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Title:You get surface noise in real life too
Notice:Let's be conformist
Moderator:GOVT02::BARKER
Created:Thu Jul 28 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:550
Total number of notes:3847

303.0. "Capstan motor in cassette decks" by HEAVY::LAW (Mathew Law, SIE (Reading, UK)) Fri Aug 09 1991 12:54

    Just a little question:
    
    Is it usual for the capstan motor in a cassette deck to be running
    continuously, whether or not a tape is playing?  If so, why?
    
    Just knowing that someone else's deck does this would be enough!
    Thanks.
    
    Mat.
    *:o)
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303.1VOGON::ATWALMaybe a Sun reader could tell us more...Fri Aug 09 1991 13:026
the Pioneer deck that I had used to do this, I guess it's so that it can 
get up to speed and try to maintain that speed consistently (for improved 
performance).


...art
303.2HLFS00::STEENWINKELFM2Fri Aug 09 1991 13:3810
    Both Tandberg decks I have do this. Regarding the really hefty
    flywheels they have (both are dual-capstan as well) it would take
    a couple of seconds to get them up to speed. A JVC deck I had
    previously had a switch that set the capstan motor running when a
    cassette was put in. All these decks have at least two motors, but I've
    also seen single-motor decks do this. 


                                                 - Rik -
303.3Suitably reassured...HEAVY::LAWMathew Law, SIE (Reading, UK)Fri Aug 09 1991 18:154
    Thanks. :-) (Happy again!)
    
    Mat.
    *:o)