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Article #2713Re: Repetitive clicks when playing tapes
From: Dan Koller*
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:10
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:10
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In article <1992Apr7.202744.760@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes: >Do the clicks correlate with the rotation of one or the other of the >little reels in the cassette? > >Do you get them when playing all tapes or only some? > >I've had clicks of this kind result from a tape being exposed to a >magnet of some sort. > >-- >========================================================================== >Michael A. Covington, Ph.D. | mcovingt@uga.cc.uga.edu | ham radio N4TMI >Artificial Intelligence Programs | U of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 U.S.A. >========================================================================== A possible source of the clicks is static discharge. I once had a TEAC tape, with two little aluminum reels inside the cassette shell. When rewinding, the think acted just like a van de Graaf generator, producing a discharge from one reel to the other!!! I threw the cassette out immediately! I suppose a bit of static buildup might occur in other tapes at low speed, producing little clicks when a discharge occurs. Danube
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!news.UU.NET!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!udel!sbcs.sunysb.edu!dirac!danube From: danube@dirac.physics.sunsyb.edu (Dan Koller*) Subject: Re: Repetitive clicks when playing tapes Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:10:09 GMT Message-ID: <1992Apr10.181009.27632@dirac.physics.sunsyb.edu> References: <1992Apr7.194936.8306@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Apr7.202744.760@athena.cs.uga.edu> Lines: 22