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Rowe CD100 problems... something new
On Thu, 8 May 2003 20:47:01 -0500, "Spookshow"
wrote: -------- that is just the optical switch out of alignment - and it occasionaly jumps forward one notch. Note - this means it jumps 2 NUMBERS - as the mech is numbered 00,02,04,06,......96,98,01,03.....etc. ---------- I haven't had a chance to delve into any of the previous suggestions (much appreciated, BTW), but I noticed a new problem this evening that I thought I'd throw out there as a possible further clue towards my base problem (or, as my luck would probably have it, some new, entirely unrelated problem). When selected a song XX,YY, the box will occasionally play XX+2,YY (same song number, CD number plus 2). I don't have precise statistics, but let's say about one out of every 10 plays. Could this also be related to a voltage problem, or does it point to something else? Thanks, -Mark "Spookshow" wrote in message . .. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check it out and see what I can find. -Mark "KLR" wrote in message ... On Wed, 7 May 2003 05:33:02 -0500, "Spookshow" wrote: I added a new CD and did a reindex and now am having all kinds of problems again. In the middle of playing a CD, the CD will stop spinning and the BOARD ERR light on the mechanism controller will come on. After a while, the BOARD ERR light on the CCC will come on (presumably because the mech controller isn't talking to it anymore) and after a while I get "OUT OF ORDER" on the main display. If I cycle power it'll recover for a while, but eventually the mech controller will get another BOARD ERR and shut down again. This once intermittent problem seems to be getting worse, and always seems to crop up after a full reindex. Up to now it's always gone away after a few days but this time seems to be worse than the others. Could this be a problem with the CD-PRO? Is there anything simple I can check, clean or adjust? Or should I just contact a Rowe servicer? Thanks for any advice, -Mark check that the power that is getting to the mech control board is adequate. These new CDM's are supposed to have a B+ of +9v rather than +8v as supplied by the older type CDM 3 power supply. To me - it sounds like the classic symptoms of voltage drop. more you use it - the hotter a bad joint gets - and the more the resistance rises -and the more voltage loss to the CDM - until it fails to work properly. resting it cools down the bad joint - and resistance lowers and thing works again for a while. I would try measuring the voltage on the mech control board and make sure its at least 9v. If not - then check at the power supply - and if the voltage is normal there (+9v or more) then you have a bad connection somewhere in between. also the ON?OFF slide switch might be bad and need replacing, or dry joints on the CCC board - bad connector pins etc. "Spookshow" wrote in message . .. My player does say CD-PRO, and the power supply appears to have been upgraded as well. Oddly enough, all problems seem to have vanished over the past couple of days, so I guess I won't worry about it for now. Things do seem to head south fast whenever I do a re-index, though. Does that ring any bells out there? -Mark "Jon Arnold" wrote in message ... If the player says "pro" on it, it was upgraded. And it is needed. The power supply needs to be upgraded at the same time. The un-upgraded power supply uses two voltage regulators mounted on the outside of the case. The upgraded one doesn't. The regulators may or may not still be mounted but would not be plugged into the board. If it is not upgraded, that could be your problem. Even if it is, it still might be a powe r supply problem. Otherwise I would guess a computer. Unless that is, the mech controls board error light blinks, then I would start there Spookshow wrote: My Rowe CD100 is acting up. Occasionally, when I select a song it will refuse to play anything and after a few minutes reboot the processor and go through the RAM test and CHECKSUM and whatnot and then just sit there. If I turn off the processor altogether and start over, usually it right itself and play the banked selections and generally be OK for a while, but eventually get go back into the state where it reboots and doesn't want to play anything. The "BOARD ERR" light flashes when it gets messed up. I bought this machine used and I was told that the CD player had been upgraded. I haven't verified if that's true, and if it is, I don't know exactly what the upgrade was. Any suggestions as to what I need to check or replace? I know my way around electronics, but I'm a novice when it comes to jukes. Thanks, -Mark |
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On Fri, 09 May 2003 11:05:38 GMT, KLR wrote:
On Thu, 8 May 2003 20:47:01 -0500, "Spookshow" wrote: -------- that is just the optical switch out of alignment - and it occasionaly jumps forward one notch. Note - this means it jumps 2 NUMBERS - as the mech is numbered 00,02,04,06,......96,98,01,03.....etc. sorry for the multiples - Bigpond's news server has had the dick by the look of things |
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