The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: sdweim85 on November 06, 2013, 07:57:32 pm
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I recently scored a non-working cab in pretty good shape for $50. The guy didn't know what wasn't working, but he wasn't able get it open. Upon opening it, it seemed like nothing was even connected. I know nothing about the internals of a Arcade cab, but I know the dangers of mucking around with a arcade monitor so I don't want to touch it. Here are 2 images I have of the monitor in the cab.
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You're missing the monitor's neckboard and yoke, and I'd bet probably the chassis PCB. Looks like it was scavenged and parted out...
That label in the top right corner of the tube should say what make and model it is ( I see WG, so it's a Wells Gardner for sure). Or there might be stickers on the mount that'll say the chassis model. That'd help, 'cause you'd have to find working replacements for the missing boards to get that monitor working.
Or just swap it out with a complete working monitor.
If you're in the Northwest area, I'll do it for 300 greenbacks. >:D
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Thanks, that's pretty much all I needed to know. I'll probably just take it out and get another working one.
It'd be safe to remove though right?
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Yeah, if the yoke has been removed, there isn't going to be a charge left in it. (you can't remove a yoke without discharging it. well you can, but it would be deadly...)
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It's a WGEC (Wells Gardner)
088X0387-001 Tube type
Another sticker where the board I guess is missing WG 1403893
Googling the tube type isn't giving me anything. Is there some website I can look on that can point me in the right direction as to what parts I need to replace
I think its a K7000, 25 inch. Hard to tell.
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Yeah, I believe that tube was used on K7xxx series of 25" monitors (K7000 and K7400 ?). But some of the more technically knowledgeable members here could confirm that.
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25" is 66ax
26" is 68ax
27" is 69ax
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the deflection yoke is present,it's missing the chassis only
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nothing on it is holding a charge anymore right? I pretty much decided to remove it. Even if I replaced all the parts I wouldn't know if the tube itself worked correctly right? And that is under the assumption I install everything correctly, when I've never done this before.
So it is safe to remove right?
It's a shame because I'd love the arcade experience, but getting it to work, or even putting a CRT TV in it seems like such a hassle.
Gonna be LCD again I guess.
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wells gardner is blowing out some new old stock chassis (u5000 which i believe was basically the old version switchable (15k/25k) like a k7500 or k7400)
and for 75 buck. :dunno
anybody want to chime in if this solution might work on this tube????
http://www.wellsgardner.com/products/details.asp?sPartNum=P738 (http://www.wellsgardner.com/products/details.asp?sPartNum=P738)
it would need a neckboard, but hell, if it would work, i'd mail him one.
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that 1 from the back is off shifted to the right
7400/7500
the tube # is at the top of that sticker u see on the bell of the pitcure tube
it will be the first #
list them all
one should start 6-x-xx
it looks like a 26" to me from the back
same it looks likes a perfect yoke
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that 1 from the back is off shifted to the right
7400/7500
the tube # is at the top of that sticker u see on the bell of the pitcure tube
it will be the first #
list them all
one should start 6-x-xx
it looks like a 26" to me from the back
same it looks likes a perfect yoke
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I still haven't ruled out using it. I have 3 LCDs a 19 inch, 23 inch, and a 27 inch. But every time I look at the arcade monitor, it looks so ---gosh-darn--- beautiful.
If I can figure out exactly what parts I need I will order them, but it's hard to tell. Googling stuff isn't helping me, and even if I did get the parts I don't know how to install them, or what power supply I need. All the specifics are lost on me, and I can't seem to find any good tutorials that really point out exactly what everything is, what's dangerous, how to install, what to do once installed, what's dangerous when powered. None of the stickies in the monitor section helped me.