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Author Topic: How to mount PCB board for decased monitor?  (Read 1345 times)

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jimmy2x2x

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How to mount PCB board for decased monitor?
« on: August 11, 2010, 11:30:00 am »
Im looking for a solution to mounting the PCB (control board? not sure what its called) to a decased monitor.

I have just decased mine and have mounted the tube to a  plywood board and have installed angle shelf brackets either side of the monitor to support a shelf for the PCB, the problem I'm having is I wanted my monitor to be able to rotate, and the angle brackets are in the way.

Any examples of mounting suitable for rotation?

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Re: How to mount PCB board for decased monitor?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2010, 08:08:17 pm »
You may have to make some of your cabling longer for rotation, dont worry all your wires will go further, except for the sparkplug looking one, but if you are rotating it likely will be okay since the tube's end will remain in relatively the same place.

Just put a shelf in under the screen.

To the left is where I wired in the machine's speakers into the PCB.

The shelf is great for holding my power strip too.

Dont worry that rats nest in the bottom is gone now...
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Re: How to mount PCB board for decased monitor?
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2010, 04:16:55 am »
Ah, my wires are much tighter than that - they are just long enough for the control board to clear the tube.

I'm thinking of making a cage to imitate the chassis of an arcade monitor, something that would loop over the tube and provide good support for the control board through rotation.  I'll have a look at what materials I've got later on.

Thanks!

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Re: How to mount PCB board for decased monitor?
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2010, 07:45:50 am »
Maybe you could mount the board directly behind the tube, this way when it rotates it shouldn't pull them much tighter.