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Help w/ Japanese Capcom Impress cab
paigeoliver:
--- Quote from: Impostor on April 26, 2003, 10:59:41 pm ---I figured that it still contains a charge enough to be dangerous. That's why I was being very very careful in plugging the connector back in.
So folks, just b/c I stuck my arm and hands in there doesn't mean you should too.
Thanks for the warning CthulhuLuke.
Impostor
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It takes approximately 2 minutes to make a monitor discharge tool, and another 30 seconds to discharge the monitor. THATS IT!
Take a flat headed screwdriver with a plastic handle, a piece of wire (i just used an extra wire I pulled off a JAMMA harness) and some electrical tape.
Wrap one end of the wire around the screwdriver about 2 inches from the tip. Use the tape to tape it there nice and good.
There! No you have a monitor discharge tool.
To discharge. Wrap the loose end of the wire around something on the monitor frame (usually tons of holes, pick one). Then stick your spare hand in your pocket, and carefully stick the tip of the screwdriver under the suction cup on the back until you touch the metal part underneath. You may hear a zap, you may not. But either way. You just did it.
It isn't hard. It isn't even scary after the first time you do it. Then you don't have to worry about touching the wrong thing.
Impostor:
Thanks for the great instructions paigeoliver. I have a question though: what's keeping me from being zapped when I stick the screwdriver under the suction cup? And wouldn't the wire that's wrapped around the screwdriver melt?
As you can tell, I'm totally clueless about this stuff. But I am trying to learn. :)
Thanks!
Impostor
paigeoliver:
You are only touching the plastic screwdriver handle. Plastic does not conduct. So you don't get zapped. Wooden handled ones work too. But they often have a metal ring at the edge of the handle, which rules them out.
The wire doesn't melt, or even get hot. Because the electricity encounters no resistance with the screwdriver. It just goes right through to the frame. I have been discharging with the same cheapo wire for a long time. It works just fine.
Pyronious:
I have a similar Japanese sit-down cab (the Neo Candy 29). It may open differently from yours. On the Neo cab, you unlock the two locks under the control panel, flip it up, and then the monitor bezel can be opened up like the hood of a car. You can see pictures of this on my web page.
Still in the first phases of converting this to a MAME cab... but it's getting there!
http://www.pyronious.com/
Patrick