Comments on: Optical Calibration: DVD Player Repair

By: fwaggle

fwaggle — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:09:32 +0000

Without the proper equipment, there’s really no way to tell – I call it “twiddling” for a reason, you’re just blindly messing with it until you get the desired behavior. The CD/DVD will “flick” (brief, quarter-second-ish periods of acceleration) while it’s searching for a disc, and when it’s found one it’ll spin up… keep messing with it until it spins up, if it doesn’t ever spin up… throw the thing away and buy another one.

By: kurru

kurru — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:32:54 +0000

Great, that works to me too!

By: pugz

pugz — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:02:52 +0000

which direction will i go and adjust? counter clockwise or clockwise?

By: leon

leon — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:37:32 +0000

It’s not osmosis… it’s wicking. Also, the problem as in one case a DVD player was given to me (my brother in law assumed I’d fix it) the motor wouldn’t keep up a consistent RPM. There’s a tiny switch if you follow the DVD rotation motors circuits, and it just needed to be tweaked with a minute amount of force to make the proper mechanical engagement as the drawer slides back and contacts the switch.

By: in car dvd player

in car dvd player — Wed, 12 May 2010 19:28:14 +0000

Excellent work here. DVD players are relatively trouble free. You can clean the machine, replace cords, and replace faulty motors, belts, and trays. More often, problems with DVD players are caused by faulty DVD discs, either damaged or dirty. Anyway, thanks for posting!

By: Calamidad

Calamidad — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:36:21 +0000

It worked!
thanks