How Does a Car CD Player Work?
Apr 21, 2015 | 11:59 am
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How Does a Car CD Player Work?
I suppose this is a technical question. Does anyone have good information, or a good website or video, on how a car CD player works? I am not so much talking about the laser reading the CD, rather how the unit pulls the CD into the slot. Is is a photo sensor that knows when a CD is inserted? Does it use rollers, or an arm like front load CD players do?
Apr 27, 2015 | 1:23 pm
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Here's a video:
May 5, 2015 | 9:02 am
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That's a useful video, thanks TWA884.
As far as I remember, there are two arms inside a slot loading disc drive, that pivot around a pin. Inserting the disc causes one arm to activate a switch, which causes a motor to drive the other arm which in turn moves the disc onto the spindle. Ejecting the disc does this all in reverse...
As far as I remember, there are two arms inside a slot loading disc drive, that pivot around a pin. Inserting the disc causes one arm to activate a switch, which causes a motor to drive the other arm which in turn moves the disc onto the spindle. Ejecting the disc does this all in reverse...
May 5, 2015 | 9:40 am
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That's a useful video, thanks TWA884.
As far as I remember, there are two arms inside a slot loading disc drive, that pivot around a pin. Inserting the disc causes one arm to activate a switch, which causes a motor to drive the other arm which in turn moves the disc onto the spindle. Ejecting the disc does this all in reverse...
As far as I remember, there are two arms inside a slot loading disc drive, that pivot around a pin. Inserting the disc causes one arm to activate a switch, which causes a motor to drive the other arm which in turn moves the disc onto the spindle. Ejecting the disc does this all in reverse...
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