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shatteredzman:
Day 6:
I finished the front panels and did some planned on how I will do my control panel layout. I cut a hole for the switch in the back and mounted the switch. I was really wanting to see how things would look so I printed out a random marquee I found on google and stuck it on two piece of plexiglass I had laying around. This was also a test to see if the marquee would be lighted evenly. I also cut out a piece of cardboard for the best game ever.
shatteredzman:
Day 7:
I didnt get much done but I did cut some holes for the fans. I also invented a very stupid trick. I had cut a board about 3 inches too long so I asked my brother to hold the circular saw upside down while I cut the 3 inches off, I named it the skill saw trick. Luckily there will be no more skill saw trick performances and we all still have our fingers. It doesnt get any stupider then that! ;D
I was also having problems with the cabinet being front heavy while the control panel was attached so I put a cat sand tub on the back to keep the thing from tipping over.
shatteredzman:
Day 8:
I started running out of things I could do due to the lack of parts. I got my coin door from ebay for $16 and decided to mount it.
My brother also did some sanding on the control panel to make the front end of it smoother since I cant seem to cut a straight line.
shatteredzman:
Day 9:
Day 9 was a productive day. I used my cars old 4x6 speakers and the speaker grills for my new phoenix gold speakers and mounted them. I also took a dell computer case, cut it down, and mounted it. In the picture you can see I was wearing safety goggles, because after all...safety first when it comes to power tools! ;) The original plan was to use my old computer motherboard but for some reason it refused to boot. I grabbed another motherboard and it did the same thing! I did a lot of trouble shooting and it seems some how both motherboards died at the same time. I used two completely different sets of hardware... I guess I just have bad luck.
I also forgot to mention a few things. To deal with the front heavyness of the cabinet I put a 23" long 4" thick solid steel bar in the little foot of the cabinet. That thing probably weights 60 pounds. This also causes my casters to buckle under the weight. I bought some replacement casters from home depo for $4 a piece, the wheel and swivel part are both made out of steel. Now I can move the cabinet with the push of a finger.
shatteredzman:
Day 10:
Well this is sort of day 10. I havnt worked on the project in a while and no pictures were taken on day 10 so these pictures were just taken recently. I mounted the dell computer, connected the coin door lights to the computers power supply, mounted a motherboard power switch. I had one problem with the dell, the cpu fan was VERY loud!!! It was so loud you could hear it inside the house. It turned out that the heat sinks pipe had a leak and wasnt transfering heat which was causing the CPU to overheat. I replaced the heatsink and things got a lot quieter. I also hung a temporary monitor so I could work on the computers software for a bit. I dont want to put the monitor supports in the cabinet until I get the actual monitor and I can get my measurements. I also have some temporary speakers here because I was using a butchered dell speaker amp for the speakers and I burnt it up. I guess the car speakers have less impedence and it caused the tiny dell amp to over heat...the thing was getting very hot afterall. So I ordered a cheap chinese motorcycle amp. My speakers are 15 watts RMS each and this amp claims to be 360 watts which is completely obsurd! I have a 360 RMS watt amp in my car and its a lot bigger and expensive. I figure the amp will be about 30 watts RMS which is plenty to power the cheap speakers I have.
Here is the amp, I havnt gotten it in the mail yet.
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/dreamdigital008/A08-2.jpg
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