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Rock-ola mystery wire
« on: June 10, 2014, 06:16:12 pm »
Hi everyone! New to posting here. Been surfing this site before for help with my Mk cab a while back and have recently acquired a 89/90 Rock-ola Laser 2000x jukebox. Something I had absolutely no knowledge of before a few weeks ago...
    The machine seems to want to work. Accepts credits, allows selections, magazine rotates.... first problem. Gripper didn't grip and wouldn't go through full motions without "help"
Cleaned up that mess. Everything mechanical seems to be working fine now... Notice the cd only stays on tray about 1 second and is then lifted and returned. And that the Cd motor seems to be dead. Not sure if the motor would cause the cd to be rejected so quickly and believe I have 2 problems somewhere... Grounds checked... external fuses checked... found an ice cube relay that had a bent pin from someone jamming it in wrong...  now the cd rotates!!!  but not at speed... Going to dig into that after I figure out if I am missing a wire from the cpu to the Cd player box.
           There are 2 purple wires coming from the cpu at the cd connection. One goes to the cd box and the other one (purple with white stripe) has a quick connector with nothing plugged into it. I noticed that the plug on the Cd box is also missing one wire. I'm hoping someone has one of these machines and can help, because I can't make any sense of the schematics from rock-ola and they seem to be for a different model. "Nostalgic" series If anyone has links to a correct manual or simply could confirm I am missing something here I would greatly appreciate it. Love to see this thing working again
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Re: Rock-ola mystery wire
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2014, 12:10:30 am »
Suggest hopping over to the jukebox forum at www.phonoland.com

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Re: Rock-ola mystery wire
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2014, 03:43:22 am »
Tyvm! I searched for juke forums, but I guess I missed this one srs thanks. Good to get an account here tho. Always got my eye out for another cab!