Monday 7 November 2016

ESR METER IS READY FOR TECHNICANS

Hi dear repair friends
I am happy to present my own designed ESR Meter to you in Electronic repair articles.I have written many number of articles saying the Effectiveness of  this instrument.I think many repair case history have realizes how it worked.
My self as a repair technician i have impressed with this instrument & tried to purchase in the local market.But its availability is zero. Meany shop vendors dose not know about this instrument in local.I don't want to specify here the shop name area ect.
Here my main intention is to reach this instrument to all of you and make your repair work easy.

Here i will make you understand & explain how to use this instrument effectively.
Myself as a user I tried this instrument to import(Bob parker,s ESR meter) but worried about cost and maintainance.
Searched other brand in internet but availability is very less. All this points made my mind to desgine my own circuit for this meter. Depending up on the user I have developed two kind of circuit
1) ANALOGUE TYPE: any one can convert analog multimeter to analogue esr by simply connecting to vom present in the meter.
2)DIgital type: This type is designed for good
 result like exact reading and good digital display.
In my previous article I have written every thing about this instrument and its repair success story. I don't want to repeat it again & again if you want to re-fresh then you can click the link below.


Next coming to design hear first i am introducing
Analog type circuit later on I am going to present digital ESR in coming days.
What are all the advantages???
1) Easily any one (technicians) can convert cheap readily available analogue multimeter in to      valuable capacitor police ESR meter.
2) Components are used cheap which are readily available in local market including battery.
3) Battery low warning circuit is included in the design so that wrong reading from the instrument is avoided.
4) Both PCB/Assembled meter available depends up on your requirement.
5)If meter fails working you can repair yourself because I have not included micro controller. Here used Components cost is very cheap so that you can replace easily.
Below I am presenting  prototype PCB layout for my analogue design.If you have any Questions you can mail me.


1st Analogue ESR Meter design without low battery warning circuit

I will be reachable in below mail. Definitely I will answer to your question.Hear is my mail id
basavarajradiotech @gmail. Com
Please have a look one more design which i have added both normal & low battery warning circuit.
                                                2nd design having battery warning circuit


Depending upon the user choice one can Order me the PCB with assembled/Tested ok.Once the Order confirmed i will courier to your address.

Here is one more which is readily available with me. By using this one can convert any multimeter either analogue or digital of any brand into valuable ESR Meter.Before this i will let you know in detail tips & Explanation how to hook this instrument at the back of your multimeter(analogue or digital of any brand)


                                  Third  Design 3.5"/3.5" Dimension & Readily available with me.

Details how to connect to an instrument



Plastic Box Housing 3.5'' by 3.5''




Above ESR pcb is been placed inside above Box which is Hooked at the back of meter to be converted.



With Best regards
Basavaraj:BM
basavarajradiotech @gmail. Com


Sunday 6 November 2016

LG DVD player NO-DISC Complaint now revealed

Hi Friends,

 Wel-come to the wealth of knowledge Electronic repair articles

Today let me reveal how i repaired LG DVD  player NO-DISC  Complaint.
Before coming to this topic i would like to put word on this NO-DISC/DISC ERROR.

NO-DISC  Complaint is quite common in almost DVD.Many repair guide or Technical documents says the solution to change the lens assembly or adjust the spindle pan height,motor,Filter caps related to motor driver sections  etc.
Really its very headache job.Some of the DVD I was not able to solve doing all the above activities. Many time i am asking myself then what could be a problem?
Even i wasted a lot of time and money  by simply changing the driver ics  .After this i was not happy since i failed to solve the NO-DISC Complaint completely.Many mails and phone calls communicated with an experts but no use they are giving same solution what i said above.
Eighty percent of the complaint solves when we follow above steps but some of them will fail But,my concern what is the hidden secrete apart from that to solve no disc complaint 100% below is the story.
                                                ONE CAME FOR REPAIR
One of my friend brought the LG DVD Having complaint NO-Disc error. Since its a known story i was not so confident that i can solve this 100%. As usual checked lens assembly's servo activity found ok.Cleaned the lens,checked the spindle pan height found ok.Checked all the electrolyte capacitors carrying voltages and signals to Disk mechanism but no use. 

But this is the most challenging task for me.Once if i solve this i will get an answer & can realize the secrete beyond this.Next i wanted to conform weather the fault is in PCB's side or loader assembly side.For my goodness i got same model LG DVD in working condition.Below are the points i made repair activity Using this working DVD.

1)First  Exchanged the disc machenisum worked excellent & happy to see this and  conformed no issue with in the PCB side.



2) Now swapped the Lens from working to non working   NO Result same disc error




3) Checked and compared the spindle/servo  Motor resistance on both DVD  found within the spec(ie 5ohms to 20 ohms)




                                                       Motor tested from faulty  machenisum

                                                     Motor tested from good  machenisum


Again confused  me when  the lens/motor showing ok  on both DVD then what is making disc error inside the machnisum.Any how i lost confident & made my mind to give up and about to reassemble.Finally i got a small clue to run the motor with my dc source.So i tuned to 5volts turned on & compared both motor current drawn status to my surprise i got huge difference in current consumption.Alas that's what i required.Now again i got confident to fix this.

 DEFECTIVE SPINDLE MOTOR DRAWING HUGE CURRENT WHEN CHECKED IN DC SOURCE

Defective spindle motor drawing more then 1ampers   @ 5volts as shown.If this is the case then how this driver ic SA5888 will supply such huge current .By looking this i got  huge clue as a secrete and got confident i can solve this.Replaced the good spindle motor(<300milli-amps current drawn) and checked.DVD Worked excellent i felt very happy to see this,hope you all enjoyed this article .Happy reading let us meet in next class take care.

Best regards 
Basavaraj:BM 
basavarajradiotech @gmail. Com