Rowe CD100C bill acceptor and CD-Rs?

[phroziac]

Recently bought a Rowe CD100C, I repaired the animation so it works now. It did not come with a bill acceptor at all. There's a 6 pin plug near where the bill acceptor goes. I bought a Mars AE 2411 U7 bill acceptor with the flashport on ebay for cheap. Already had the bracket installed on it, just slid it right in the jukebox. But the jukebox has a 6 pin connector near the bill acceptor, and the bill acceptor has a 9 pin...both are male. I can't seem to find an adapter anywhere for this.

Also, is the coin return button supposed to be almost entirely useless?

And sometimes if a coin is rejected, it doesnt end up in the coin return, it ends up inside the jukebox somewhere. Am i missing a part to help guide it to the coin return?

Of course, I'm just using this thing in my house, but i want it to be fully functioning and legit.

Also, the people I bought it from had used it in a bar. It was fully loaded with 100 cds, a few of these were CD-Rs, most of those play just fine. There is one that doesnt, and every time i burn a CD-R to play in it, it will play sometimes and not play other times. Might get 3 or 4 random tracks to play off an entire CD. What gives? It has a CDM-4. I tried cleaning the lens, using different media, but nothing seems to help much.

[Ken Layton]

Rowe made a kit to convert from the original Rowe "CBA-2" bill acceptor that was supplied with the machine to a modern Mars (a.k.a. MEI Global) bill acceptor. The original CBA-2 operated on 12 volts DC. The new Mars bill acceptor operates on 115 volts AC. The Rowe conversion kit contained all the mounting brackets, hardware and a new wiring harness to connect with the Mars bill acceptor.

You need the new wiring harness.

[ed12]

they were never really intened not to use burns

>Also, the people I bought it from had used it in a bar. It was fully loaded with 100 cds, a few of these were CD-Rs, most of those play just fine. There is one that doesnt, and every time i burn a CD-R to play in it, it will play sometimes and not play other times. Might get 3 or 4 random tracks to play off an entire CD. What gives? It has a CDM-4. I tried cleaning the lens, using different media, but nothing seems to help much.<

ed

[phroziac]

Rowe made a kit to convert from the original Rowe "CBA-2" bill acceptor that was supplied with the machine to a modern Mars (a.k.a. MEI Global) bill acceptor. The original CBA-2 operated on 12 volts DC. The new Mars bill acceptor operates on 115 volts AC. The Rowe conversion kit contained all the mounting brackets, hardware and a new wiring harness to connect with the Mars bill acceptor.

You need the new wiring harness.

Thanks....Still looking for it.

they were never really intened not to use burns

>Also, the people I bought it from had used it in a bar. It was fully loaded with 100 cds, a few of these were CD-Rs, most of those play just fine. There is one that doesnt, and every time i burn a CD-R to play in it, it will play sometimes and not play other times. Might get 3 or 4 random tracks to play off an entire CD. What gives? It has a CDM-4. I tried cleaning the lens, using different media, but nothing seems to help much.<

ed

Well, i wish i knew if there was a certain medium i could use or something to make it work. Or maybe its something about the way im burning them. I find it funny that it has some that work 100% fine, and ones that i make work more like 2% of the time. I'm starting to consider putting the mp3 hard drive kit in it, but i feel kind of bad doing that. I guess no one'll notice except for me though...

[ed12]

there is i just forget it
its in the way the codec see's track 0 of the disk >control track and serial#<

ed

[phroziac]

there is i just forget it
its in the way the codec see's track 0 of the disk >control track and serial#<

ed

Very interesting..... hmm

[bbee383]

I burn mine from Itunes and the key seems to be to burn slow (4x).
 I have had about 90% success doing this with Memorex CD-r

[jdemarti]

I second bbee383's post about using itunes and slowing down the write speed. That is the only way I can get my CDPRO (gen1) and earlier players to have a good chance of playing burned CDs.  I believe it wasn't until the release of the CDPRO2M (1254/31) that eliminated the majority of the trouble reading CD-Rs and CD-RWs.

[Karetaker]

If it was me I would just tap into AC to power your DBV. Then just splice the switch input of the DBV onto the quarter switch. Just put it on 4 pulses for a dollar. I'm not surprised a CDM-4 isn't reading burned CD's. I'm surprised it is reading store bought CD's considering it's age.