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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: Poker808 on December 10, 2010, 12:25:47 pm
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I'm thinking about buy a monitor from a guy which said he has a Wells-Gardner 27" 27K5201 monitor. It has been sitting on a shelf for 10 years and they are still in the boxes like new. Still have the plastic cover over the front class. He is asking 170 for the monitor and I was wondering if this would be a good deal. If I did buy this monitor can any of the veterians tell me how I would get this thing connected to my PC. I am looking to use it with mame, and any other emulator up to PSX. I think the specs said something about it only running in 25k mode or something like that.
Any information on this would be a great help. I just want to make sure I purchase something I'm going to like for a monitor in my arcade cabinet. currently I have a TV but it's just not the same.
Thanks,
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Can you post the specs? If it's a 25khz monitor (EGA) it's definitely not a good candidate for emulation as it will be limited to 512x384 resolution.
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I'm not sure about the specs but they guy did say it couldn't only do 25khz...The model is 27K5201 and the monitor part number is WGM2752-U0GS37F. I really can't find much information on this monitor.
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If this monitor doesn't work out is there any monitors out there right now that I should be looking at for a decent price. I know a lot of the well gardner monitors are not available. I'm looking to play a lot of emulators on my cabinet but want the old CRT feel.
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I'm not sure about the specs but they guy did say it couldn't only do 25khz...The model is 27K5201 and the monitor part number is WGM2752-U0GS37F. I really can't find much information on this monitor.
That's actually a good thing (it's probably a standard CGA arcade monitor). If you can somehow find some specs on it, post them here. If it's a 15khz monitor, that's definitely a good deal assuming it works.
To connect to a PC, you will need to hack a VGA cable (or buy a VGA breakout cable from ultimarc). Use this guide to connect the appropriate wires to the monitor: (http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/attachments/f9-microsoft-xbox-360/21857d1241344056-xbox-360-audio-video-mod-vga_pinout.jpg)
Then you'll either need to use Soft15khz to get low arcade resolutions, or buy an ArcadeVGA card from ultimarc.com.
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Sorry I ment it can only do 25khz, I think.
I can't find any more specs on this monitor.
Do you know what is available to purchase now a days for a arcade monitor.
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For anyone reading this and seeing that wiring diagram above, DO NOT CONNECT PIN 9 TO GROUND. This pin used to be empty (and as such could be connected however you feel like it), but it's now used for +5V (it was never used for ground). So, of you connect that pin to ground, you're shorting +5V to ground. Some video cards have protection to keep this from being too big of a problem, but many don't.
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if it can do 15hz ? You do all the emulation you want, run older games in progressive native res , up to 220 lines, ( work fine for most horizontal mame, nes, genesis, tg-16 ) and for snes and above, you can do 640x480, but it will be interlaced. ( personally , I can't stand interlaced. )
but.. IMHO , 170$ is too much for a tube that only does 25hz . I just bought a used tri-sync 27" kortek for 200$ shipped on ebay. it can do 640x480 or 600x800 in progressive scan