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Nintendo GameCube Optical Drive Recap: 2 Spares

November 23, 20231 thread~1 min readPartial fix
Disc read errorOptical drive not spinning
RecapOptical-drive service

Two spare Nintendo GameCube optical drives (DOL-001) recapped. One came back to life, one didn't. The dead one reads 30 ohms on the motor where the working one is OL, which likely points to a dead motor.

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November 23, 2023· Thread 1· 2 tweets

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After receiving a shipment from Mouser with some fresh SMD electrolitics, I recapped the two spare Gamecube optical drives I have laying around. Also restored the previously stolen resistor. What do you guys reckon? Were they fixed? See below 👇 #RETROGAMING #Nintendo #gamecube

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This time, the recap fixed one and didn't help the other. The one I had stolen the resistor from, it moves the laser but the disc does not begin to spin. I measured the motor with multimeter, it comes out at 30 ohms, while the one that works reads as OL (open line). Dead motor?

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