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Pioneer CDJ-500's heating up too quickly recently

  • 30-12-2004 2:49pm
    #1
    Seanie M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭


    I've got 2 Pioneer CDJ-500's, almost 3 years old. Have both seen good use, and never failed me.

    Though recently I have been getting alarm bells for cause for concern. They seem to be heating up rather quickly compared to their usual rate that these players normally would do. They don't have cooling fins on the back like the new 800's and 1000's do.

    The 500's are supposed to heat up, but during recent 2/2.5 hour gigs, they heated up so much that 1 of them skipped a cd back to the beginning twice during a gig. The heat that the underside has been at the end of a gig on both players recently was so hot, it was as if I had just done a 5 or 6 hour gig (as I have done before, and noticed how hot they got).

    Has anyone noticed this heat problem with them before, or might even know what causes it? I thought that somehow, more laser radiation is bouncing around inside that is causing the heating up. I also rewrote my entire cd collection to new superb quality silver cd-r's, and I wonder if they could be causing excess bounce of the laser - if there is such a thing?

    Cheers,

    Seanie.


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  • #2
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    Odd problem allright,
    even the way its two of them heating up.. could have said one of them could be on the way out.. but chance of both goign like that at the same time...
    I would have said it has nothing to do with the new cd collection you burned but the fact being that two of them are over heating puzzels me...


  • #3
    Seanie M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Seanie M


    Thats why I thought the cd's could be the problem. but the majority of them are Verbatim, which is an excellent quality of cd-r, so thats why I am puzzled too!

    :mad:


  • #4
    Lenny
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,389 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lenny


    Better qualityu cd's would hold heat better/longer so i'd say thats why the cdj's are getting hoter
    have you tried playing with your old cds for a few hours?


  • #5
    Seanie M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Seanie M


    Not yet again, Lenny, primarily because of the ease of transporting my new collection in a flight case, and not having 3 seperate megawallets and a shoulder bag for what was! But, tomorrow night, I am doing a 4+ hour gig in Mullingar for New Years, so I think I mght just do that and see what the players are like after the first 1/1.5 hours.

    Seanie.


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