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| BilldaCat:
Ok.. bear in mind, I am an idiot when it comes to wiring, so talk to me like I'm five. I've had this machine for a good 8 years or so.. it originally worked, i loved it.. then it died. No idea why. No buttons responded, etc. So I moved once or twice, wires have become unhooked.. I've tried to troubleshoot it with some people here (see previous posts by me), and in general I've been very intimidated since the concept of electricity is foreign to me. and yet I'm a computer programmer. go figure. ANYWAY.. after I did some more reading and just tore apart the insides, I started thinking.. hey .. this is much easier than I thought it was. So I did all the wiring of the controls today.. ground wire, buttons to ipac .. started plugging things in.. hit the power.. jamma monitor does the little 'zzt i am on' sound.. no picture though. I start following wires around, and there's a lot of seemingly extra buttons and switches that I can't figure out for the life of me what they ever did or are there for. Some pictures are below.. the questions I have 1) why am I getting no picture (duh) 2) what is the loose wire thingy (i dont know what this is called), and should this be going somewhere? Ok.. pictures with comments: Connector coming off the monitor.. wasn't plugged in, I connected it. this shot probably isn't helpful. jumble of wires. connector for vga cable to pc. some of the wires are ending up here. i don't know what this is, or where to connect it. the big power supply is not turning on. there's a loose plug (the kind that would go into a PC power supply) not hooked to anything. front of the machine.. wiring block where monitor wires are going on the left (notice how many wires i've cut, many not knowing what they did to begin with, many were stuff going to the ipac.. when i rewired, i went straight from the buttons to the ipac.. who needs a wiring block? i don't get it)... MYSTERY SWITCHES directly to the right of the wiring block.. ipac on right. so.. yeah. please let me know if i can provide more photos, better descriptions, etc.. I don't really know where to go from here. thanks! |
| M.Lanza:
It seems like you're trying to convert this to mame right? You'd probably be better off if you remove all of the electrical components from the cabinet and start reinstalling from scratch. You'll probably have a better chance at figuring out what each component is and how each of them work. You can start by checking this out. http://arcadecontrols.com/BBBB/acwiring.html |
| SirPeale:
It's really hard to tell what's what, but that's no fault of yours. Where do you live? I think I'm seeing a JAMMA harness there, why didn't you go with a JPAC instead of an IPAC? Would have saved you a ton of wiring. |
| BilldaCat:
I'm outside of Charlottesville, VA. The machine was a functional MAME machine when I got it, worked fully. Nothing's been replaced.. same monitor, same IPAC.. no idea why it was wired the way it was, it seems to me like there's a LOT of extra wires, some led to absolutely nothing. First step would be getting the monitor working.. but I'm just not getting any signal when I plug into the VGA connector. Is there something I could test to find where the problem is? Would more pictures of the monitor and the wiring around it help? Every wiring guide I've come across seems to be for the controls, and I think those are functional now that I've rewired them .. if there's any monitor resources that would help me, please point me there. Thanks! Really would like to get this working in the next 2 weeks before my dad visits. |
| BobA:
If it was a working Mame arcade setup you should have a PC in there somewhere. I think you have to provide more pictures and it maybe easier just to strip it down and rewire a clean setup. The jamma connector with will have alot of wires going to nowhere if it is not being used. You did not say what type of monitor you have but going by the little bit of the back I would guess an arcade monitor so you are probably connecting to a PC which supports 15 mhz video via soft 15 or the such. Just guessing but starting from scratch will give you a better system they sorting thru alot of wires that are not needed. |
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