks in advance for your help.

[@elifan2523]

You're the man, YOU ARE THE MAN!!! Thanks a lot for bringing new life to my deck, it looks fresh!

[@tough213]

Hello there I was wondering if this would work for the audio tecnica at-pl120 turntable as well with no issues this was a great 5 part video you did thank you very much have a very happy holiday season and happy and healthy new year

[@viperfrank]

@mikeg123 wicked, you should be fine, good luck. thanks for your comment. nice one!!!

[@true_visual]

You are fantastic! Can you do a "how to" video about the pitch LED too? Also, do you recommend getting rid of the ground cable by soldering it to one of the other two grounds of the red white cables or not ? In general, make videos, we love them!

[@ntintini]

Great explanation my friend.Good project.I have seen several videos of yours!Great work mate!Thanks for this useful use of time.

[@MrManuelEl]

great and useful videos. I am Italian and my turntable running at 220v these components also work on my own? there are changes to be done. thanks very kind

[@deathanator]

Nice one!.. One of my target lights hasn't worked for years, going to change both of them soon for LED's thanks to your guide... Just 1 thing, I would of thought it would be better to use a flex rather than a single core wire for the connection to the target light assembly as it's frequently being moved... so just wondering why you recommended single core?.. Anyway thanks again for the guide.

[@viperfrank]

@BPMgear Thank you for your feed back and kind words. Sure, I did a video on how to service the height adjustment, that will show you how to safely take the tone arm apart, the bits you can take apart anyway. I wouldn't take the Gimble apart, there are lots of tiny bearings inside there and you need specialised tools to do the screws up to a specific torque, or the tone arm will never work properly again. That video will help you take it apart safely. Thanks again for your comment Nice One ; )

[@zruokari]

@viperfrank - What about doing a video on what to check and look for when buying second hand Technics? And maybe a point by point checklist on setting them up perfectly? You should def do more videos!

[@SDsailor7]

Thank you for the very instructive video you did a great job! you should be a techer.. If i was to take the turntable to a shop how much do you think it would cost for them to do the job you just did? I am in the U.S.

[@viperfrank]

@LeoVallenDj Thank you, I'm glad you like the video. I will hopefully be doing some more videos soon. Nice One ; )

[@silvershot02]

Hey man thank you, thank you, thank you, this is exactly what i needed to give this ago. this is by far on of the best set of videos of seen on youtube and you a great person for doing it. are you by chance thinking of doing any other videos for the strobe, 33/45 and pitch controles?

[@viperfrank]

THIS COMMENT WAS ORIGINALLY BY: DJMotorola "Can't wait for Part 4! Great job so far!!"

[@djdavekeenan]

Absolutely fantastic, don't suppose your in the kingston upon Thames area don't think my sausage fingers are up for the job .

[@roggy9111]

Once again brilliant. One question.... where did you get the LED, Resister, and Voltage regulator? What are the specifics of each part? Is there a kit with all three parts available? Again thanks for the great vid.

[@KoSLoW27]

Just do that in blue too Thanks for sharing your experience ! The One thing i hate is the Shining of the led It's very shiny and when you position your deck like me vertically your eye burn by the blue (lol)

[@viperfrank]

@zruokari Thank you, I'm glad you like the videos, Hopefully be doing some more videos soon. thanks for your comment and feed back. Nice One ; )

[@staplecom]

Thanks for posting this great Video. You said you were going to fix the popup speed of the target light. Have you done a vid for that ? I need to do the same.

[@GGarcia7111]

Hi James thx for sharing. I was wondering does it matter which way or which direction the resistor goes ? Thx

[@capricorn839]

Thanks for the effort in getting the video done.

[@brummie43]

Great tutorial James your very good at giving clear cut directions mate. I have done this mod and also the strobe led's to white. I would love to do the 33/45 ones to blue. I'm unsure if I could because the existing red led draws 1.8-2.2v and a blue led would require 3.2-3.8v. How can I tell if this is possible? (i.e. if there's some regulation or a resistor I could remove change)

[@MrSnigefis]

Greetings fra denmark! My 1210's are now complete. Thanks.

[@viperfrank]

Purple? yeah actually that's going to look wicked, glad the video was a help and thank you for your comment. Nice One ; )

[@dirkprins]

Haaa!! this I needed to know. Thanks. Gets that feel and look of quality back when it gets up slow!!

[@parttimejunkie]

Thanks ViperMan! Bright lights.. you're a good teacher, thanks again!! Lorenzo

[@massimilianogiuliani3963]

Hi, Great Video!!! Can u please tell me where to find the resistors. Thanks

[@viperfrank]

@TornRuggedAudio35 It depends on the current of the LED that your using, you have to use that little utility that I showed you to calculate the resistor value for your LED. but a 100 ohm (brown Black brown) normally does for most LED's running at between 25 - 30mA. Hope this helped and thank you for your comment. Nice One ; )

[@gunjeongayo4379]

Great tutorial! Another 1200 can see thanks to you. Thank you.

