My PSOne has been giving me alot of trouble lately (audio stuttering during gameplay, now won't even boot games) so i've been trying to find a solution, if i buy this láser, would it work on my PSOne?
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Did you try tearing down, cleaning, and relubricating the drive already?
I haven't because i was afraid i might frick it up and break something
Sounds like it's already fricked up and broken.
The thing to be careful about is the small connector with only a few wires. I always rip off the connector when I remove that from the main board.
It's easy to solder back on, but I'm guessing you don't have a soldering iron.
This is still a risk even if you get the new drive anyway.
You just need ipa, an old toothbrush, q-tips, and some silicone grease.
Worth a try. You'd be surprised how far a little maintenance will go with disc drives.
>tfw i literally ripped the connector off my board trying to repair my assembly
>Mals calidad y no funcionaba
>Recomiendo que vayan directo a alguien que lo cambie y les de garantia
>Realmente recomiendo comprar esta clase de lectores en otro lugar diferente a ml
Go for it
if the spindle is already half dead anyway, try adjusting the intensity pot. like this:
take a israeliteelry flathead screwdriver and just turn the pot a little bit at a time (1/8 a rev or so) so ya don't fry it. be careful. some juice might do it some good. worked for me. good luck.
> but i'm too stupid to adjust the pot
then you're too stupid to install a fresh spindle too. fricken do it.
Don't do this until after you simply try cleaning and relubricating.
This is a last resort desperation move and not an alternative to maintenance.
Already tried that and it didn't help, i might have to try cleaning and relubricating
> Already tried that and it didn't help
if you're talking about the laser intensity pot, it's possible to turn it up too strong. you can try dialing it back a bit.
Intensity is a meme, the real issue is with the disk wobbling because of mechanical wear of the drive, by tweaking a laser you get only a temporary fix that eventually will cause a failure in the near future
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What does it say? I don't speak russian
And how do i fix the wobble then?
I don't buy the wobbling thing. Laser assemblies are designed with wobbling in mind because there will always be wobbling unless you created 100% perfect discs and drives. If it was wobbling bad enough for the electromagnets to not be able to maintain tracking it would be visibly incredibly wobbly and fricked.
I would be more apt to believe that it's dried up lubricant causing the sled to not get to where it needs to be in time.
Cleaning and relubricating drive rails is all it took for me to get a PS1 that had been sitting unused for years working again. It went from not booting discs to booting every time and playing FMVs and audio CDs all the way through without skipping.
I also try to lubricate the spindle with sewing machine oil, but I'm not sure if it's actually penetrating and doing anything but I figure it doesn't hurt.
Holy shit, finally someone that sees the actual problem with PS1 lasers.
If you're having trouble reading discs, even after cleaning the mechanical parts, GET A FRICKING METAL SPINDLE.
Most original plastic spindles are breaking apart because of age, this will cause the disc to wobble and the laser won't read it correctly.
Just be careful with installing it. You can break the plastic spindle to remove it since you're replacing it anyway, but the metal spindle needs to be at the same weight as the original.
Nobody should be messing with the potentiometer, it should be at the default value not to wear the laser even more.
It's actually a mechanical problem, not the laser itself.
I meant same height. It's not very easy to adjust the spindle height, but with a bit of patience anyone can do it.
Most reading problems are tied to a spindle, not a laser
I fixed my 1000 model skipping by simply swapping in a psone laser.
I have a 1000 that only skips once it gets warm.
If I have a portable fan set up next to it to suck the hot air off the power supply, it never skips.
My plan is to get a PSOne one day and swap the drives because I doubt the PSOne gets nearly as hot as the 1000 does, so I bet it will result in two non-skipping consoles.
you can get a pico psu as a replacement
why not just go for a backup loader mod at that point? your original games are due for disc rot in a couple of years anyway
>disc rot
the brain rot has already come for you
I want to get mStation but there has been no updates other than "is taking too long" i'm starting to wonder if it ever is going to get released
I tried to adjust the intensity pot a few days ago without a multimeter and the console read CDs worse than before. I've got a multimeter now but i don't know what was the default value, it *works* on 770 ohms but some games can't get past the PS logo unlike before (it doesn't fix the audio stuttering though), moving the pot is hard because either it won't move at all or the slight move will go from 700 to 1000
Don't you need an oscilloscope to watch the bits coming back?
I only watched spanish speaking tutorials and they use multimeter most of the time, besides an oscilloscope is too expensive for me at the moment
https://www.dogbreath.de/PS1/LaserAlignment/Laser.html
https://alex-free.github.io/unofficial-ps1-cd-drive-service-manual/
Here's another good read.
This should work on pretty much all consoles, just make sure your laser has a spindle that holds the CD in place and you need to desolder the anti-static solder point on the PCB and be careful not to frick up the laser with static in the process