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Omega MAME: Revenge of Omega Race [COMPLETED! - Work on alt. CP's ongoing!]

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Necro:
No problem.  I'm going to take some tonight (or later this week...I'm coming down with something nasty and just trying to hang in there today as it is...).

The short description is that I ripped out the port from the PSU unit, desoldered everything from it and soldered new wires to it.  Made sure that it was rated for 15 amps also.  I cut a hole into the back of the cab, the put the 'port' into the cab and screwed it into the back wall.  The hot wire (black) I ran to the switch, then to the plug.  The other wires (neutral/white and the ground/green) I ran directly to the plug. 

It's very straight forward and I think the simplest way to wire an AC 'main' into the cab while keeping things as adaptable as possible.  The one issue I'm facing now is if I want the marquee lights on a separate switch from the computer (so I can turn that on or off separate from the monitor/PC).  This would prob. involve a switch inside the coin door for each of them...somehow.  Prob. a powerstrip switch and something inlined with the 12V adapter if I use that for the actual power to the LEDS.

Necro:
Ok, attached are images of the work I described earlier.

IG-88, in regards to your questions on how I did the switch look at the junction box picture and it should help.  The green wire is ground, the white wire is neutral, and the black wire is hot.  The hot wire goes from the 'plug' connector to the switch, then to the junction box.  The other wires go straight to the junction box.  I'm going to clean up the wires once I get the rest of the wiring in - which now is only the speaker wires as I need a set of speakers to rip apart to drive the cab speakers.  It's fairly straight forward to wire this kind of box.  I'm going to up the complexity of this, however, to add in more switches at the front of the cab (inside the coin door area) to let me control the lights and computer separately.  I'll most likely do this by inlining switches to the power strips/cords I use to attach the lights and the computer.  I'm envisioning 2 power strips - one for lights, one for the PC/Monitor.  The main thing is I'm going to need to put a switch on the cabs blacklight as well, as I won't always want that on.

I'm going with a get the basics down first, then build up.  I can always rewire this junction box if necessary, and split each socket in the box into a separate circuit. 

Necro:
Someone asked back before I disappeared why people don't finish cabs.  Reason?  Pregnant wife and a baby being born in this case.

I'm back on the scene and trying to finish this cab now.  Considering I have a few hundred dollars of parts sitting in my workroom...I feel the fiscal imperative to get it done.

So...speaker addition and cab rebuilding will be occuring (with new pics) over the next few weeks.  Barring the new baby keeping me from working...more. :)

Necro:
...hrm.  I have absolutely NO freaking idea how to put the artwork back into this cabinet now...

(The artwork behind the mirror...)

Paladin:
Because you forgot how it went in, or because you've altered the cab and need to figure out a new way?  Here's a picture of the back of my cab if you just need to see how it originally went in.

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