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

[@drexciya2]

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

[@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!

[@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!!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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 👍😀👊

[@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

[@zruokari]

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

[@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

[@toomanyprojectstx]

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

[@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.

[@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 !!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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!

[@djreynanconnection]

Thanks for this tutorial mate i watched from part 1 - 5 i will follow carefully all of these steps! Goodluck myself😁✌️🙏

[@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

[@thebigd298]

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

[@nikmak]

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

[@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.

[@selwynandrews9665]

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

[@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. 😉

[@saritdjx]

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

[@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!!!

[@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.

[@GGarcia7111]

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

[@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.

[@viperfrank]

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

[@thelaidbackrunner]

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

[@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!!!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@elifan2523]

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

[@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?

[@oswaldclarke6247]

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

[@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.

[@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 ,

[@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 :-)

[@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 ; )

Good morning, can you tell me why I can't download the Technics SL MK2 part 4 video?

[@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?

[@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

[@mestredigital2]

My pitch fader LED has burned. It don't lit anymore. What is the correct LED to replace the old one? 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.

[@ccricers]

The small screw (the one that holds the spring assembly in place) of the target light in my turntable won't budge. It seems to be placed in very tightly and applying a lot of torque with a small screwdriver in such a small area is very difficult. Got any ideas on how to remove it?

[@viperfrank]

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

[@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

[@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

[@andy7murray]

hi there just got my kit from pimp my decks and it says to snip off the resistor and it just says to solder the wires to the other wires already there obs take the old ones out and replace with led but its already got the wires soldered on to the led do i still have to go get the resistor n voltage regulator?? and also i dont know what spec ( volts/amps my led is )

[@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!

[@viperfrank]

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

[@MultiTban]

i bought a kit from ebay and from the instructions that they sent the LED in the pop up light always stays on, they didn't include the voltage regulator and according to the instruction the new resistor is not even in the switch anymore, does anyone know why is this happening, thanks

[@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.

[@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 ; )

[@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.

[@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.

[@mikedubmixing]

Can i use the same type of led for the 33-45 rpm buttons and on of switch? I got a pack of 10

[@MrStepper83]

Do I need a voltage regulator or resistor when changing the 33/45 LEDs and the pitch fader LED or can I just do a straight swap?

[@160610705]

easy mate, so i've got this target light assembly off... tried the small screw but its carving just got messed.. have i wrong phillips 00x50 screwdriver: or what

[@GGarcia7111]

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

[@tough213]

one more thing can you tell me how to get rid of the low hum and buzzing in the channels coming through the speakers . all wires and connections are firm and the cartridge is working fine as well thank you

[@pudgydon]

join my group on facebook. DJ EQUIPMENT EXCHANGE. they can help you with the hum.

[@djjoep100]

nice can i use radioshack needle-tip precision lubricator to oiling the center spindle for my technics sl-1210m5g the operating instructions apply 2 or 3 drops every 2000 hours of operation . radioshack part number 64-2301a in the usa . needle-tip precision lubricator oil can i use this oil?

[@viperfrank]

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

[@Blaklatha]

Hi. Im whant change my popup lights but just have one question: Do i have to make something different whwn its a eu plug turntabe?

[@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.

[@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 ; )

[@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

[@TonyLaRoccadj]

HI viperfrank! I can only replace the bulb with another, removing it from the stylus? thanks

[@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 ; )

[@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!

[@HANZTHAGIFTED1]

I WAS CHECKING OUT EVERYTHING BEFORE I STARTED. I HAVE TWO ?S ON YOUR VOLTAGE REGULATER HOW MANY AMPS SHOULD IT BE? AND MY NEXT ? IS WHAT IF YOU JUST RESOLDIER A NEW LAMP ON THE OLD LAMP WIRES THAT WERE CUT,COULD THAT BE DONE INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO THE WHOLE 9 YARDS... JUST ASKING?

[@antoniosoliscordoba9465]

Good explanation but the reference of the resistance or the voltage regulator does not appear

[@ambesa1]

can you give insight on what resistior you used, if that led page wiz is correct, then it says a 1/4 68 ohm blue grey black gold , and on the led is 3.2 v - 3.4v(max) ok to use? thank you

[@mkjell]

my turntable (M3D) is 110V: does it make any difference? Thanks.

[@Superdordor]

how do you change the outlet of a Technic 1200 mk2

[@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!

[@MrSnigefis]

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

[@viperfrank]

Thank for your nice comment, I appreciate all feed back. That was going to be my next Technics video to do, i have already done it on one of my 1210 just going to do the other one and film the tutorial while i do it. the vid will be on the way soon. Thanks again 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.

[@massimilianogiuliani3963]

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

[@djdavekeenan]

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

[@timmyfingaz100]

u think this method would work on the power lights? 33/45 round button switch

[@mikhailperalta4816]

just a question.. do i need to buy regulators if i replace the pitch led? I'm trying to refurb my old 1200s on my own..coz im on a tight budget.. thanks mate

[@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!

[@MrNowBru]

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

[@djbranboogy03]

i tried this and the led kept fading. then i seen on forums to just put a 1k resistor inline and it worked. i still used this video. was that a bad move?

[@rubix0110]

Does it matter which wire goes through the switch? My turntables had the ground wire running through the switch, and the resistor connected to both ends of the resistor. And when I ordered an LED kit that came with instructions, they told me to attach the ground wire to the switch and just connect the live wires directly with the resistor in between, and no voltage regulator needed.

[@GGarcia7111]

Foundroc with the kit you ordered it comes with a resistor. You don't have to use the old one.

[@gregjames189]

What was the lamp you used afain?

[@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 ; )

[@sergioobernardi]

Alright, this might sound funny. i did all process and its working but light does go off when i pull donw the target light.... any idea of why? either thanx for this tutorial!

[@christaloney19]

Did you fix it ? Got the same problem

[@capricorn839]

Thanks for the effort in getting the video done.

[@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

[@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!