Hi, All:
I have not been on here in a long time. My bad back and old age have made me give up the jukes and pinballs. That said, one of my customers is a golf buddy, and he wouldn't take "no" for an answer. Last week he came with his grandsons and dropped off his Rockola 418 with a strange problem.
It might play 10 records just fine. Then it will place a record on the turntable, set down the tone arm and blow the 28V supply fuse. It does it in that exact same place in the cycle every time it does it. It took me a while to remember that, several years ago it did this same thing. At that time, Ron, God rest his soul, advised me to check the 3 cam switches. One of them was, in fact intermittent, and I replaced all 3 with higher current rating switches.
I have replaced the 28V supply 1.6A slo blo with a 2 amp circuit breaker to save money on fuses. Unplugging the AMP chassis does not clear the problem. If I unplug the Phono Power plug from the power supply, I can reset the breaker and it won't trip again, so I presume the short is in the phono wiring somewhere.
I have it in fail mode right now. It would seem I have a short somewhere on this 28v line. I would like to just cave man troubleshoot it by unhooking wires until the short goes away, but to do this without a ton of work and agonizing twisting of my old spine, it would be nice to have a wiring diagram that shows the plugs and wire colors, so I can do that. The Victory Glass manual doesn't have a wiring diagram for it. Is any of you aware of a wiring diagram for this unit?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Best
Mike