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How to power LEDs in a Touchtunes Allegro jukebox?
billgates2:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on August 02, 2023, 07:27:37 pm ---pics for example... current juke in the works...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zXsjfx48XbV9mEe26
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Nice!
Just out of curiosity, before I get rid of the TT PC I received from ebay, I was able to get it to boot up into the jukebox. Are these PCs worth anything if able to successfully log in? Oddly enough I still can't get the LEDs to work even using an ethernet cable from the "DMX out" slot on the PC to the "DMX in" slot on the IO board. It's been fun tinkering with it though.
billgates2:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on August 01, 2023, 10:04:53 am ---I can say for certain, the factory lightshow does not operate until the touchtunes software boots into the user interface and it loads the settings (configurable in the operator panel) for how the light show will act from a configuration. none of which will happen if you are not an operator, the machine is in good standing with TT (IE not disabled or blacklisted), and the machine is not locked out due to it not communicating over the internet with TT in the last 30 days. in a nutshell the machine will not boot if you aren't a juke operator with touchtunes.
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It does say the lightshow is set to On in operator settings, but I'm wondering if the reason it isn't working is because the IO board doesn't have power to the 12vdc? It has power from the "power from pc" cable, but it didn't come with a 12vdc cord and I wasn't sure what power rating it was and didn't want to fry it by using the wrong power rated cord.
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: billgates2 on August 06, 2023, 06:23:25 pm ---Just out of curiosity, before I get rid of the TT PC I received from ebay, I was able to get it to boot up into the jukebox. Are these PCs worth anything if able to successfully log in? Oddly enough I still can't get the LEDs to work even using an ethernet cable from the "DMX out" slot on the PC to the "DMX in" slot on the IO board. It's been fun tinkering with it though.
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the battery in the computer has likely died, so it's just running on default right now with the time and date set to whatever the last time/date the juke had when it last run. depending on when that was and the last time it checked in, it will be somewhere inside the 720 hour countdown has already started. if you look in the operator screen logs, you'll see that it has XXX hours left until deactivation. it must connect to touchtunes before this runs out. when it does, it will be updated to the correct time/date and will be immediately disabled.
and while the MJS computer is worth something to somebody... i literally just threw away 10 of them (kept all the aluminum for scrap value.) and the gen3 software is super outdated compared to gen3+ (running on JCB computers) and openstage2 (on everything virtuo and up)
--- Quote from: billgates2 on August 06, 2023, 07:07:29 pm ---It does say the lightshow is set to On in operator settings, but I'm wondering if the reason it isn't working is because the IO board doesn't have power to the 12vdc? It has power from the "power from pc" cable, but it didn't come with a 12vdc cord and I wasn't sure what power rating it was and didn't want to fry it by using the wrong power rated cord.
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yeah the light show boards operate on 12v it is powered by a separate 12v power supply shared with the monitor (which is supposed to be plugged into the IO board on the other side so it can be powered off and on by the power button.
uses the barrel jack input... any center positive supply of about 2 amps should work to power the lights (i believe the original supply is 5ish amps to power the monitor and the lights (and the coin acceptor if so equipped)
billgates2:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on August 07, 2023, 07:45:32 pm ---yeah the light show boards operate on 12v it is powered by a separate 12v power supply shared with the monitor (which is supposed to be plugged into the IO board on the other side so it can be powered off and on by the power button.
uses the barrel jack input... any center positive supply of about 2 amps should work to power the lights (i believe the original supply is 5ish amps to power the monitor and the lights (and the coin acceptor if so equipped)
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Doh! Thank you - simple fix and now I feel stupid lol. I had the IO power plugged directly into the monitor. Now that it's working, I can feel accomplished and finally ditch the old PC and mod it with my own. I'm waiting on parts to come in but will post pics of finished product!
lilshawn:
no worries! it's kind of a dumb setup... but i can see why they did it. makes it a little easier to service and allowed control of the power to switch it off and on.
i suspect that you could power the lights directly (red and black) with 12v and run a data signal over the blue wire. (likey DMX512 or something like that.)
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