newest project: SEEBURG SMC1!

[vintagegamer]

Well, the wife thought she might like to have a jukebox next to the games, so I just got home with one that I've been talking to the seller on all this week: the Seeburg SMC1! It plays records but you have to manually feed it the record right now (the selection from the keypad up top doesn't seem to work). BUT, it powers up, and the lights come on, so it's got a heartbeat! I'll add pics soon, but wondered if there are any other SMC1 owners out in these forums?

VG

[mccoy178]

Nice!  I just started an announcement thread about the Rowe R-83 I picked up this weekend.  Do you have any pics for us?

[mountain]

Yeah, lets see some 

[vintagegamer]

I have to get it off the truck today but will definitely post some.

[vintagegamer]

Here is a pic of the front that the seller had provided to me:

[mccoy178]

Very cool!

[vintagegamer]

Below are some more pics- the display is showing garbage, so I guess something's up with the memory or chipset.  There is a guy in the area who apparently repairs these, but I'm feeling like his pricing is a little steep ($75 to come to house to see it, $55/hr not including parts).  But, I'm sure that working on these things is an art in itself as well.  Trying to figure out if I should bite the bullet and let the guy have at it- the prior owner put about $200 in parts into this unit already, along with $30 in manuals, and it's still not working yet.  I'm afraid of following in his footsteps..

VG

[Kevin Mullins]

One of the better style jukeboxes. I'd like to find one of those one of these days.
Great score!!   

[Chris]

Wow!  Nice... any way you could get a clean well-lit shot of the selection area and a close up of the control panel?  The aspect ratio of the selection area is perfect for making a DWJukebox skin from....

That is a beauty... I had not seen that model before.

--Chris

[vintagegamer]

Thanks Chris- I'll try to get some more pics tonight.

VG

[vintagegamer]

Some further updates regarding my troubleshooting:

I added fresh batteries into the MCU.  Upon reading the manuals, one
of the things that you can apparently do to test the unit is put the
unit into Service mode, and hit the scan button to move the carriage.
I placed the unit in Service mode, and the red LED does not light up.
Thinking maybe there is something wrong with the LED, I pressed the
scan button regardless.  There was no further activity by the carriage
or anything else upon pressing the SCAN button.


Tony Miller had advised the prior owner that to troubleshoot the LED
issue, to do the following:


"not having the LED come on when you go into service mode would
indicate that the +12 VDC supply on the PCC interface board is not
working.  The regulator on this board also provides the power supply
to the logic on this board and +12 VDC to the mechanism.  You should
check to verify this regulator works.  In addition, you should check
VRAW to the MCU on PCC J3107 pin 7.  It should be about +21 VDC."


I would like to be able to perform the above check, and I have a
multimeter, but I need this translated in a little bit more menial
terms.  First, I need to know what to set the multimeter to (DC I
assume, but which setting?).  Then, if someone can tell me where to
touch the contact points to from the multimeter on the regulator on
the PCC without lighting myself up, I'll be glad to check it and
provide an update.


Thanks,


VG

[vintagegamer]

Went out to the garage on a wing and a prayer with my multimeter, set it to '200' on the DCV side, and gave it a go.  The connector is 3 pins wide, 4 pins high (total 12).  I went left to right-  If I did it right, this is what I got:

pin 1 (ground, I think- at least I used it as such)
pin 2  43.7
pin 3 11.0
pin 4 0
pin 5 0
pin 6 0
pin 7 21.5
pin 8 0
pin 9 0
pin 10 0
pin 11 0
pin 12 0

I don't know if this advises whether or not the regulator is working, but it answers one of the above questions regarding the VRAW for pin 7 (I think).  I'll keep trying if someone tells me what to do next.

VG

[StephenH]

Tony Miller's site has quite a bit of Seeburg info, and some repair guides for sale.

http://home.pacbell.net/fmillera/