I own an old Seeburg SS160 jukebox which suddenly started playing very slow.?
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at
11:12 am
This happened suddenly as the speed all the sudden was reduced to a crawl. does anyone have any suggestions?
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That SOUNDS like a bad motor cap. However, it could be anything from a bad motor to motor speed control unit (don’t remember if that unit has one), to a problem in the power supply.
It is impossible to diagnose a jukebox without being there, so I can only throw speculation. You should find a qualified repair specalist because there is line-level voltage (120vac or whatever your mains supply is) in that area and you may cause harm to yourself, or make the problem with your jukebox worse than what it already is.
I just happened across this blog and thought I’d comment. The same thing happened to my ss160. I turned it off and later when I turned it on again, it was okay. I had played it for a long time when it all of a sudden played slow. I know nothing, but looking at the manual, I started thinking that it was playing at 33rpm because of how the speed is controlled with some sort of mechanism that reduces the cycles from 80 to 60. Maybe it was triggered by overheating. Does this make any sense? If it happens again, what is the solution? Thank you.