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Modifying Playmaker mode to play the A sides
Hey there - nice to see so many familiar faces from the Pinball
newsgroup and doubly nice to see none of the infighting that goes on over there I have a vague memory of this being covered somewhere a number of years back... I thought Victory Glass offered a product which would do just this, but I eMailed them with the request and they eMailed me back that they never have and currently do not offer a product which does this. I have a Rowe R-88 jukebox. While I enjoy strolling up to the main unit or a wallbox and selecting by hand the songs I want to hear, sometimes I just want the jukebox to select them for me. Continuous Playmaker mode would do this for me, but unfortunately Playmaker mode will only play the B-sides of the records (after all, if Playmaker played the A sides, Playmaker mode would be a bit of an earnings killer). Does someone make a product which will "invert" a portion of the signal sent to the mech unit to transform a 2xx selection into a 1xx selection? And is it possible to separate the Playmaker-generated selections from the manually selected selections so the Playmaker generated selections would be transformed but the manual selected selections wouldn't? I suppose you'd need an inverter between the CCC and the mech controller *and* an inverter between the keypad and the CCC - with such a setup manually selected 1xx (or 2xx) selections would be inverted to a 2xx (or 1xx) selection in the CCC and then reinverted to the 1xx (or 2xx) selection when it went from the CCC to the mech controller, and the naturally generated 2xx selection generated from the playmaker module on the CCC would be transformed to a 1xx selection as well... Anything like that exist today? Thanks, -Chuck |
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Instead of building a circuit, why not just flip the records around in
the basket? Except for having to do the title strips over, probably less work. Of course, then you will only here the A sides. |
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I was just going to suggest that
Charlie Maier wrote: Instead of building a circuit, why not just flip the records around in the basket? Except for having to do the title strips over, probably less work. Of course, then you will only here the A sides. -- Ken In Texas http://www.pinballrebel.com Custom Pinball Cards, Jukeboxes, Drive In's "Never ask a man if he's from Texas. If he is, he'll tell you on his own. If he ain't, no need to embarrass him." |
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Thanks for all the responses - While putting all the records in the
basket backwards is probably the most elegant solution at first glance from a tinkering, cost and time perspective, I can't help but think that when people look at the jukebox or the wallboxes that they will notice that most of the "A" sides are obscure and all the "B" sides are really the "A" sides. I would prefer not to have to have the "Well it's because of Playmaker mode and this is what it does" conversation a thousand times so my friends understand why all the records are backwards. I anticipate a lot of blank stares. The person who would notice the most is me... I'm anal like that. Besides... redoing all my title strips (I make my own and have a minimum of six for each record - one juke strip and five wallbox strips) for the 1500 records I rotate through the juke doesn't really sound like my idea of fun. I'm leaning towards KLR's solution below - I know exactly what he's talking about and it shouldn't be too difficult to wire the power which goes to the two solenoids in question through an auxilliary cut switch to prevent B sides from playing at all. While it would be a manual process in having to remember to flip that switch on and off depending upon how the juke is being used, all the other alternatives which allow me to keep my records "right side up" involve modding the boards... something I'd prefer to avoid as my skillset doesn't include the skills necessary to do just that. But I kan sho' wire up dat switch lickety-split Thanks again for your time and your suggestions ! -Chuck KLR wrote in message . .. On 10 Nov 2004 00:01:07 -0800, (Chuck S) wrote: If its for home use - then wire a switch that cuts the power to both of the toggle coils (they are wired in parallel anyway) as the toggle coils are only energised in the transfer cycle when a B side is to be played. (This applies to ALL rowe solid state machines) |
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"Chuck S" wrote in message ... I can't help but think that when people look at the jukebox or the wallboxes that they will notice that most of the "A" sides are obscure and all the "B" sides are really the "A" sides. Plan B - Flip them over and change the numbers over by the title strips leaving the 'A' sides on top of the strip. Only a real nerd would spot this ! |
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