Beolink 5000 repair

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I have aquired 2 Beolink 5000 remotes in different conditions. They both seem to work for one way remote control, but both give the no contact text when I try to control a Beocenter 2500 or a MCL2AV. The display on one of the is working, although a little dim, and the other one has missing lines plus an artifact of some kind above the text. Both displays are no longer attached to the body of the remotes. Guess the glue is no longer working. So a few questions here before I begin doing any repairs.
  1. I have read that the missing two way should be due to failing capacitors on the lower PCB. However I have not seen any description as to if is only one or all of them that will need replacing?
  2. Except for the capacitor replacing could there be any other issues affecting two way operation (I have done the setup two make sure they are set to two way)?
  3. Any kind of recommandations for a glue type to reattach the display?
  4. Can anything be to to the dim display?
  5. Is the artefact on the other display fixable at all?
  6. Any good tips as to how to secure the working display while working on the remotes?
My plan is to get one working remote out of the two, so will probably start to disassemble one of the and recap the PCB and repaint the casing, and then use those parts for the one with working display Thanks in advance    

Location: Denmark

Will be curious to see any photos you might be able to take! I've just hand-delivered my US-market BL5000 to Steffen in Copenhagen for his specialized repair service. Luckily mine was only missing a few pixel rows; I was a bit nervous about opening it up in case I caused more damage...

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I've repaired +20 BL5K lately and my experience is that the original display ribbon will fail at some point. There is a guy in Struer I use my self who can replace the ribbon. PM me for contact details if you go down that route. But if you chooses not to I think that Beolover has an instruction with a 3D printed fixture. For recap of the IR PCB, there is a guide from Leslie Nelwan at the Beoworld archive showing which caps there needs to be replaced. The artefact on the display is not fixable. At least for now. In according to the service manual the only thing there can be ajusted is the contrast of the display. Hope the above gives you some help and mybe you could get some inspiration for this:

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Thank you very much for your insights Steffen
That's great. And even greater I have all caps in stock since I bought replacements for my Beolink 7000 remote (although that did not fix 2 way on that). So might be faster that I thought to get going at recapping one of the boards.
Nice, I guess different types of double sided tape can be used, but great to have a known working product for reference.
Indeed very helpfull input, and thanks again. Very apriciated :-)  

Location: Denmark

When I replaced the capacitors in one of my BL5000s several years ago I found Leslie's post very useful, especially for the capacitor values.  I also made use of the photos from a 2010 post by 'MartinM' here: 

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Just to add to the above, like MartinM I went for tantalum bead throughout - see my order below:

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https://archivedforum2.beoworld.org/forums/p/9016/89901.aspx Look a little more than half way down. When I replaced the capacitors in one of my BL5000s several years ago I found Leslie's post very useful, especially for the capacitor values.  I also made use of the photos from a 2010 post by 'MartinM' here:  https://archivedforum.beoworld.org/forums/t/35123.aspx The photos are no longer attached, but I kept a copy - see below:
Thank you very much for that extra input and pictures. I looks like some replacements are made with tantylum capacitors instead of Elctrolytic. Not sure if it should make any difference. I Have started recapping the Beolink 5000 with missing lines in the display and are using electrolytic capacitors. For some reason I do not seem to be able to insert pictures right now thought so have attached pictures with before and after replacing capacitors. After recapping 2 way is working fine with both my Beocenter 2500 and a MCL2AV as shown on the attached picture where the volume is shown in the display. An extra question that has come up. the best set of keypads is missing the round aluminium ring, but I have that available on another set of keypads. How can this aluminium ring be removed. Is it glued down or only held in by the rubber keys?

Location: Denmark

I am not sure why you can't upload photos normally - I'll send a message to Multicare. I just dug out an old BL5000 keyboard (actually one that Beoworld member Leslie sent me many years ago) and prised out the metal circle with a guitar plectrum.  It came out quite easily, but looks like it was originally  glued in place:

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