Rowe R83 Picks Its Own Records To Play

Hi All

My R-83 animated lights work as intended, which is great! An issue I have that is annoying, is that after sitting unplayed for various lengths of time, the jukebox seems to wake up and goes and plays a record of it's own choosing! It always chooses to play the "B" side of the record. I can not find any type of play stimulator that would casue this strange behavior.

What are some areas I need to look at to try to stop this unwated record playing from repeating?

Best
Darrell

Darrell,
Does that model use a CCC ? If so, which number ?
Ron Rich

Hi Darrell,

Have a look at the Memory Unit 301-07855, on the left hand side there is a switch marked up Autoplay Switch, it needs sitching to off.

If set to 20min it will play at random the least played B side if no record has been selected.

If set to 40min it will play at random the least played B side if no record has been selected.

If set to Continuous it will play B sides at random.

If the switch is set to off then there is a fault on the LSI chip that can't be fixed (basically it has burnt a selection into its memory) this fault only shows up when a record is selected and it then plays this additional record every time the mechanism scans around until the service switch is turned off.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK

Morning Ron

Yes it does have some computers in it. I think you are asking about the MEMOREC Selection Computer (401-07139).

There is also 4 more:

Credit Computer 6-07674-01

Selector Logic 6-08060-01

Memory Unit 3-07855-01

Mech Control Unit 4-06905-01

Best
Darrell

Hi Darrell,
Sorry--I don't know that model well enough to answer your question--but I would guess that one of the LSI's was on it's "way-out", if there is no switch.
Ron Rich

Ron

Thank you, what does LSI stand for?

Best
Darrell

Hi Darrell,
LSI is the type of "chip" used-- Large scale integration.
Ron Rich