Arcade VGA cable with Pics. Please Help!

[urbecrisch]

I just received my VGA Breakout cable for my ArcadeVGA card.  I think I know what I'm doing but I want to be sure.  I want to know the best way to hook up the Breakout (BO) cable to my arcade monitor. 

As you can see in the PICS, my arcade monitor cable has the following wires:

(PIC 1) RED, GREEN, BROWN, BLACK W/BARE WIRE TWISTED, and 2 WHITE.

(PIC 2) My Breakout cable has:

RED, GREEN, BLUE, GROUND, VSYNC, and HSYNC

1. Do I just cut the wires on the BO cable and connect them to my monitor cable?

2. My monitor cable has two white wires; however, as you can see (PIC 3) only one white wire comes out the other end of the monitor cable (PIC 4).

I assume the white wires are VSYNC and HSYNC so do I connect the 1 white wire (PIC 4) to both VSYNC and HSYNC on the BO cable (PIC 2)?  Here's where I'm a little confused.

3. Is it safe to just use wire connectors to wire the BO cable to the monitor cable?

That's it for now.  Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[ahofle]

Check your monitor docs for sure, but you most likely have a composite sync monitor, in which case you should twist the breakout Hsync and VSync wires together and connect them to the one composite sync wire for your monitor.  When I hacked my VGA cable, I just twisted the wires together and used electrical tape.  Not the most elegant method, but it worked just fine.

[Chris G]

1.  If you mean STRIP the wires, yes.

2.  If you only have 1 wire for V and H sync, then yes, connect it to both on the VGA-bc.

3.  Perfectly fine, unless you're a solder kind of guy.

 
Chris

[BobA]

I think this thread is being continuted over in the Monitor Video area.


http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=67861.0

[meequalgreat]

Check your monitor docs for sure, but you most likely have a composite sync monitor, in which case you should twist the breakout Hsync and VSync wires together and connect them to the one composite sync wire for your monitor.  When I hacked my VGA cable, I just twisted the wires together and used electrical tape.  Not the most elegant method, but it worked just fine.

I did the same thing, I hacked the break out cable to my actual jamma harness and I used electrical tape. I had to make a composite sync, one thing I recommend is to keep trying. When I made mine it took me like two days of retaping it untill it actually worked. I stripped the wires but for some reason they weren't getting a clean connection, the only explanation I can think of is because of how little the diameter of the breakout cable's wires are.