[@viperfrank]

@Sasha8553 thank you for your comment and your kind words. im glad the video was helpful. thanks again for your comment. nice one!!!

[@160610705]

I've been waiting this for some time now and that was totally rewarding :) nice Job mate!

[@timmyfingaz100]

wow that was pretty damn simple with the way u explained it, thanks for the flawless tutorial bro :)

[@MrMonteblan]

Excellent video, really smashing. Cracking instructional videos... Looking forward to trying this

[@viperfrank]

thank you, Im glad you enjoyed the video as much as i enjoyed making it, good luck. thank you for your comment.

[@happyvibes1]

Great vids, I've followed them all and now have my turntables back 2 there best, I've ordered the bits I need 2 do this target light mod but I'm thinking if I change the target light then I've got to mod the pitch strobe aswell! After all no point in being half-a job harry lol,Can't seem 2 find a vid u have done 4 this so just wondering if u have done 1 or are planning 2?? Thanks

[@Esoneltr]

Hi Viperfranck! Thanks so much for this amazing video! I have to do the same with my little turntable, i'm waiting for the components... The green led of the pitch is dead on my mk2, would you help me to fix it? What sort of led would i put? (Sorry for my english, i wrote you from France!) Thanks a lot!

[@GuiyeFrayo]

Great job mate, thank you very much indeed for sharing your knowledge with everybody. cheers.

[@joshriddick9291]

Awesome! I'm definitely putting some purple LEDs in my 1210s

[@gregoiredurandmusics]

yeah boy job done! love it! but with kind of voltage regulator do you use? for me, at the lamp plug i get 20V. and the led need 2V. regulator 20to2 v? thank you!

[@befrankpls]

Thanks tons Very clear neat and understandable. God bless. Please continue to do more videos

[@RuffneckBizniz]

Hey mate wicked video, could you possibly send me a link for the voltage regs and the leds I would need on Ebay so I can order the correct ones? Cheers

[@RutgerWillems]

Best vid ever! thank you verry much! nice voice and cear explanation! you just made my TT verry happy!

[@medee25]

YOU ARE AWESOME!!! I just Change it on 2 my turntable. Thank You allot.

[@viperfrank]

No its a bit different, you don't need a regulator and the LED's are driven buy an IC so the procedure is different. But don't worry I'm in the process of filming a video on how to mod the LED's in the strobe. Thank you for your comment. Nice One ; )

[@ProNoticIA]

Hi, thanks for the video! This process of change LED and the power button LED is valid in the model sl 1200 mk2?

[@johnnysmile01]

Hi i am from Portugal and i have a BST PR336 DJ turntable similar to Technics SL 1210 and i bought it 2 weeks ago and brings the target light in the old incandescent white warm lamp that i want to Change it for a green led, is it the same procedure ? thank you

[@jacekzamojski]

James, can i do it without the voltage regulator? I followed your description to get them but I can’t find any in UK.

[@djalsurdi67]

Frank,Great video mate, I have a question, how can i get the target light to pop up nice and slow like when the 1200's were new. is that a spring or some type of lubrication that's needed?

[@jon27804]

top video m8. Q - what resistor do i need? is it just a standard thing or do i ask for something specific?

[@djbranboogy03]

ok just did this. thanks for videos. but after about a minute the led (white) faded and its stays barely lit. what could that be?

[@1naelillo]

have you uploaded the video on how to change the other lights on the MK 2 ? I bought them on line and fallowed the instructions, after changing the pitch fader light, it didn't work. Now the pitch fader on my left deck is out. trying to figure out if it is the actual board for the fader or something else. Oh and by the way your videos are great!

[@spinning1200s805]

Great step by step video. I used a voltage calculator similar to the one you used to fingers the correct resistor. after using the formula of 5v power source, 3.2v & 20ma, the recommended resistor was 100ohm - 1/8w. Does 100ohms sound too high or does that sound correct to you?

[@mellowr1]

Hi James. Another great video :o) I must just say my target light was also full of rust and siezed solid!! Think it must of had a whole barrel of lager down it lol. I freed it all off but it pops up quick likes yours does so if you know how to soften the lift please share with me ;o) Great work as always m8

[@carolreed2501]

ive just watched your videos on changeing the popup target lights and im from the uk and i was wondering if you could point out to me what led voltage reg and resistor i will need as o will be getting them from maplins aswell but they dont seem to have all the components still any help would be great cheers steve

[@EsotericArctos]

I know this is an old video and it is a great mod for the SL 1200's with the target light. I am not sure why you worried about a 5V regulator though. A large dropping resistor in series with the LED to drop the 20V down would have been sufficient given the 20V line doesn't move that much, and if you underrun your LED a little, you'll still get plenty of light and that will make up for any slight variance. Also, solid copper wire is not the best there. A fine grade flexible wire would be much better than solid core "telephone" wire. Other than that, a good tutorial on the replacement of the lamp.

[@bernercalito8422]

Thanks for this tutorial. I did everything you said and it work perfect and it look nice or high tech