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RE: Damping the Foating CDP Laser-Track Tray

One of the issues of optical payback is the correction circuit. The laser lens needs to move up and down, and side to side to track the "groove". If the movement is warranted the sled motor becomes involved, too and it is this movement which affects the playback circuitry, in the sense that the more the correction circuit is involved the ore the sound becomes.

One issue is that the correction circuit is a feedback system. IT becomes involved when an error is sensed. There is always a slight delay for it to "kick in."

Modern error correction circuits are mounted on a single IC chip and pretty much standardized. I have actually added ferro fluid to the correction motors (around the laser lens) and that has had the effect speeding up the correction motor speed: adding dynamics an detail.

CAREFUL. practice on an old machine first. Spilling the fluid will ruin the lens assembly, and you need also to balance the amount on the various motor coils or else the correction circuit will move assymetrially and NOT focus properly.


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