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This started out as an iRippit X-50 50 Disc CD/DVD Duplicator. I saw it on a deal site and figured I could hack it to get it to read CD's / DVD's instead of burn them. I'm not interested in copying disc's I just want an easy way to auto load them for ripping to my NAS.
At one point, I had a majority of my DVD's ripped to my Windows Home Server. The hard drives in that ended up failing without much warning, and I lost a good chunk of that collection. I still own the optical disc's and would like to re-rip them, but in an automatic way.
Drivers for newer operating systems are not there, and the software this works with is really only designed to copy a bunch of the same disc over and over. A band interesting in burning their own discs might like this.
The first step was to remove all of the housing and electronics, and identify what things I can use and what each part is.
I documented what I could figure out from each connecting wire:
- Bad Disk Full (Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue) QRB1114
- Bin Full (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green) QRB1114
- Drive Door (Blue, Black, Purple, Yellow) QRB1114
- Home Sensor (Red, Orange, Yellow) Sharp GP1A75E3J00F (Yellow = E)
- Disk Present (Red, Black, Blue) Sharp GP1A75E3J00F (Blue = E)
- Safety Int (Black, Read, Green) Sharp GP1A75E3J00F (Green = E)
- JP13 Greyish White Wires go to the Disc Release Solenoid.
- Stepper Motor FL42STH47-1206AC
- 1.8 degrees 1.2A
- Power Supply 12V @ 2.5A
This should be enough information to get going.
I don't need the safety interrupt, so that leaves me with 5 sensors, 1 stepper and 1 solenoid that I need to interface with.
That still left me with trying to identify that Sharp optical sensor since there are 2 of them I will need. I can see that the blue wire here is the Emitter, I'd really like to find the specs on this to make sure I drive it correctly.
My search let me here, not identical, but very close. The 361 chip on my board is a current limiting resistor.
A little experimenting with the lid sensor that I'm not going to need should help me figure out how to interface with this.
Ohhh I found it @ DigiKey 425-2565-ND
Sharp GP1A75E3J00F I'm still not sure from this how to identify the other two leads.