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What size monitor was in a Defender cab?
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Ken Layton:
Defender used a 19" horizontal (a.k.a. "shelf") mount color raster monitor. All the ones I have worked on were originally shipped with either an Electrohome G07 or Wells-Gardner 19k4600 series monitor inside.
TOK:

--- Quote from: eggedd2k on September 04, 2005, 03:01:45 pm ---i'm making a defender cab from scratch (using the plans from the jakobud site). i was just wondering what size monitor they used to have in them? mine's gonna have to be a computer monitor.


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Cool project. Since you're using a PC monitor, I'm guessing you're using MAME and not a dedciated PC. Have you considered doing a multi-Wiliams?
Thats probably the one cabinet with a very limited number of games that I'd be completely happy with.
pmc:

--- Quote from: eggedd2k on September 04, 2005, 04:04:56 pm ---thanks for the advice - do you think a 20 inch computer monitor will fit in a defender cab?

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I have a 21" monitor in my scratch-built defender cabinet and there's still plenty of room for a bigger one. It's an older monitor (i.e., large), so it wants to protrude through the back a bit. But there is tons of space around the top, bottom, and sides. Mine is on a swivel-stand and is merely sitting on a shelf.

Please post pics when you are done.

-pmc
eggedd2k:
i shall post some WIP plus completion pics.

when you say it protrudes from the back - do you mean you don't have a back on your cab? i deffinitely want one on mine
pmc:

--- Quote from: eggedd2k on September 05, 2005, 09:46:09 am ---i shall post some WIP plus completion pics.

when you say it protrudes from the back - do you mean you don't have a back on your cab? i deffinitely want one on mine

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I have a rear door panel, but it's not actually mounted on the cabinet. The monitor itself extends back to that panel, and then the wiring protrudes a little beyond that (just an inch or so). I always figured that I'd a) smoosh the wiring against that back door, b) cut a small window to allow them to stick out, or c) re-wire with angled connectors or something like that. In the meantime, I've been happy with d) no rear door for now.

If you have a modern monitor, I'll bet that you have no trouble making it fit.  The old ones, and particularly the big ones, were often very deep.

I look forward to seeing your WIP.

-pmc
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