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- From: wrb@cbnews.cb.att.com (wallace.r.blackburn)
- Subject: Re: Magnetic Sensor?
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:42:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.144219.13368@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan2.104609.4196@arizona.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan2.104609.4196@arizona.edu> dparker@ece.arizona.edu (Douglas R. Parker) writes:
- >Greetings.
- >
- >Quite a while back I attempted to repair the tape deck
- >in my Toyota. I found that one of the plastic shafts that
- >rotates the casette's tape wheel had cracked, leaving a gap
- >in the gear teeth. I assume the reason for malfunction and
- >subsequent devouring of many a tape was a perpetual End of
- >Tape being recieved. I tried using similar salvage parts to
- >replace the gear but this didn't work. The reason for this,
- >I think, is that the original gear had a small disk magnet
- >fixed to its base, and beneath it was a small surface mount
- >component. I assume this is some sort of a tape speed
- >regulation. My question? The matter is rather academic at this
- >point, as this was a good excuse to buy a CD unit. However,
- >I am still very curious as to how the thing worked. Although
- >my EMAG is rusty, I would guess that a rotating B field was
- >somehow used to induce current in this sensor, which was
- >then used as a feedback. Does anyone out there have experience
- >with this type of arrangement?
- >Just extremely curious,
- >
- >dparker@helios.ece.arizona.edu
- >
- >
-
- Good chance that it is (was) simply a Hall effect sensor. A micro in the
- deck used the square wave from the sensor to control the speed.
-
- I don't pretend to know the physics behind it, but a Hall effect sensor is,
- in effect, a magnet-controlled switch. Hysteresis makes the output kind of
- "spongy", though.
-