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Location: Denmark
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Beosound Ouverture CD not working
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Hello Madskp,
Since nobody answered you, I'll leave my 2 cents here.
The fact it works intermittently would lead me to look first for bad connections (possibly cold solder joint) or power supply instability (out of specs capacitors).
Keep in mind I'm not an expert on those, only had 2 in my hands, with rather trivial issues.
Good luck.
Location: France
My B&O Icons:
To second Pilatomic's advice and with the same advices on personal expertise, I would say I remember a thread on the previous forum about reflowing some connections around the eye or something like that. Sorry to have no time to find it for you but IIRC it should pop up with obvious key words.
Hoe this helps or may I've time to help you soon.
Location: Paris France
Thank you both for your inputs.
I will try to look into bad connections.
Searching on reflow I also found this thread that mentions that capacitors could be an issue
Location: Denmark
I not sure whether it would help at all but have you tried running the 'Test Mode' for the CD, as mentioned on page 5-17 of the service manual?
Location: Warwickshire, UK
My B&O Icons:
Login to view image When I open the mechanism up I can move the laser arm way further down, by rotating the motor manually. So I guess something is hindering the movement. Anyone has a hint to what that could be? nothing mechanically as far as I can find. The gears rotate freely all the wayLocation: Denmark
When doing the test mode after manually moving the laser arm to the bottom it will still end up in the shown postion when doing the test mode 5
Location: Denmark
Some time have passed and based on some older forum post's I tried a recap of the Philips CDM board on the drive mechanism.
After that I played a full CD. However after playing that first CD it would not play anymore, but after trying some of the test modes from the service manual I have now been able to play several CD's without problems.
However there is one issue that I notice. When I press CD it will close the clamper and show CD in the display, but not start playing before I press CD once more.
This also applies if I start from standby by pressing CD. Then the display will show CD 1 but not start to rotate before I press CD once again.
A minor issue, but not the way it was supposed to work. Any suggestions as to what this could be?
Location: Denmark
Could be a focus problem.
Can you tell/see, if the laser lens moves in and out to search for focus, when you press
CD with no disc loaded?
Martin
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