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Before buying a Wells-Gardner monitor, read about their problems
tophatne1:
I have a chance to get a 25" Wells Gardner 25k7193 for $80.
It was pulled from a Neo Geo. This would be my first arcade monitor purchase and I don't want to buy something that's no good.
Is this a good monitor to use with the arcadeVGA?
D_Harris:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on March 20, 2007, 12:44:53 pm ---If anyone is seriously considering buying a Wells-Gardner monitor, you should check out this link about their many problems being experienced lately:
http://www.vendoramusements.com/bbs/nph-YaBB.pl?num=1165873842
Vendor Amusements is a large Canadian game route operator.
EDIT:
Here is some more:
In return, I expect to see the following from Wells Gardner:
1) Some more realistic troubleshooting documents available from Wells Gardner. Charts showing waveform diagrams and voltage checks at test points. Troubleshooting flowcharts that consist of MORE than the most basic problems solved by replacing a large number of components.
Surely your techs deal with these problems everyday, and know the problem spots.
2) Above mentioned documents available sooner than years after the model has been on the market.
3) A SERIOUS effort at designing a chassis that has about 1/2 the components the current models have. Drop the on-screen-display. Use capacitors that are known for quality (i.e. Nichicon, etc) NOT what is the cheapest available.
And have the plant at whatever third world country you are getting your chassis built at FIX THEIR GODDAM SOLDER FLOW MACHINE.
In return, I won't tell our distributor NOT to ship us any equipment that has a Wells Gardner monitor in it. Imagine our next order for 50 Big Buck Hunter Pro's or Golden Tee LIVE's, but ONLY machines that don't have WG monitors in them. Might tweak the interest of someone at Raw Thrills or IT.
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Ken.
Do you have any recommendations of monitor brands?
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
Ken Layton:
In no particular order have been good reports on these:
Makvision
Pentranic
Nieman Displays (Amusements Plus stocks this)
Kortek (Betson-Imperial)
Wei-Ya (sold by Alva Amusement)
Billabs (actually a Wei-ya that's been Americanized)
Tovis (Happ Vision Pro is a rebranded Tovis)
Kortek and Tovis have been used in the demanding video slot machine market.
D_Harris:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on March 02, 2008, 11:46:36 am ---In no particular order have been good reports on these:
Makvision
Pentranic
Nieman Displays (Amusements Plus stocks this)
Kortek (Betson-Imperial)
Wei-Ya (sold by Alva Amusement)
Billabs (actually a Wei-ya that's been Americanized)
Tovis (Happ Vision Pro is a rebranded Tovis)
Kortek and Tovis have been used in the demanding video slot machine market.
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Thanks.
This whole VGA, CGA, ect. issue was getting confusing and I was hoping to get specific model numbers from game owners with experience.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
RikaKazak:
darn it, I just purchased a Wells 9400 :(
It was recomended to me by the site I bought my cabinet from :(