Inventory (Stock): a rather extensive list of service manuals, which are hard to find, especially 15+ yrs old.
Pricing: very reasonable.
Delivery/Response: Very Prompt delivery of product: Placed order and received download access within 1.5hrs.
Service Manual: a rather complete OEM service manual (15.5MB pdf file size). Scan quality was very good, accept for a few circuit board diagrams that were dark; Zooming, however, clarified the image. Has the required information for servicing the LD Player.
Excellent replacement for original Manual. Worth every cent ! I am totally satisfied!
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WARNING
CHARGED CAPACITORS ON THE SERVO BOARD MAY DAMAGE THE CD DRIVE ELECTRONICS WHEN CONNECTING A NEW CDM MECHANISM. THAT´S WHY, BESIDES THE SAFETY MEASURES LIKE � SWITCH OFF POWER SUPPLY � ESD PROTECTION ADDITIONAL ACTIONS MUST BE TAKEN BY THE REPAIR TECHNICIAN.
The following steps have to be done when replacing the CD mechanism: 1. Disconnect flexfoil from old CD drive 2. Put a paperclip over contacts of flexfoil to short-circuit the contacts (fig.1) 3. Remove old CD drive 4. Remove paperclip from flexfoil 5. Connect flexfoil to new CD drive 6. Remove ESD-protection (solder joint) from laserunit (see below) 7. Position new CD drive in its studs
fig.1
Attention: The laser diode of this CD drive is protected against ESD by a solder joint which shortcircuits the laserdiode to ground. For proper functionality of the CD drive this solder joint must be removed after connection the drive to the set.
