Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: hnugz on January 19, 2006, 02:45:17 pm
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So I'm trying to figure out what I need to rework and what I can remove and I just wanted to know what some of this stuff is. This is my first arcade so bare (sp?) with me.
Here is a pic of the inside:
http://www.horrorcoregames.com/pics/inside2draw.JPG
1: So what is this thing? I believe it is attached to my monitor. I am assuming I should leave that alone.
2. There are wires going into this part which seem to be attached to the power supply. Here is a good pic of it:
http://www.horrorcoregames.com/pics/monitor1.jpg
My main question is, I have a jpac/arcade vga/jamma harness, how do I hook this monitor up? Anyone have a good site which shows what needs to be connected where?
3. I am assuming this is the power supply since the power cord goes into that (duh) and I will need to keep that.
4. This looks like the isolation transformer that I read about in the proj arcade book. I also assume I will need to leave this alone.
There is just so much stuff in there I just seem kind of lost. There are wires going to the light for the marquee, wires to the coin door, and other stuff. I'm sure I will have more questions later. The main problem is just with the monitor and how to hook that up.
Thanks for the help.
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1. Thats a picture control panel for your monitor, to adjust brightness, v-hold etc.
2. Have a look at Ultimarc's Connecting an arcade monitor to a VGA card (http://www.ultimarc.com/monfaq.html) section.
3. Thats a power supply that gives 5v and 12v to an arcade game PCB.
4. Thats an isolation transformer, used to power your monitor.
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It should be noted that monitors carry enough voltage to kill a person in a heartbeat. They are basically HUUUUGE capacitors. That big red wire for example has 50,000 Volts running though it, AAAANNNNDDDDD they can kill you even when they are unplugged. Very very very dangerous to the untrained.
If you don't post again we'll assume you found that out the hard way :o
http://www.mameworld.net/massive/How-to/Monitor_Safety/monitor_safety.html
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It should be noted that monitors carry enough voltage to kill a person in a heartbeat. They are basically HUUUUGE capacitors. That big red wire for example has 50,000 Volts running though it, AAAANNNNDDDDD they can kill you even when they are unplugged. Very very very dangerous to the untrained.
If you don't post again we'll assume you found that out the hard way :o
http://www.mameworld.net/massive/How-to/Monitor_Safety/monitor_safety.html
I found out the hard way -- never stick a screwdriver under the suction cup! ZZzzaappP!!! :o
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Yeah I've learned that ;D, that's why I am asking which wires I would need to mess with on the monitor to hook stuff up.
Fixed the second link there...dunno what I was thinking.
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If you are going to MAME this, then you do not need the power supply to be "active" (powered). You'll be using your own PC's power supply instead.
The monitor controls thingy you have mounted to the side of that cab, should ideally be mounted somewhere near the FRONT of the cab. The whole purpose of that board with knobs is to adjust the picture, and ideally you need to be LOOKING AT the monitor to do that. It's not high prioryt but some time down the line you should mount it somewhere accessible either through your coin door, or through your control panel area (when you have the control panel opened/removed).
As for hooking up AVGA to the monitor, that part is easy. Get a JPAC.