powering monitor, marquee and coin door

[subedriver]

Wasn't sure were to start this at so if it's in the wrong place will a mod please move it?  That being said I'm bout ready to finally put my pc in my cab.  I have read that I should remove the old power supply thats in the cab right now.  Doing this how will I wire the marquee, monitor and coin door lights to plug into a normal power strip?  I'll be keeping the original monitor and using soft 15khz for the video signal.  Here is the video card I bought for it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=350124307373
I will be wiring the power strip to a main switch on top of the cab and wiring the pc power to a regular happ pushbutton. 

[subedriver]

As far as I can tell this is the monitor: Philips mva48abk05x.  It says isolation transformer must be used.  I will be using a jpac also.

[SirPeale]

Philips mva48abk05x.  It says isolation transformer must be used.  I will be using a jpac also.

That's the tube.  Take a look in the monitor forum, esp regarding "monitor ID".

As for the rest, you can leave the power supply in the cab as long as you disconnect the power going to it.  You'll burn it out, otherwise.

If you have one of those cabs that has the power to the monitor coming through the power supply...well, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it. Let's see some pictures of the insides of the cab.

[subedriver]

I actually read through that last night and figured I had posted the tube number.  I looked at it again this morning and can't find anything i.d. ing it.  Here is a link to the photobucket that has pics of the monitor and power setup that I took this morning. http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p115/jonelmore/

[SirPeale]

You have a K7000.  And a separate power supply (Peter Chou style).  Easiest J-PAC setup of all. 

If you want to play actual arcade PCBs just wire a switch inline on the AC power going in to your power supply, that way you can turn it off when you switch it back to the J-PAC.

[subedriver]

Will just be doing mame with it.  So can I leave the power supply in there to power the marquee and coin door lights?  Now on hooking up the jpac I need to splice into a monitor cable and tap into the rgb and sync and ground of the monitor?  My jpac came with a monitor cable that i assume goes from the jpac to the cpu but then how do i connect it to the monitor?  Sorry for all of the silly questions

[SirPeale]

The JAMMA harness is already connected to the monitor.  When you connect the PC to the J-PAC it will send the video signal to the monitor.

The marquee *should* be a florescent fixture, which doesn't go thru the power supply.  You'll have to disconnect the power supply, without a load it'll burn up.  If you want to power your coin door lights, tap it from the PC power supply.

[subedriver]

I read through ultimarc's page last night and figured thats what i did with the jpac.  Yes the marquee is fluorescent.  Will get coin door power from the cp power supply like you suggested.  Should get my video card tomorrow so will see how it goes.  I'll just remove the power supply from the cab.  Don't want it to burn up. 

[SirPeale]

Just a few more questions if you don't mind.  Got the power supply pulled and got the video card hooked up but have a split screen on the arcade monitor.  Pulled the 31hz jumper and the screen stays on and the green light stays lit.  Also very stupid question but right now its an extension of my windows desktop, not actually the desktop with the start bar and what not.  I have soft15khz on it.

Please stop PMing me questions, this is what the forum is for.

If you have a split screen then you don't have a 15KHz signal going to the monitor.  Double check your Soft15KHz settings.

[subedriver]

sorry bout the pming.  i pulled the 31khz jumper off and the screen stayed on and the leds stayed lit on the jpac.  so i'm assuming that it is outputting 15khz correct?  The jpac has the red,green and yellow leds lit on it.

[SirPeale]

The J-PAC doesn't change the signal to 15KHz.  It will signal you when it passes a valid signal, though.   You need to check your settings in Soft15.

[subedriver]

ok i must not know how to adjust soft15.  i'll post this in the soft 15kh thread.