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Vertical Bartop. Unnamed! Now Named!!!...GRANDSTAND
TOK:
--- Quote from: dmworking247 on September 07, 2008, 10:29:24 am ---This is getting kind of spooky as the designs look quite similar to a bartop I'll be finishing & announcing this week... so let me ask you the question I struggled with:
Where are your credit/start buttons going (and pause/escape if you're having dedicated buttons for it). I only see player buttons on your CP design?
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Don't mean to butt in on your question to him. I didn't want any admin buttons showing, so I got small momentary switches about 3/8" in diameter and countersunk them into the side of my cab. The side is flush, but you can feel the buttons. I did the power button offset toward the back so it isn't touched by accident while reaching for the credit (front) or pause (second back).
Edit to add pic... sorry its kind of crappy, but you can get the idea. Switches are common parts from Sears Hardware.
lettuce:
--- Quote from: dmworking247 on September 07, 2008, 10:29:24 am ---This is getting kind of spooky as the designs look quite similar to a bartop I'll be finishing & announcing this week... so let me ask you the question I struggled with:
Where are your credit/start buttons going (and pause/escape if you're having dedicated buttons for it). I only see player buttons on your CP design?
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I havent decided yet. I was thing of maybe have the player start buttons on the top of the cab maybe, where the marquee is, and have the credit button on the front of the CP base, or just have the player start buttons on the front with the credit button. I would be using an I-PAC so i would really need any other admin buttons. But if i was to add more admin button, i would probably add them to the rear of the cab so they were hidden away.
One thing i am concerned with is the marquee may get in the way of the top of the screen if you were to stand above the cab ifself, and also with the bottom of screen, there the joystick may obscure the screen slightly??, its hard to tell until you actually have the thing sitting in front of you! :cry:. The only other thing would be to make the cab an inch or so higher, but then thay would bring the total hight to 26-27" !!!
dmworking247:
The joysticks won't be a problem, but I guess if you were standing up the marquee could block it, but you'd be on quite an angle to make that a problem, and you're 'angled up' marquee will reduce that problem.
For the marquee angle to be a problem you'd need to be looking 'down' at the top of the screen by about 45', which isn't very likely since these are really built for sitting on a table top or coffee table with you sitting down.
I'll post some pictures of mine and the plans any day now, and you can cross check your dimensions/angles with those.
IG-88:
Oh yes. Much better.
dmworking247:
I told you mine was a similar shape! ;)
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