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ArcadeVGA and Jpac not powering on the monitor . .
Guywiththegun:
Any input on the pics? I've pretty much decided to start parting out and trashing this entire project if its not something manageable without shelling out more $$$ for nothing. Would love to get it running but its bringing me down too much.
DashRendar:
Had this cabinet been in a flood in the past? I see a lot of rust on that ISO transformer....
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Guywiththegun on January 07, 2010, 03:55:23 pm ---Any input on the pics? I've pretty much decided to start parting out and trashing this entire project if its not something manageable without shelling out more $$$ for nothing. Would love to get it running but its bringing me down too much.
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First, slow down. You got into this mess by rushing. None of this is tremendously difficult, but it does require a basic understanding and, in order to help, we need to understand what you did.
And you need to be patient ... I do have this pesky day job and family to tend to ... ;)
My most important question is what did you do with this connector:
It's a fuzzy pic, but looks like a monitor power connection to me, complete with the little Wells Gardner warning tag requiring the use of an isolation transformer.
Guywiththegun:
Sorry, just an all around anxious kind of day for other reasons. I do appreciate it.
If you're referring to the cable with the tag attached to it, its plugged into wires that go down into here:
If you're referring to the wires that are unplugged, that would go into the arcade power supply, which the Jpac documentation states should be unplugged.
CheffoJeffo:
OK, so the monitor is connected to the isolation transformer.
There should be two wires coming "out" (which run to the monitor) and two wires going "in".
If I understand you correctly, the "in" wires were connected to the arcade power supply and are now disconnected.
If that is the case, what you need to understand is that those wires where not connected to the "output" of the PS (the PS puts out +5VDC, +12VDC, -5VDC, but no AC), but rather just tapped off on the input (which is AC coming from the wall and IN to the PS). While you don't need the PS anymore, you still need to provide AC power to anything that was connected to the AC poles on the PS.