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Marak:

Wow. That is not a cab. It is a piece of Art!

There has got to be more than a few people here that like large panels.
I know I do.

I have been reluctant to post pics of my 1st cab because of all the negativity towards large panels.

Totally awesome!  :cheers:

JKJudgeX:
I *like* large panels... they just make me ANGRY because I don't really have room for them in my theater room without sacrificing some comfort/walking area, etc.

G1zm0:
read your pdf on monitor rotation and on led buttons, ive got a mechanical coin mech i might try stick a few leds on, anyway what i want to know is, i looked for the pulley and theres lots on the site and cant see the pacific one, , would a bigger pulley wheel have had worked without the pizza tin or is that still required? also what bearings did you use, im in uk and trying to find parts are hard,i want to do a 15" dell rotating monitor and then my own 20" crt one

weisshaupt:

--- Quote from: G1zm0 on April 07, 2008, 05:12:30 pm ---read your pdf on monitor rotation and on led buttons, ive got a mechanical coin mech i might try stick a few leds on, anyway what i want to know is, i looked for the pulley and theres lots on the site and cant see the pacific one, , would a bigger pulley wheel have had worked without the pizza tin or is that still required? also what bearings did you use, im in uk and trying to find parts are hard,i want to do a 15" dell rotating monitor and then my own 20" crt one

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You may want to do a search here on the forum, as there are quite a few Rotating LCD projects going on right now. My project used a 6 inch pulley attached to a pizza plate largely becauce I tried to rotate it with a belt first and already had the pulley mounted.  Other people have used a Wheel and its internal bearing, another sandwiched a roller skate bearing into a piece of MDF, and yet other people are trying out Lazy Susan Bearings. 

There is certainly no universally accepted method for doing the LCD mount at this point and a lot of experimentation going on.  What you need to look for is :

1) Nearly frictionless rotation (totally frictionless is bad, adding something that has a little friction to it actually helps this mechanism - something I learned from other here who are smarter than me)
2) A easy way to attach the monitor (my plastic pully is easy to drill through, the pizza plate wasn't as easy - which is why many of the people doing projects now are using MDF or wood as the Pulley/mount)
3) A LARGE Circle to act as a pulley  (my 6 inch pully is merely providing the bearing, the pizza pie plate is the actual pully the motor acts against) So A Really large pully would work better than my six inch diameter one, but any of the methods being explored provide this.

As far as the LCD goes:
1) Try to select one with the VESA mount dead center of the screen. If you don't, you will have to modify the mount to accomodate the difference
2) Select a monitor with a WIDE viewing angle. Do not go by Specifications, you need to see and touch it to know how it will do.   Otherwise as its rotated, it may become unviewable if you are too far off axis, and that, in general is bvad if your joystick position is off axis :>) Some are great, others not so much.

I haven't done a CRT based project, and I generally don't want to because you have to add the degauss in. DaOldMan has got one, and would be a good person to ask. 

telengard:
Cool project.  Curious to know how the velcro'ed modules are holding up under use.

Love the old school etchings too.  Very, very nice.

~telengard

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