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Tape loops and food. Followed. Could do without the food though.Ugly Nora wrote:This guy has lots of really great tape loops and modded players and toys and shit. Deserves more followers.
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if its anything like my module, i dont think its gonna "burn out" the motor. The motors run off say a 9V battery, so the unit takes the CV and regulates it to 0-5V. I don't see how that's gonna hurt the motor? Don't see how that could hurt the tape in any way either.Ugly Nora wrote:Maybe his business model is selling the cassette player over and over when they break ?
Well I was half joking about the ink jet comparison. I don't understand the scientific explanation, but I think the concern is just excessive wear and tear by using it in a manner it was not intended, thus decreasing its life span.Uncle Grandfather wrote:if its anything like my module, i dont think its gonna "burn out" the motor. The motors run off say a 9V battery, so the unit takes the CV and regulates it to 0-5V. I don't see how that's gonna hurt the motor? Don't see how that could hurt the tape in any way either.Ugly Nora wrote:Maybe his business model is selling the cassette player over and over when they break ?
Uncle Grandfather wrote:if its anything like my module, i dont think its gonna "burn out" the motor. The motors run off say a 9V battery, so the unit takes the CV and regulates it to 0-5V. I don't see how that's gonna hurt the motor? Don't see how that could hurt the tape in any way either.Ugly Nora wrote:Maybe his business model is selling the cassette player over and over when they break ?
I dunno really, but looks like that Walkman has a speed control and the om-1 is just doing the adjusting with CV. I assume adjusting the voltage is what the knob does? Kinda similar to adjusting pitch or tape speed on a 4 track tape recorder for instance. Gotta assume the designer is operating within safe range for the motor.Ugly Nora wrote:Well I was half joking about the ink jet comparison. I don't understand the scientific explanation, but I think the concern is just excessive wear and tear by using it in a manner it was not intended, thus decreasing its life span.Uncle Grandfather wrote:if its anything like my module, i dont think its gonna "burn out" the motor. The motors run off say a 9V battery, so the unit takes the CV and regulates it to 0-5V. I don't see how that's gonna hurt the motor? Don't see how that could hurt the tape in any way either.Ugly Nora wrote:Maybe his business model is selling the cassette player over and over when they break ?
Except I bought 10 walkmans for under $30jrfox92 wrote:http://www.landscape.fm/lordgalvar wrote:Or take the drive shaft out of a cassette player and attach it to a crank to spin it at any speed. Or attach it to a computer fan motor (and burn those out). That is what I used to see people do (the crank one...I may have just thought of the fan motor or maybe I've seen it, but I am sure someone has done it...I dunno). Actually, I have a lot of walkmans I bought sitting around. I was going to make a ring mod out of them
Onde Magnétique/Landscape future partnership?
. And that doesn't have an external motor.Aren't we talking about DC motors?lordgalvar wrote:Except I bought 10 walkmans for under $30jrfox92 wrote:http://www.landscape.fm/lordgalvar wrote:Or take the drive shaft out of a cassette player and attach it to a crank to spin it at any speed. Or attach it to a computer fan motor (and burn those out). That is what I used to see people do (the crank one...I may have just thought of the fan motor or maybe I've seen it, but I am sure someone has done it...I dunno). Actually, I have a lot of walkmans I bought sitting around
Onde Magnétique/Landscape future partnership?
If we are going there:
There is always a chance of premature wear on a motor when low or high voltaging them. AC motors are especially prone to low voltage wear (which is why tools saw only use this gauge and this length or under of ext cord).
Also doubt that is his business model. More likely just a necessary thing to offer is their will always be failures with reused stuff like that. It would have probably just been better to build his own setup but that is another nightmare I am sure (machining, etc) which would drive up the cost more.
Cool, good to know. I didn't look too deep into it but was under the assumption these small DC motors were rated to operate from like 0 to some max voltage. I'm putting together a little electro acoustic set up using the modular to control motors etc. thankfully these motors are dirt cheaplordgalvar wrote:Yea, I am just saying that those come with warnings. DC motors can have the same problems. When I was working on the floppy disc delay, it is really easy to burn those spinning motors out with different voltages. Some don't have that problem. I wouldn't imagine that the risk is too high with the cassette players, just saying that there is always the risk.
Yeah Im not really worried, I've done similar speed stuff with tapes and my portastudio for over 20 years with no problems.lordgalvar wrote:I wouldn't worry about it haha. It all depends on the way the motor spins (there are a few different ways). More likely the bearings/shaft construction or something mechanical break first. That is usually what happens with those DC fans (I've pushed those up over 10v from like 3 or 5 V operating just fine).
Which is probably most likely to break in those cassette players (or the wheels get worn or head goes bad). Haha, they aren't always the best quality.
You can say that again.lordgalvar wrote:Which is probably most likely to break in those cassette players (or the wheels get worn or head goes bad). Haha, they aren't always the best quality.
