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ami-man:
Hello roweti1,

The instructions you posted are correct, it is rare to have to adjust the rear wiper because being at the back of the board it is unlikely to be messed around with.

I would clean those contacts with a pencil rubber or one of those fibre glass pencils (used by watch repairers for battery contacts).

Have a close look at your board to make sure that there is no hairline cracks in any of the tracks both on the front and rear of the pcb. If you find a crack as long as it isnt in the slip ring circles then it can be repaired by cleaning the track and soldering a short piece of fuse wire across the break (I use 20 or 30 amp fuse wire tinned before soldering into place) It is not pretty but functional.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK

Patrick Camden:
Thank you very much jdemarti and Alan for your help and quick reply.

Sorry for the delay in replying, a few things popped up on what was supposed to be a free weekend to tinker with the jukebox.  Before I changed the wires as suggested I turned the jukebox on to see if everything was still working (It has been on the landing for a few years) and now I have a Ram Error 1 message, CCC may malfunction unless ram corrected.  I've searched online and it may be the battery is low/dead or the CCC unit needs changing.  I've tried to clear errors in the service menu but the final confirm (Popular button) doesn't seem to be going through, so the *Clear Errors* message doesn't flash.

Do I have to change the CCC or the battery (I believe it is soldered on to the CCC unit, or so I've read) or could it be something else caused from powering up the jukebox without the internal speakers wired up, it was working fine previously (apart from speakers).
Is it worth having someone in to take a look, sending parts off to be checked or buying new parts, or would this be something I could attempt to fix on my own first.

Thanks.

jdemarti:
No problem, Patrick.  Glad we can help.

About your CCC. I recall seeing that RAM problem before and I think that the Eprom may be getting close to malfunctioning. I want to say that the issue went away when I changed the Eprom and the battery, but not 100% sure. 

Alan, what do you think?

The battery is easy to change out; a 5 minute job. All you need is a 2032 battery and battery holder, soldering iron, solder sucker and new solder. I carry the latest v4.3 Eproms. It is a simple plug-in socket connection.

John

roweti1:
I got home from work today and went back to work on the Jukebox. I had the wiper 180 degrees out of sink, also the contacts on S2 were dirty. After fixing them the Jukebox started playing and picking songs. But I still have the same problems I had before I tried cleaning the PCB..... If you choose any of the T or U selections it plays the record in the position 1 number lower. An example would be if you pushed T6 it would play T5, this happens with both T and U only. Another problem is if I choose  C2 or E2 the carousel makes two full revolutions and just stops.Sometimes if you choose A1 you get the same results... Also If you chose A2 it plays A3, Other than that all the other selections seem to play fine. Occasionally it will play an incorrect song but not often. Maybe out of 30 or 40 plays Ill get one song that I didn't choose. Also an unrelated problem is it seems to be playing a little to fast. 

ami-man:
Hello roweti1,

On the button bank is two open relays (usually under a plastic cover) open the top door to gain access.
Use a paper taper to clean the open & closed contacts, if this does not cure the fault the issue may be down to the keyboard, however check the long connection on the search unit for alignment of all the tracks, use a meter to check the continuity from each connection back to the keyboard.


If all of the above is ok and your still have issues then you will have to clean the keyboard switches.
I find the best way to do this is to use video head cleaner (I know a spray after all I have said) but if you spay on about 4 of the open switches at a time and work the switches well before the spay dries this will clean the contact surfaces of the switches (switch the jukebox off before doing this).

Please let me know how you get on.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man

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