Thread: Stereo/DVD: - SC-xxx AUX INPUT HACK
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Old Mar 6th, 2010, 18:52   #9
bobbych
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Originally Posted by ShadeTek View Post
Does anyone have a schematic for one of these units available? It's doubtful anyone uses their tape deck any more, so why not completely disable the tape deck and use its audio channel for a full time aux input. Would mean disabling the motor full time...IDEA, why not put the tape deck into loaded mode and then disconnect the motor, this would stop the tape carriage from being ejected and thus the subsequent dismantle and manual re-load. I would assume that there is a mode switch on the deck theat tells the system that it is loaded so it would be in "tape loaded" mode all the time? Only down side I can see is when pushing the eject button it mutes the tape deck, but that might not happen if the mode switch still says "tape loaded" or the system may detect a tape jam error if the carriage does not reach an unloaded postion. Why not give it a go bobbych?

(P.S I was an audio engineer for years repairing things like this).
i dare say yes, this is very easy to do. Like i said, i have the spare sc800 i can practice on, so I think next week i will look at how to disable the tape desk eject
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Last edited by bobbych; Mar 6th, 2010 at 18:55.
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