Personal Music Melody Lane Build

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1947 Personal Music Melody Lane walllbox.

This wallbox was originally intended to provide a set time of music for either 5 cents or a dime. On this example 5 cents gets you 6 minutes of music and a dime delivers 12 minutes.

There is no way to select the music it just started up in the middle of whatever song the central device was playing at the time.

A built in timer turns on the internal lights and powers the speaker once a coin hits the switch stack. I have it wired to a 24v AC transformer and a WallBoxtoMP3 “Solotone” emulator.

I have taken a different route than the one suggested by the WB2MP3 folks, their suggestion is to wire in a micro switch that they provide so that when a dropped coin hits it you get a random selection of the songs you have on the MP3 SD card all powered by the emulator’s 5v power adapter..

When I received this box it was in such great shape that I decided to make it function as it was intended and play 6 minutes of music for a nickle and 12 mins for a dime.

The WB2MP3 emulator and the 110v – 24V transformer are tucked up under the shelf that the wallbox sits on.

I went with songs from a 1950 Hit Parade CD I have and combined them into one long MP3 file.

If you keep adding coins the long MP3 file will continue to play.

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VQZdXu9bug

 

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