Aux to Cassette Adapter Teardown and Explanation
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Those little car cassette adapters are and were invaluable to people wanting something other than a cassette player in their car without the cost of upgrading the radio are deceivingly simple. Since they are simple.
This is a teardown and explanation of one picked up at a dollar store, and it is certainly amusing.
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It is not about it being "on its side". It is simply about your deck using an optical tape leader sensor to detect when to engage the autoreverse. The sensor is inserted into the cassette through one of those squarish holes next to the screws. Since this "cassette" has no tape in it at all, all tape access windows remain empty (fully transparent), which is interpreted by the autoreverse sensor as the leader. This is why the autoreverse engages right away. Cover these small rectangular tape access windows with pieces of opaque tape and this adaptor should start working fine in your deck. At least the autoreverse won't engage.
What if you change the mono head to stereo head and add lubricant to these gears? , the used stereo head from good audio deck maybe do a better job than that.
That would for sure be an improvement. Might be a worthwhile mod to pursue!
Damn, this thing is a huge disappointment!
When a classmate recently told me he uses one of those in his car and I didn't know such a thing even existed before, I was excitedly thinking of ways how these things COULD work. I ended up with the idea of having a tiny bit of tape running on loop being constantly erased and rewritten to in the cassette after passing the cassette's read head. To find out that there's no tape in there at all and it's a lot simpler (and better in terms of sound quality) is a vast disappointment for me. :-(
Oh, and WHY ON EARTH does this thing need a brake system to stop the player from turning the wheels backwards, when the turning of the wheels doesn't affect playback in ANY way shape or form other than tricking some more intelligent cassette players?!! It doesn't matter at all what damn direction those gears turn, so why waste the time and effort to create this mechanism that ends up making this thing not work in quite a number of players?!!
There must be a brake system. The cassette head cannot rotate and if the player's head is on reverse playback mode the user will not hear anything and he will blame the adapter!!!!!!
@@gcharalLOL
why do you need those gears for?
could you plug it into a microphone jack and run a tape across it to make it work the other way ?
cassette to jack
I have the same one shown here but mine is black,and the cable jack has weak connections and after one year it would broke and you need to replace that cable with a better quality one
villager at 3:14
If you remove the gear that has the rubber o-ring on it from the cassette adapter it will work. That is the auto-reverse gear which is unnecessary. The only gears that are needed are the 2 with the inner sprockets and the gear that is between them. Most cassette players have a solenoid that has to detect the 2nd gear spinning, it does this by driving the 1st gear and expects that to turn the 2nd gear, in a regular cassette this happens thanks to the tape pulling on the 2nd gear, in these adapter this happens by the gear next to the 1st sprocket turning the 2nd.
Oh! That makes sense! Thanks!
I love you! Thank you! I have a high quality adapter that I've been using for years in my car, but the deck suddenly stopped accepting it. This worked!
This is so irritating to me: It doesn't matter at all which direction the gears are turning, yet they take the effort to make this braking mechanism, and it ends up breaking the functionality of this thing in some cassette players! WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT??
I've seen videos where people remove the gears entirely, so what's the point of them being there at all? You would think, if that's the case, production costs could be lowered by just having the cassette shell, tape head and AUX cable only.
Depending on your tape player, the gears may or may not be needed. Many players need to feel the movement to know if the cassette is playing, and if it feels the tape stop moving, it either auto reverses or stops. So many players you can remove the gears and nothing will happen, but most car stereos have an auto reverse that has to see movement to know that the tape is working and playing. Yeah it would be cheaper if they didn't have to do that, and I guess since there isn't as much demand anymore, there's no point in selling a geared and non geared version.
do you need those gearing in the tape? I dont think so...
some players had a safety feature that would stop if the reel wasn't tirning, to prevent damage to the tape (or cassette player)
I think it is stereo but isn't the read head on one side and the write head on the other? Or maybe i am dreaming haven't had a tape deck in years was it just one side on a cassette?
As far as I know, a stereo cassette tape has 4 tracks, 2 in one direction, two in the other, in pairs. The tape head will have one half with a read head, and if it's stereo, there will be four wires, and that read part will be split, but if it isn't, and there's two wires, it picks up both tracks as mono. If you are recording to a tape, there is usually an erase head next to the read head, and then power is sent to the read head, writing to the tape. So by plugging a tape head into a headphone jack, and sticking it next to another one, it just picks up the signal as though it's a tape. As least I think so. I have tons of tape decks and I still barely understand how it all works.
Well i do not really remember if there was two or one tapehead and it is a bit weird how hard it is to find a video of someone changing tapehead. But i found this picture that seem to suggest 2-tracks in each direction as you said and that read head is on one side and erase/write head at the other, but that make me even more confused because i can't remember you had to swap side to erase the side you listen to. Can they used same active part of head for both or rotated the head when erase/write track/side?
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I can't say for certain but i think only four tracks had separate read/write heads according to what i see on pics.
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That is a picture of 4 track recorder for musicians to record their original music. A car tape player does not have a write head nor an erase head. Why? The reason is that a car tape player does NOT record. It only needs a playback head.
Nah, it's mono. See the two cables that go to the same pin on the head? That's your left and right audio channels being connected together as one channel. The single wire that goes to the other pin is the neutral wire.
I have the same one but it's red. I really wanted to know what it looked like on the inside. It works just fine in my car
I bet the red looks really nice. Hopefully this satisfied your curiosity!
@@NickDrudge i just got one for my 2001 model truck it works great
That cassette is still working?
sterio heads have 3 pins
Yes they are, but in this case the left and the right wires go to the same part of the tape head, making the audio mono.
@@NickDrudge is there a solution to make it stereo?
You would have to replace the mono head with a stereo one and rewire.
@@NickDrudge Maybe thats why the volume is not strong enough compared to the fm receptions
this was a waste of 6 and a half min's.