Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
A Gallag to Galaga cabinet resto-mod. (new title)
HHaase:
Kinda refreshing that it's not a genuine cabinet. It gives me a bit more wiggle room, and less need to be original with everything.
But I really need to get the wiring situation sorted out first. Anybody have an idea what the "table" pin on the PCB connector is supposed to do? Is this something that I might want to connect at all, or just another feature that's less important at home than it would be in an arcade.
HHaase:
Ugh, the closer I look, the more the wiring needs work. Just ordered all new connectors for the PCB and monitor harnesses, a big pile of .093 pins and a few other goodies. The board connectors are particularly bad.
Unfortunately, when I was checking what the connectors were in order to get my order list together, I also screwed something up. Now I get is an all-white screen when I power it up. Sounds, buttons and everything else works fine. It almost looks like there's something going on, but the white is overpowering it. I'm assuming I probably mis-seated a connector somewhere, so I'm not too worried yet. But I wanted to take a photo of a small graphical glitch that's been bothering me where it shows what level you're on, which I can't do until I get the screen working again.
-Hans
HHaase:
Ok, all better now.
I got my box-o-connectors from Bob Roberts yesterday, and rebuilt the monitor to video board harness this morning. I'm glad to have that spaghetti monster out of my cabinet, that's for sure, looks so much nicer on the inside. The monitor fires up just fine again, I either had something seated wrong or the header on the video board is getting wonky on me. In fact, the picture looks fantastic now, other than that little glitch that I'll upload some photos of tonight. The quick description is that there's red lines extending out of the bottom of the level counter chevrons.
Eventually I'll want to do a tube swap, but that's definitely going to be breaking new ground for me. The current monitor is a Wells Gardner 19K4606, with some serious Pac and Galaga burn in's on it. I have a line on a few fairly recent 19" TV's with good picture quality. What do I need to look for to make sure it's compatible? My google-fu is failing me on this topic.
-Hans
SirPeale:
As long as the tubes are compatible with a B&K adapter #23, you should be good to go. That's for the tube.
Sometimes you can get away with using the yoke that's already on the tube, sometimes you have to use the yoke from the original tube. You have to meter the yoke to see if they're close.
There are many docs on this on the 'net, Google it to find out more.
As for having a brighter picture and whatnot after fixing the connector, that makes perfect sense! It's hard to have a good picture with bad signal.
Read this regarding my experiences with poor connection: http://www.pealefamily.net/tech/arcade/?p=378
ckong:
nice project, but drop the watermarks on your pics. They look silly and they distract ;)
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