Hello,
I've made many purchases from those guys:
http://www.libertye-online.com/
they have most of those laser lens at very good prices and when installed all worked like a charm
be the force with you...
Hello,
I've made many purchases from those guys:
http://www.libertye-online.com/
they have most of those laser lens at very good prices and when installed all worked like a charm
be the force with you...
Sorry for the bump of an old thread.
I tried a Optima-150 in a Sega CD2. I ordered a Optima 6.....got sent the wrong one, some funny bastard replaced the sticker on the laser or it has been incorrectly marked as a 6, the box it came in said "Optima 150".
It does not work. I have temporarily used one out of a Saturn (Optima 6) and the console works, I just wanted to replace the one I borrowed from the Saturn.
One thing I did notice on the 150 laser though was there was no solder bridge, there was a spot for it but it wasn't bridged. I have contacted seller for the correct laser and a replacement.
With the 150 in the Sega CD2 it spins up as if trying to read the disc. If I turn the machine on with the disc in, it pretty much straight away says no disc. If I turn it on and then put the disc in, it just tries to read, spinning the disc doing nothing.
Last edited by omp!; 09-23-2011 at 04:57 PM.
The 150 you got without the bridge probably had it removed due to being a used laser or pulled from a working console/assembly.
Shame you can't use a KSS-210A. I have a dead SegaCD2 here with an entire laser assembly I could ship out but it uses dual connectors and not just a single ribbon.
I fix things. You name it, I'll work on it. Want something modded? Recapped?
Yea, I am not sure what the go is, not happy about it anyway as I have done my money on it. They would want it shipped back and yadda yadda. I saw another seller that sells the Optima-150 and the laser they have doesn't have a solder "blob" but a "static protection bar" in the socket.
The Saturn I got the laser from was just a parts unit anyway, it is missing a power supply. It was an American console at the video game shop I do repairs for, some Galah plugged it into the power point without looking (live in Australia) and blew the power supply up. They asked me to repair it for them and I looked at the power input and noticed it was an odd shape (flat one side of the figure 8 connector, in Australia it is rounded both sides), then saw the specs "input 120v"...... They gave it to me for parts.
Anyway, bit off topic that....
I believe I purchased the Sega CD2 lid and spring from you from Assembler forums?
I have another 2 Sega CD2's to fix up, (both use the Samsung SOH-OT4 laser) one needed the lid, the other needs a new laser, which I have ordered (different supplier) hopefully I have better luck. The supplier of the Samsung laser also has the JVC one so if it works out I will get one from them. I have confirmed both Sega CD2's work as I swapped the laser's back and forth.
Hello folks
Yep another bump of this thread.
I had trouble getting the Samsung SOH-OT4 laser for my Sega CD2. It never showed up so I had to go elsewhere but had trouble finding it. I did find however Samsung SOH90-T4N quite easily. Some sites (mostly Russian?) showed it as SOH90-T4/SOH-OT4.
I thought, with the luck these Sega CD2's have given me (bad), I had nothing else to lose. I bought it from Liberty electronics as I had luck with them on the Optima-6S laser to fix another Sega CD2 (the only downer was they sent me laser only not the whole mech as I paid for).
Well I installed it this morning and it works! So if you have to replace the laser in a Sega CD2 fitted with the Samsung SOH-OT4 laser, the SOH90-T4N will work. Strangely the box says SOH90-T4N where the label on the laser itself says SOH-OT4......
The only difference from the original laser is this one has a plastic body, which is slightly larger and the laser head is a bit wider. This is all that probably distinguishes from the 2, pin for pin they are the same.
To install it I had to pop off the gear that moves the laser, whereas usually you could just wiggle the metal bodied one in place.