CCD Sensors or charged-coupled devices are one of my favorite things to pull.
it's hard to explain but they excite me more than pulling a basic cpu or ram.
even though they may have more value then ccd's, I just value ccd's above the monetary value, I guess we all have quirks when keeping things.
In particular i'm only really into the one dimensional ccd's, the ones you can find in fax, scanners, 3 in 1 printers, copiers ect,
other types of ccd's aren't very common for me like digital ccd camera's, medical imaging and other high tech stuff,
even if I have scrapped out something like that I probably didn't recognise what the ccd was.
Silver or Gold, i'm not fussed, i'd take tin if it's worth a crust.
I have a scanner on hand so I thought i'd pull a ccd out
4 screws,a few seconds and it's all open, wish everything was so easy & clean.
Here's the ccd board right there, too easy.
I keep the bar the cradle slides along too, not sure for what but too good for shred.
This one is actually a perfect specimen to show, can you see the white strip going across? that's a very brittle little fluoro tube,
just like a regular fluoro tube, it contains a little mercury, they break real easy, like rice paper almost, you really gotta try and remove it cleanly or avoid it all together.
3 screws removed the ccd board and the transformer board, leaving the fluoro tube & cord intact. this cradle doesn't have a finger strip as a lot have.
That's about as simple as anything is to scrap and I get a thrill everytime, great value.
Oh, going back to the scanner shell, that little no grade board with two switches,
like you all know they have a spittle of silver in most, I peeled the top off this one
and there's a little gold plated tab, on top of the spittle of silver, I took one out and it's sitting
next to the switch on the right.
Anyone else collect CCD Sensors?
To me they remind me of looking into a shop window with real expensive things,
I can look but I can't touch kind of thing.
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