BeoSound Century – Dead CD Drive

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machineage wrote:

Well, that didn’t work! On replacing the pickup, and attempting to play a CD, the spindle motor did spin up this time, but my hopes were short lived. After a second or two, the spindle motor stopped, and the CD clamp opened. Placed the unit into Test Mode. It initially gave an error 7 on pressing CD, but now repeatedly gives an error 3. I removed & checked all the connections, but error 3 it is.

That’s a shame – do you plan to replace the servo board capacitors next?

(My BC2300 CD fix had similar results – it worked for a short  while when I replaced just the laser, but had to replace caps for a permanent solution)

Location: Warwickshire, UK

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[GEORGIOS HATZIPETRIS]

I have the Beosound Century with a 1255 CD mechanism.

Because it was not easy to find the laser eye I had a 12.4 CDI mechanism and a 2300 servo board from Beosound 2300

So I proceeded to convert the board to be placed in the century .

The CD works and I have sound but after 2,3 minutes the sound comes out distorted .

In the middle the Century cd  interface board has three components named D1, D2, TR1.

I think this is the problem. I have placed the wrong components .Can someone tell me which diodes are and which transistor is it?

I have placed 1n4148.

 

Thanks in advance.

• This reply was modified 1 day, 19 hours ago by matador. Reason: Cleaning for clarity

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