Mine after greasing up the motor on the CD mech works, but strangely when powered on spins anticlockwise and takes about 5 mins to warm up before it wil read a disc (spinning it the correct way, clockwise). Caps seem ok on visual inspection. any ideas why it needs to "warm up" and why the motor spins anticlockwise slowly when powered on by not reading a disc?
You were lucky that the electrolytics have not eaten legs of the small Zener diode in the power supply area ^^ The systems I had needed ultrasonic bath to remove this awful capacitor juice. This crappy juice hiddens under the heatsinks... My toughest recapping job until now is for a PCEngine LT, I learned a lot about soldering skills on it ^^
Yeah definitely, only a few traces needed minor touch up. If you watch the part 2 vid, I explained about lifting the heatsinks because of how much cap juice was such under there 😨
Great job you did,could use those handy hands on some of my consoles
Great job! Thanks for the video! Congrats on a successful project!
Mine after greasing up the motor on the CD mech works, but strangely when powered on spins anticlockwise and takes about 5 mins to warm up before it wil read a disc (spinning it the correct way, clockwise). Caps seem ok on visual inspection. any ideas why it needs to "warm up" and why the motor spins anticlockwise slowly when powered on by not reading a disc?
You were lucky that the electrolytics have not eaten legs of the small Zener diode in the power supply area ^^ The systems I had needed ultrasonic bath to remove this awful capacitor juice. This crappy juice hiddens under the heatsinks...
My toughest recapping job until now is for a PCEngine LT, I learned a lot about soldering skills on it ^^
Yeah definitely, only a few traces needed minor touch up. If you watch the part 2 vid, I explained about lifting the heatsinks because of how much cap juice was such under there 😨