Philips CDR820 Disc will not load repaired

How to fix the detection switch on many types of cd drives.

[@michelmorioux6869]

Thank you 12voltvids for your video cause I got a cdr 820 and the same problem :the tray didn't close entirely, stopped in the middle. Now it works fine . 😉

[@coojoezak]

thank you for all videos

[@BeachTechPC]

Had this same issue with a thrift store Xbox. Cleaned the two pin switch's and it worked fine. The original Xbox is the king of disc drive trouble.

[@zuurbekje3125]

I'm kind of surprised that Philips used a Mitsui drive instead of one of their own... I'm pretty sure Philips made CD-R transports for a while. (Thanks for your videos BTW!)

[@cengeb]

I think Philips had part ownership of Mitsui, or a big working relationship. and it might have been cheaper to use their brand rather than their own, depending on what part of the world the stuff was being made and sold in...

[@zx8401ztv]

Smashing job, its not sticking its tongue out at you now :-D. Pin switches, i thought that only the old 3.5 inch floppy drive units used them. The pc Toshiba dvd reader came to mind, they allways went silly, the tray switch was the toggle type your first mensioned, i think the switch was a poor design. Other types of drives with similar switches didnt cause problems.

[@samuelsalins8309]

Great 👌

[@neilcrompton3488]

+12voltvids what was the spray u used to clean the pinswitch?. What did u add to the plastic pushrod to make it work properly?

[@pnakogee55]

Where could I could Cd Laser Diode module for Venturer CD Compact Disc Digital Audio? or where do I send to you to fix it? I live in far remote Community in Ontario around James Bay there are no services here to fit them. so am trying to do it myself. my CD player does not load and play.

[@chadbrowning351]

Greetings! I have a Phillips CDR800, very similar to the CDR820, I'm assuming the 820 is an attempt by Phillips to correct some common problems with the 800 namely "CDR tray will not open" and that is my problem...I opened up the unit and found nothing obvious other than the CDR unit appears to be completely dead when I press buttons on the control panel on the front of the unit I get the proper response just nothing happens at all with the CDR oddly enough the 3 cd carousel responds to commands entered on the CDR side and the cooling fan on the back of the unit never turns on.....I'm thinking there is a bad control chip on the control board underneath the power supply. I found a Schematic online and voltages seem to be ok going to the CDR module but I could be wrong on that I really would like to get this working if I can. The CDR module in the 800 is different than the 820 it does not have the pin style sensor switch but a different kind, (rocker arm switch I think) I shot it with some WD40 and worked it back and forth a little bit.....still....nothing.. Thanks in Advance...

[@Splayn]

Did you find a solution to that problem? I also got a CDR800 with the same problems.

[@ommii]

hey bro I have another question I know how to work this machine but I'm having a problem on the front of the player when I'm playing music from my TV Thur analog the sound is not showing up in the volume section I'm talking about the right and left speaker. Symbols on the front of the player in now the sound is showing on the front of the player but nothing is even playing I have all of this plugged up to a mixer by the way

[@ChristopherLionRoars]

You're distroying the interwebs with cat pur!!!!!!!!!

[@Subgunman]

Cheap Chinese switches. They get dirty and oxidize underneath. The extra length will help but there is a good chance it may fail again. Trying to find switches can be a pain. Mouser, DigiKey, Farnell should have them but good luck finding the right one. Thanks for the insight. I have a DVD player with similar symptoms, when it decides to accept the disk I get a "Bad Disk" error on the screen.

[@carlschmiedeke151]

How do guys like you learn how to do the shit you do with electronics, your amazingly electronically intelligent, I love your videos, & yeah I subscribed, I need to get in touch with you when I go to hook up all my solar shit, or are you not into that sort of thing

[@12voltvids]

I was always interested in electronics, and like many started tinkering when I was young. I then got a job at a shop and worked with an old army electronics tech that ran a shop. So I learned what the military taught him. I did study electronics in school, but not post secondary. My post secondary education is actually video and television production as that was my first choice profession. That didnt work out, as I was a little early before TV and film really took off here. By the time all those productions were going I had already gone back to electronics and had started working for Sony Canada.

[@mcramp20]

Think the cat swallowed the mic during recording !

[@Dillisive]

The record side looks like it took longer to read the disc.

[@kuyutemelkuyutemel9699]

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[@fadhlematrook1248]

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[@mrpedrodrodriguezsr7628]

So a Phillips machine that doesn't use phillips screws ? First one for me ! :)

[@12voltvids]

I would actually be surprised to find one that did. In the TV world they always used torx or hex screws.

[@sarasartori6859]

Aren't philips and phillips two different things? 😅

[@danmackintosh6325]

Ah, yet again the irony of Philips not using Philips screws in their equipment...

[@12voltvids]

Philip's the company did not invent the Phillip's screw. Duh. A guy from Canada named Robertson invented the Robertson screw. The best screw ever designed. Unfortunately unless you are in Canada you have never seen or used one. You use square head which looks similar but is not. Using a square head bit on a Robertson screw or vise versa usually ends up in a stripped screw and people blame the Robertson design. A real Robertson screw with Robby bit won't slip or stop. In fact you can put enough torque on there to shear the head off the screw.

[@danmackintosh6325]

@@12voltvids I knew about the Robertson screw from your previous videos, case of being too good for it's own good i guess whereas Philips (which i did not know were of seperate origin to Philips electronics until now! Somehow). are a bit more idiot-proof, no overtightening/snapping screws if it cams out once tight. Now i think it's time for me to look into the origin of Philips heads lol

[@12voltvids]

@@danmackintosh6325 The cam out of Philip's was one of the reasons for its design. Started in automotive industry so workers would not over tighten when assembling with power tools.

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[@drteeth7054]

@@12voltvids Good lad.