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how much have you spent on your cab?
my58vw:
I have over 2500 in my 5 key Beatmania dedicated, including the 10 upgrade kits.
Because everyone was posting pictures.
esaelectrionics:
£170 for tatty moon cresta cocktail,
£15 for 14" multisync monitor( more like 15" now de-cased)
£3 for pc motherboardboard + proc (pentuim III 933)
£7 for akasa silent fan
£5 graphic card matrox g400
£10 hardrive (20 gig)
£50 for new glasstop.
found ISA soundcard.( its a advmame system)
found a new speaker in a broken ghetto blaster!
esaelectrionics:
:dizzy:
protokatie:
--- Quote ---£15 for 14" multisync monitor( more like 15" now de-cased)
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FYI, most CRT's are diagonally measured based on the size of the case, not the tube. So your 14" screen (CRT) went down to a 12" screen when you decased it.
LCDs/plasmas OTOH are diagonal measures of the screen themselves.
Unless you have different rules about screen sizes in the UK, this is how it is. (Grab a ruler and check it out)
paigeoliver:
Computer monitor measurements are almost universally the same, TV ones vary by location, and they ARE measured by the tube, however computer monitors generally advertise the whole tube size, while only viewable size is allowed to be advertised for TV sets in most countrys.
In general a standard CRT computer monitor is about 1.6" smaller than advertised size. However most 14" and 15" ones seem to be the same darn tube size (at least both come really, really close to fitting the mounting holes for a 13" arcade monitor.
Japan does the inflated measurement size for arcade monitors, so monitors in imported Japanese cabinets will be labeled as a bigger size than they actually are. Like the 29" monitors in all those candy cabs, which are really 27" monitors.
Also, about the actual topic.
I probably win the contest, as I have done multiple machines for negative amounts of money, one of them about negative $205 dollars. (In all those cases the innards of the crappy Jamma title I converted brought me more than I spent on the project and donor cab combine). Actually, the majority of machines I have done have had a negative cost.
--- Quote from: protokatie on April 27, 2008, 08:21:02 pm ---
--- Quote ---£15 for 14" multisync monitor( more like 15" now de-cased)
--- End quote ---
FYI, most CRT's are diagonally measured based on the size of the case, not the tube. So your 14" screen (CRT) went down to a 12" screen when you decased it.
LCDs/plasmas OTOH are diagonal measures of the screen themselves.
Unless you have different rules about screen sizes in the UK, this is how it is. (Grab a ruler and check it out)
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