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Title: Good deal on 19" monitors!
Post by: dhansen on October 01, 2003, 12:12:07 am

Check out http://www.arcadeshop.com/ (http://www.arcadeshop.com/) They have a 19" CGA monitor for $189.  I checked on shipping, and to Des Moines, IA it was only $18.   Not bad! Plus, I'm sick of looking for TV tubes for my 8liners chassis!!! >:(

Doug

Title: Re:Good deal on 19" monitors!
Post by: Cisco Kid on October 01, 2003, 01:24:16 am

yup ... those folks always have good prices on arcade monitors  :)

let us know how your deal goes down with them .... I'm always looking for a new vendor that can be trusted (especially when things arrive broken or damaged ... thats a true test of a good vendor  ;D )

Title: Re:Good deal on 19" monitors!
Post by: dhansen on October 02, 2003, 10:27:55 pm

Nice.. ordered it on Tuesday, on my doorstep on Thursday!  
Here are some pics:

Nicely packaged, undamaged!

(http://www.doughansen.net/arcade/newmonitor/mon1.jpg)

Mmmmm clean....

(http://www.doughansen.net/arcade/newmonitor/mon2.jpg)

Ha! No isolation transformer!! Whoo Hooo!

(http://www.doughansen.net/arcade/newmonitor/mon3.jpg)

Remote controls?  Is this heaven??

(http://www.doughansen.net/arcade/newmonitor/mon4.jpg)

I'll post some in game shots when I find my tripod!!

Oh, could one of you admins move this to the monitors forum?

Now, I only need to buy 2 more!! Having this many machines has it's disadvantages.

Thanks,
Doug

Title: Re:Good deal on 19" monitors!
Post by: OSCAR on October 02, 2003, 11:02:52 pm

$18 is a good price to ship a monitor.  I was talking to Steven a couple weeks ago about something else and I meant to ask him about those monitors, but our conversation drifted and I totally forgot about it.

Definitely post back with some pics and any post-install tips you run across.  Especially the screen adjustments that are available on these chassis.  I have a bench full of old W-G chassis and tubes that I occasionally get a chance to work on, but I will unload them after they are fixed to get a couple new monitors if these are pretty good.  Sometimes there just isn't enough adjustment on these K4600/4900 & GO7 chassis to get the screen perfect for some games.  For example, I can't adjust the horizontal width wide enough on a GO7 to remove the williams "garbage line" from the screen that is visible on the right side of Robotron in my multi-williams cabinet.  And I also installed a new h-width coil, too.  It doesn't affect play at all, but just seeing the edge of it on the screen disturbs me a tiny bit.  :)

Title: Re:Good deal on 19" monitors!
Post by: paigeoliver on October 03, 2003, 06:00:20 am

Hmm, I might buy one of these eventually too.

Title: Re:Good deal on 19" monitors!
Post by: dhansen on October 03, 2003, 11:50:17 am

On the VGA cable hack, the monitor accepts seperate horizontal and vertical sync inputs.  I needed to crank up the brightness and contrast a bit because of the smoked glass on my machine.  I ran Marvel vs Capcom on the machine to get the vert and horiz centering/size correct but other than that it's pretty straight forward.

Doug