Toshiba DVD Recorder D-R4 tray sensor prob

[JR North]

Trying to remove a jammed disc in the tray, I broke a sensor mounted
near the front of the drive chassis. Pics here:
http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth/dvd.html

I googled the sensor part #, no joy. It's too damaged to determine
it's function. A window in the tray parks over this location when the
tray reaches it's home park. The recorder won't run, sets a code ERROR
7071- which is a fault code for the DVD drive.
Can anyone explain what this sensor does, how I can find a
replacement, or can suggest a workaround. I got a couple used Toshiba
DVD players of similar model year from the local thrift store; good
units and $5.00 each. They have different drives of course, and they
don't have the same sensor configuration. Still looking for a parts
dog, but no joy yet.
Thoughts?
JR

 

[N_Cook]

JR North <junkjasonrnorth@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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Trying to remove a jammed disc in the tray, I broke a sensor mounted
near the front of the drive chassis. Pics here:
http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth/dvd.html

I googled the sensor part #, no joy. It's too damaged to determine
it's function. A window in the tray parks over this location when the
tray reaches it's home park. The recorder won't run, sets a code ERROR
7071- which is a fault code for the DVD drive.
Can anyone explain what this sensor does, how I can find a
replacement, or can suggest a workaround. I got a couple used Toshiba
DVD players of similar model year from the local thrift store; good
units and $5.00 each. They have different drives of course, and they
don't have the same sensor configuration. Still looking for a parts
dog, but no joy yet.
Thoughts?
JR

some sort of sub min switch, how many traces in the ribbon? single or
change-over ? is there space to jury-rig something bigger , not neccessarily
in the original posistion ?