Re: testing SFD1001 spindle speed

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:48:02 +0100
Message-ID: <7db7c800-2322-45bb-90ad-02827c6eaf1e_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 2/12/25 14:27, Francesco Messineo wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM <groepaz_at_gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2025, 14:03:34 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb
>> Francesco Messineo:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I've just recapped a Panasonic JU-570-2 with horribly leaking
>>> capacitors that ate a few traces on the spindle PCB. Now before
>>> assembling back the SDF-1001 I wanted to test and correct the spindle
>>> speed if needed. However the drive motor doesn't have the strobo
>>> patterns, so an alternate method must be used. Does anyone know if any
>>> of the programs on the test/demo disks can help? Images as many of you
>>> know are here:
>>> https://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/demodisks/drives/index.html
>>> Does anyone know any test point on the spindle PCB? I think pin 6 of
>>> the motor controller IC could be a good place to look, but I figured
>>> out someone must already know how to do this task.
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> Frank IZ8DWF
>>
>> Perhaps you can adapt one of these programs to the sfd:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/code/HEAD/tree/testprogs/drive/rpm/
> 
> thanks, those could be a good starting point indeed :)
> I think the only one that could be suitable is rpm3 (with or without
> changing the target track formatted) since the other two need properly
> formatted disks that I don't have (yet).
> 
> However (full disclosure), the JU-570 mechanics has the index sensor
> and the control board isn't using it, so I can add a little resistor
> to Vcc to read the pulses (phototransistor wires are coming to P1
> connector) and use a time interval counter (200 ms is the nominal
> pulse interval). I was just hoping there was a faster way.

You could make a photo of the strobo pattern from a 1541, print it and 
glue it onto the spindle of the SFD-1001. Assuming the SFD-1001 also 
uses 300 rpm, that should work.

  Gerrit
Received on 2025-02-12 15:00:39

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