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theCoder:
I love your "trials and errors, mostly errors" comment.  The lessons learned from the "errors" are rarely repeated.   

What did you use for the bezel?

Great job, and as bfauska says, good to see you out of the shadows. 

SpanishJoe:
Thanks, all. Such a supportive group!  :notworthy:

As for the bezel - it's temporary (still hoping for the 27" WG maybe next year) , but believe it or not, it's an original black paper bezel for a Dynamo cab. I think. It's supported by a wooden bezel frame underneath. The bezel for the "Marvel Super Heroes" cab shown in KLOV is blue one with the Marvel graphics on it, but the one that I have is just black shiny posterboard with varying cutout stencils for various other monitor sizes printed on the reverse. Next time I take it out, I'll take snaps. However, I don't really like it (it has a crease in the middle), so when I get the $$ later on, I'll replace it with the Atomic one from mamemarquees.

-SJ.

PS: I would recommend actually going out and finding those cutcorner Dynamo cabs. They're a fantastic generic cab for MAME. I'm tempted to ask my Guy to see if he has any more, but I think I'll wait a bit to let my credit cards cool down...

mcfreak:
Agreed, great story, I made it all the way through it without my ADD kicking in.  ::)

Cabinet looks very clean!  How is the WAF now?

Crowquill:
Very nice, clean cab. HS-5s are great for MAME cabs as long as you're not looking to build a giant frankenpanel. FYI: HS-5's came with a 25" monitor. If was that excited about the pin, You might have milked it to get a game with a working monitor.


--- Quote ---By the end of the 1980's, in my parent's basement, I had collected a Big Game pin (Stern), A Nintendo punch-out, A sit-down sega Turbo (with a monitor that needed re-capping but I didn't know what that was at the time), and a Hang-on. I went away to college, and my parents decided to sell the house. Little did I know that they had already started to "get rid" of my old arcade machines - the Punch-Out was "disposed of" , and the Turbo had been apparently converted to an ice-fishing shack. I was duly informed that the others were "on their way out". After much begging and pleading, I managed to have the two survivors pulled out of the house and put into a dirt-floor shed at a friend's house where they stayed for the next twelve years.
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This kind of reminds me of my first game. I bought a non-working Crazy Kong from an auction for $12 back in '92. I couldn't even figure out how to get to anything in the front. It was stored at a friends for 5 years or so and with a new power supply he had it working fine.  8 years later and I looked at it and knew instantly how to break it down, trace the wiring, and tackle most things on it. The monitor gave out and now it's my MAME cab.

So did you use the PC's power supply or did you use it and an additional one? I'm surprised that you had so much problem with interference. Even cheap power supplies should be wired correctly and meet FCC requirements. Maybe because it was out of a PC case?

My WAF formula: WAF=SPACE USED ÷ COST x (NUMBER OF PUZZLE GAMES SHE CAN PLAY ON IT)

SpanishJoe:

--- Quote from: Crowquill on July 19, 2007, 04:52:27 am ---
So did you use the PC's power supply or did you use it and an additional one? I'm surprised that you had so much problem with interference. Even cheap power supplies should be wired correctly and meet FCC requirements. Maybe because it was out of a PC case?


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I used a generic PC supply out of a PC case. I was surprised about all the interference issues too. But it wasn't an electrical field thing, it was a ground loop thing, and a unclean pulsed DC power thing. Not an expert by any means - I was just treating symptoms. Was it the ATX? The amp? What I should have done is pick up a good 12VDC supply for $10 off ebay, but I was anxious to get the system going, and the ATX was just sitting there. I also wasn't keen on rewiring the cabinet again for the 12V lights, amp, move out the monitor, etc.... So it's a case of good money chasing after bad. If and when I do this again, I do it with the proper equipment.

As for a 25" monitor (and you're right - I just measured the old bezel) - I asked about that... he said he didn't have anything for me (yeah right) but at any rate, my Guy was pretty slow at responding to any request I had (months and months), I was just happy to get what I picked out.  Besides, I never intended to use an old arcade monitor in the case, because an ArcadeVGA PCI video card would fit in the slimline pc case.. and on and on.  :blah:

It's amazing what you actually know post-project, and what you *thought* you knew pre-project...

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