Carousel doesn't work

I'm not sure if this will help, but when that happened to my CD player the solution was very simple. I removed the outter cover and took a Q-tip dampened with some alcohol and cleaned the little lens that reads the cd. It's a very common problem, and the fact that yours is 15 years old guarentees the lens is dirty. Some people trash their stero when It could've been good as new with just a Q-tip & little alcohol.

I hope it works!
Laura

The Carousel 850 is 40-45 years old. The symptoms you describe indicate the timing is off. Timing is an "adjust & test"..... try a SMALL adjustment and then test it.... adjust again & test again. Repeat until you get smooth tray action. See the attached illustration:

picture board failure
take it in for a diagnosis and quote before wasting money on home repairs

The first thing to try is to do a hard reset.

Unplug the unit for a minute or so. Then plug it back in, set the clock and try again.

If that doesn't work, leave it unplugged for about 5 minutes.

If it still doesn't work, it may need repair, which can be done for $39.95 in most cases.

does it have a float mechanism that senses the water level by any chance

don't forget that just turning down your fridge temp dose not mean your problem might be over yet. the freezer setting may also be too high & that will affect your fridge temp as well. i set both my control settings to around 50% of what is on the scale & that works perfect for my 7 yr old fridge. also, very important, is make sure the freezer portion is going through it's full defrost cycles, or it will freeze the upper portion inside the fridge. you should not have any frost build up in your fridge, nor should you have any in your freezer. that's why they call them FROST FREE. try the slow temp decrease over a period of a few days & hopefully that will work for you. good luck.

Hello
There is a belt that drives the chager tray. It is engaged with its loading motor pully and gear set that drives the tray mechnism. To replace the belt, you have to disassemble the mechanism. Actually it is a skilled work, and without knowing its disassembly method, it is almost impossible to repalce the belt by yourself. I've the dissasambly and reassembly method, described wiht help of pictures and all other details. If you have an interest to get it, you have to buy one amoung my audio services, advertised in Fixya site. Unlike previous Fixya site, this new site is different. With old site, I've the facility to send you pictures and PDF files, but with the new, I can't send any of such documents to you.
The document I've with me is an original published by Denon, Japan.
If you want to do this work by yourself, and want to get this document, do the needy. OK.

it sounds like you might need to clean the laser eye, try that and get back with me

If the pickup in the unit goes bad it can cause this. I'm not sure on a price of a pickup for your unit but it shouldn't be too expensive.

I have the same exact problem with my Onkyo C-707CHX and I found a solution that doesn't involve jamming any screws or other metal objects into your cd tray (which could most likely just cause more damage). This way seems a little safer: Power on your device and hit the open button. As soon as you hit the open button quickly push slightly with both hands on both sides of the cd tray that should be opening. You should hear the trays moving around in there and then you have to try to feel for a slight push from the tray. As soon as you feel that slight push, take your hands off of the tray and let it come out. This has been working for me for a while now (and hopefully will continue to work until I take it to get fixed somewhere). The only issue I have run into is that my "Disc 1" open button doesn't work with this method. So I just use this method with disc 2 or 3 and then once it's open I can hit the disc 1 button to get to that tray. So if it doesn't work with one tray, try the other two as well. Hope this helps.