I got my Janome 9000 in 1997 but didn't use it a lot until I retired in 2011. It worked fine, then in 2013 it stopped working. I took it in and it was a fuse. Got a new fuse and it worked for awhile and quit again. Installed another new fuse and it still has problems. The Janome dealer really did not want to work on it and he was not polite. It is just sitting. I have not had the heart to get rid of it because I'm hoping my husband can figure out what is wrong with it. For that age of a machine, I do not want to put $500 in it if it is a circuit board!