It's an old radio

E - Teardown

Folder: Electronics
Looking at the innards of electronic devices.
Input board

Input board

21 May 2011 64
Nice attention to detail

Nice attention to detail

21 May 2011 77
Don't you just hate it when wires are directly soldered to a PCB and they wiggle and jiggle and finally break. Won't happen here.
Left speaker

Left speaker

21 May 2011 89
Left speaker

Left speaker

21 May 2011 80
Right speaker

Right speaker

21 May 2011 71
Nice attention to detail

Nice attention to detail

21 May 2011 71
Right speaker - innards

Right speaker - innards

21 May 2011 81
I didn't make an effort to reverse engineer the thing, but it seems the switch doesn't really cut the power. If I touch the traces with dry fingers it shuts down everything.
The remaining parts

The remaining parts

23 Jul 2011 105
I'm planning to play with the hub motor a bit. It is easily removed and as long as the electronics is still functional I'll have a look at the signals going or coming from the 4 pins of the motor.
Time to say goodbye !

Time to say goodbye !

23 Jan 2011 96
More than 16500 power-on hours without any trouble. As of lately it started talking to me: "CLICK CLICK CATCHUNK!!!!". I instantly moved my system to a new disk. The smallest one I could get was 500GB. Time is moving fast. ALWAYS MAKE BACKUPS - REGULARLY.
Max headroom - NOT

Max headroom - NOT

23 Jan 2011 78
Harddisk - heads and platters

Harddisk - heads and platters

23 Jan 2011 84
Unfortunately all of these very nice Torx screws don't seem to be metric. At least not M3. I like Torx much better than the common socket head ones.
Samsung SpinPoint - 2006/05/26

Samsung SpinPoint - 2006/05/26

23 Jan 2011 94
Time to go 'back to sender'.
I don't like what I see

I don't like what I see

23 Jan 2011 94
That's what I call a lot of corrosion.
The heads

The heads

23 Jan 2011 89
The heads

The heads

23 Jan 2011 73
The heads

The heads

23 Jan 2011 89
Harddisk - heads and platters

Harddisk - heads and platters

23 Jan 2011 97
Magnet with parking position 'thing'

Magnet with parking position 'thing'

23 Jan 2011 85
322 items in total