Seeburg 100 Wall-O-Matic lighting questions

[steveca]

Hey everyone, I just added an item to my man cave that I've wanted for as far back as I can remember. I've been in love with the table-top diner music controllers since I was a little kid in Boston and my mom would give me nickels and dimes to feed them.

I just bought a Seeburg Wall-O-Matic 100 wall box and want to get the lighting working on it. That's the only function I really care about. I wanna be able to look over at it and be brought back to the diners of the late 50s and early 60s.

I did a little reading and found that these wall boxes ran on 25V A/C. I purchased a 25V transformer that I plan to install in a box with a switch and hide behind the unit. That's as far as I've gotten. I know that the wall box has a built-in transformer but I don't know if I can trust it after all these years.

I'd really appreciate it if any of you can point me to where I can find out how to rewire just the lighting circuit of this wall box. Again, my only goal is to get the lights going on it.

Thanks,
Steve 

[steveca]

Well, I guess I'm on my own on this one. :-D

[jukenorman]

Hi Steve,
Well yes I guess you are on your own - and for a number of reasons! You have posted your query in "user introducions", I would be very surprised if your query is something that any contributor here has actually carried out and finally it's not exactly difficult to conjure a solution especially once you discover that the existing lighting is 7 volts.

Now here's a thought for you; why don't you refurbish the 3W1 and install a WMP-255 from cdadapter.com/ and then with the addition of an unobtrusive small loudspeaker you have a "working" wallbox into which you can drop coins and make selections - proper nostalgia! I know the audio output would only be 3 watts but alternatively you could hook it up to another music system.

Oh and welcome to the froum!

Norman.

[Hildegard]

I uploaded the schematic of 3W100 here: www.jukebox-world.de/Forum/Archiv/Seeburg/Seeburg3W100.htm#Schema

The lamps are 3x GE51 (7.5V) and 3x GE55 (7V, larger globe).

Hildegard