Wiring Question - Marquee

[oldskoolcade]

I did a search on 'marquee power' and couldn't come up with anything definitive.  The cabinet I have is an old Dynamite Cop cab that was gutted, except for the Marquee lighting and the speakers.  I've wired the speakers in no problem, but I'm wanting to power the marquee light now.  It looks like your average household fluro setup, except that it looks like they cut the power cord and had it connected somehow to the old jamma board.   There's a green wire, a white wire and a black wire.  The green also looks like it was spliced into a grounding ring before it was connected to the molex housing.   The question is:

Can I hook this into a free set of wires coming from my computers power supply, and if so, would I be hooking into the 12v or 5v line to do so?

Sorry if this has been covered before, but if it was, I couldn't find the answer.

Cheers!
Mike

[Stingray]

I removed the light fixture from my marquee and replaced it with a battery (12 volt) powered flourecent fixture from Wal-Mart. I took the fixture apart and wired it in directly to my power supply's 12v.

-S

[fredster]

All the florecent lights I ever had in an Arcade machine were 120vac.  There is a transformer on it that may have markings.

Bob Roberts has a diagram of one of those things.  It's also included in some of the old manuals, like Wizard of Wor or Qbert.

If you trace those lines back down, you will find they come off the main power strip either at the filter or at the fuses.  They are AC, not DC.

A quick way to check is to set a multimeter and stick it in those holes using the AC setting.  It ought to show 120.  

Likely the green wire is the field ground that connects to all the metal components.

The only arcade machine I ever had that used a 12V light set was a caberet MS Pac.  It had several blade 12V bulbs hooked up in parallel.

[oldskoolcade]

Thanks for the suggestions and advice gang!   I ended up taking an old power cord and splicing it back into the original cord (surprisingly enough, the colour scheme was the same...haha).

Anyway, I plugged into my power strip and voila!  Marquee lighting...

Cheers!
Mike

[Nefesis]

allright this isn't about marquee wiring but how do you wire a modular copntrol panel? with quick connects?

[Doc-]

allright this isn't about marquee wiring but how do you wire a modular copntrol panel? with quick connects?

Wire your modular control panel like this:
  http://www.beersmith.com/mame/wiring.htm

Doc-

[Nefesis]

ok, thanks. i have about 50 ft of network wire lying around, so that is perfect.