How to strengthen the Saturn Lazer

[CDiablo]

I have a Saturn that intermittently reads disks and I was wondering if anyone has a doc on how to strengthen the the lazer on a Sega Saturn 1. Ive done this before to a Gamecube and it fixed it right up so I hope this will do the same.

[Cinder6]

Open it up, take off the RF plate, pull out the drive assembly, and turn the orange screw that's under the laser. Clockwise, I believe.

[CDiablo]

Open it up, take off the RF plate, pull out the drive assembly, and turn the orange screw that's under the laser. Clockwise, I believe.

Thanks for the reply, is there an optimal setting that can be read by multimeter?

[Cinder6]

I don't know, never looked into it that hard. When mine wasn't reading, I just did a quarter-turn.

[SnowKitty]

I don't know, never looked into it that hard. When mine wasn't reading, I just did a quarter-turn.

you don't wanna crank the resistance too far down, you'll shorten the life of your laser. just poke the pot with a multimeter and step the resistance down little by little (maybe 10 ohms at a time or so more or less) till it reads CDs better

[Cinder6]

you don't wanna crank the resistance too far down, you'll shorten the life of your laser. just poke the pot with a multimeter and step the resistance down little by little (maybe 10 ohms at a time or so more or less) till it reads CDs better

I would have paid more attention to it, had the Saturn not been messed up in other ways. It's not my main system. Good advice, though.