10 pin cd player diode.

[Sefrez]

I took the diode out of an old cd player. Yeah... I know there pretty useless. But I still want to see if I can get it to power up. It has 10 pins, 5 on each side. Anyone know what the power and ground pins are?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jimmymcjimthejim]

Lol. Pictures please!
You might want to start with the diode test function on a digital multimeter.

 

[Chad]

if it has that many pins, chances are it does a few different functions... might be a power-variable diode, or a photodiode, or something completely different.

PICS!

 

[Sefrez]

It's on a small circuit board.

Heres it out lined. (sorry for blur)

 

[Switch]

As I remember , these had 3 functional pins and the rest are completely unused.Could be mistaken though.You can search for a datasheet aswell.... :-/

 

[diachi]

That looks like a photodiode to me ...

The only 10 Pin diodes I have seen are from laptop CD drives, they have all the the photodiodes and the laser diodes inside them so that it takes up a lot less space.

 

[Sefrez]

You know what.... I feel so dumb right this minute... Thats the reader like you said. I think I found the diode. It's pretty small and hiding in the plastic with a lens on the output side. It's hocked to a circuit board by three pins and on the circut board there is a pot. So this has to be it!

Wow, I feel stupid :