Greetings colleague, since it is not at all reliable to buy readers on Aliexpress, any idea on how to revive an optical lens? Maybe it would be a good idea to change the flex of the original lens? And another question, in which pin of the card can I observe the behavior of the lens with the oscilloscope? Thank you in advance.
@@davidfarciertenhorabuena3754 Depends on where is the problem, cause if the failure is because of the worn out plastic parts then it can't be repaired(old model SCPH-1002). I did repair one original optical lense with using a laser diode from a chinese drive. Because chinese drives have really bad rails that's why I put together 2 pieces. I also recommend using japanese cd-r JVC Taiyo Yuden. For second question it's pin CL704. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.
Do you have any links for the working 5th one. I have the same revision ps1 and that is specifically the optical drive I need to purchase so it would be perfect.
I bought 5 and 5 from differents shops on AliExpress to see if there would be any difference but there´s none. So basically all of these are the same thing. In these 5 there´s only one working but not perfectly well. It´s quite a risk to buy. If you still want I can find the links somewhere and send you but all of these drives have the same quality from AliExpress even if they don´t look alike on pictures they will arrive identically exactly the same.
@@CZ.RetroGamer I have few of these, one is not working at all. Others usually work requiring to have spindle top lifted manually. I'm mastering technique of lifting it to correct level, but it is quite shitty. Anyway it works well, so better than nothing or having to install xstation..
