[Jukebox-list] Seeburg Q-160 selection button issue

[Aaron Heverin]

Hi Kevin,
Unfortunatetly, I'm at work right now and can't test...but what your describing seems to lead more to an electrical problem rather than a mechanical one...which is the direction Ron was taking. If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that the hold switchs are turning the solenoid on too quickly? That would make sense because as I said in a previous post, if I press a letter followed by a number...but don't press the number all the way till it bottoms out (i.e. a lot of pressing force)... both buttons unlatch. But if I go through the normal section process, as soon as I hit the number, the solenoid engages and since my finger is still holding the number key down, it obviously re-engages as a possible second selection. This whole thing happens in a half-second which is why it's hard to detect the problem. But this would explain why the buttons release when I do all of the manual testing...my finger isn't sitting on a button at the time I release the solnoid. With the exception of this really annoying problem, the jukebox is working perfectly.

Oh! One more question guys.....the mech cover has got a wire attached to one of the screws holding the Seeburg logo plastic to the top of the cover. When my brother-in-law brought the jukebox to my shop and we started to look things over, this wire - which is about 4 inches long - was just flapping around. Also on the top of the mech cover is a small hole with the remains of a rubber grommet lining the inside. I can't see any missing light bulb anywhere so I'm wondering where this wire goes. Is that plastic Seeburg plate supposed to light up??

Aaron


-----Original Message-----
From: goodwright goodwright at verizon.net
Sent 1/14/2008 10:44:59 AM
To: jukebox-list at lists.netlojix.com
Subject: [Jukebox-list] Seeburg Q-160 selection button issue

Aaron,

Check the adjustment and contact continuity on the "hold" switches in the 
Electrical Selector. They are supposed to keep the latch bar solenoid from 
re-engaging until all the keys have popped up after the previous selection. 
When you press the second selection button (usually a number), the selection 
is written into the tormat, credit subtracted, and latch bar solenoid 
released so fast that if the "hold" switch doesn't detect that your finger 
is still holding that second button down it will re-activate the latch bar 
solenoid and lock it before you know what's happened. I've had this trouble 
on a 161 and an SS160.

Cheers,

KevinG