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muppets4:
Upon opening this reply I am being warned that I am about to reacht on a topic older then 120 days (-:

It's been winter. And my shed is unheated, so I stopped working on it. A month ago the weather bettered, so I started working on it again.Step by step. I hope to finish it before my son leaves the house, and he currently is 8 years old. So time is on my side.

I have been working on the controlpanel. I was kind of nervous doing that, because drilling holes never was my speciality. I practiced on a small piece of MDF, so I learned that I need to drill from to sides to have a perfect hole. Then I drawed lines on it. And wonder: it all worked out. I picked glossy orange paint and when that was dry I couldn't resist installing the buttons. Last weekend I went all out on the bezel. Took me 3 times to get it right. I'm waiting for one side to let the paint dry. So I can install it tommorrow.

muppets4:
I'm not that fast, but in a slow pace things are coming to an end. I am finishing up now. Things to do are designing the marquee and sideart. Audio is connected, but that did not went well.

I fitted a pc on a MDF plate using a standard PSU. For the sound I've bought a small amplifier to connect the speakers. For power I used the 12v lines from the PSU. Now I am hearing all kinds of disturbance through the speakers. Is there something I can do to get rid of that other then buying another 12v PSU?

muppets4:
And offcourse some pictures of the current state!

BobA:

--- Quote from: muppets4 on August 12, 2011, 11:09:54 am ---For the sound I've bought a small amplifier to connect the speakers. For power I used the 12v lines from the PSU. Now I am hearing all kinds of disturbance through the speakers. Is there something I can do to get rid of that other then buying another 12v PSU?

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You can use a regulated 12V wall wart instead of a complete PSU.  It has to have enough power for your amp.

muppets4:
Thanks, found one on Ebay, report to you later.

Other question. I'm in the process of deciding what side art I want and what marquee. Not an easy task. Game on Grafix has good options, as has Emdkay. Both of them are US based. Is there a Europian company too? To cut shipping costs?

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