Beogram CD X - sensitouch pads not responding.

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bmw540 (archived2)
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Posted March 9, 2019 at 10:20 GMT
#2119796

Yesterday I picked up a nice Beogram CD X for only 25 $ in a garage sale.

The seller said that everything worked alright and it looked very fine without scratches and so on.

 

Now I am home and I have hooked it up, and none of the sensitouch pads responds when I touch them.

 

The player turns on when pressing the flat play button on the front, and the lid opens when pressing the eject button.

When I insert a CD, nothing happens when I touch the play sensitouch pad. If I turn the player off and on again the lid closes and the CD starts playing and it plays fine until the end of the CD.

 

But as mentioned none of the sensitouch pads responds during play.

 

My question is, will the sensitouch pads only respond to touch by fingertips?

I have no arms or hands, so I use my feet and toes as hands and fingers and therefore I also press the pads with my toes.

Would there be a reason for the sensitouch pads not to respond to toes? 

 

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chartz (archived2)
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3224 posts
Posted March 9, 2019 at 10:32 GMT
#2119797

Hi, 

Welcome to Beoworld!

Nice purchase, congrats! 🙂

My guess is some bad solder joint on the front command PCB. I've seen a few.

If the player was taken apart before, it's possible that the PCB was badly put back into place too, or not tight enough...

Nothing too serious methinks. Take it to a competent technician to have it fixed.

DI
Dillen
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12777 posts
Posted March 9, 2019 at 13:23 GMT
#2119798

The conductive rubber stubs under the operating panel can lose conductivity.
Often it can be fixed by adding a blob of solder to the top of the pin on the circuitboard to increase contact pressure.

Martin

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bmw540 (archived2)
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Posted March 10, 2019 at 08:15 GMT
#2119799

Thank you for your answers 🙂

 

I hope you are right that it is a technical issue and not my toes that doesn´t work on the pads, because I really like the look and sound of the CD X.

 

Also I am planning to buy a nice Beocenter 9500 to hook it up to, but if the sensitouch pads can not be operated with my toes then it would not be the wisest thing to do. 

 

Is it an easy fix, that I would be able to do myself, or should I find a skilled technician?

 

I am quite good at soldering, but I have mostly done stuff like installing new lamps in old receivers and so on.

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