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Title: wiring an old monitor...HELP!!!
Post by: bowmand1 on April 15, 2002, 06:40:38 am
Hi guys...  I have an old RCA 13" (i think) monitor...  looks like it was out of a video poker game, by the slight burn-in.  

Anyway.  It's got a row of 6 pins, a small break, and a row of 3 pins....  X X X X X X     X X X    <--like so.  No labels.

I have a set of original Phoenix boards that I wanna test the video output on.  I've got common, red, blue, and green, and I believe a negative sync.  

What goes where?  Any ideas?  Please write back ASAP
Title: Re: wiring an old monitor...HELP!!!
Post by: bowmand1 on April 16, 2002, 06:25:17 am
okay, since you guys ain't any help...   :P    I guessed, and got the wiring correct (I think)...  however, it's a horizontal monitor, and I'm running vertical boards through it, so it's sideways (which is not a problem, since I can just mount the display on its side)

The problem is that the screen is split, with the top of the game at the bottom, and the bottom at the top (bottom AFTER I turn the display)  And I'm all out of "horizontal adjustment" I think...  

What do I do?  any suggestions?  is there a physical adjustment on old monitors? some "bands" or something like that?
Title: Re: wiring an old monitor...HELP!!!
Post by: bowmand1 on April 16, 2002, 02:49:26 pm
pssh...  you people are useless...  yet again, I had to figure it out MYSELF.  

turns out the monitor I'm using has a separate connector for NEGATIVE sync.  The pins I had jumped my sync wire to were positive sync, which just confuses the aiming of the monitor.  

I downloaded a manual from http://www.spies.com/arcade for some other monitor, just for reference (not even the same brand) and came across this info.   ;D

perserverance over adversity.   I rock.  peace.  --dave
Title: Re: wiring an old monitor...HELP!!!
Post by: JustMichael on April 16, 2002, 04:35:45 pm
Calling people useless will not get people to help any faster.  Simply put, if nobody knows the answer you probably won't get a reply.
Title: Re: wiring an old monitor...HELP!!!
Post by: bowmand1 on April 17, 2002, 06:34:28 am
awww lighten up...  I was just waxing comedic...  I apologize if my dry sarcastic wit failed to translate well across the message board...

my sincerest apologies to any who were offended by my off-hand comment, or who's self-esteem was injured by any words typed by mine hand...  i love you all, with a special kind of love.   ;D

--dave
Title: Re: wiring an old monitor...HELP!!!
Post by: delta88 on April 17, 2002, 06:55:00 am
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awww lighten up...
Title: Re:wiring an old monitor...HELP!!!
Post by: Ken Layton on November 02, 2003, 01:31:06 pm
Of course then you have people like me who only recently discovered the existance of the site. By the way, you didn't tell us the make and model of your monitor.