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Title: Best way to test a CRT monitor?
Post by: heemid on July 27, 2009, 09:18:29 am
There is a local guy that has ~25 PVM-2950Q, he said they have VGA input through BNC, will these even work well for an arcade?
I was going to bring my laptop, test them and get a few. Whats the best/easiest/fastest way to check them? I was thinking just a NTSC test pattern. Thanks.
Title: Re: Best way to test a CRT monitor?
Post by: heemid on July 27, 2009, 09:35:27 am
Some Pics I pulled from an Ebay listing
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Title: Re: Best way to test a CRT monitor?
Post by: mvsfan on July 28, 2009, 06:42:33 pm
have you ever noticed how their are 6 wires coming off of jamma monitors and boards?

R, G, B, 2 sync pins, and Ground?

your line 3 set of connections on this monitor are for seperate y g b sync connections.

sounds to me like you need to order a bnc breakout cable from Cables to go or digikey.

and yes i believe you could use this with an ArcadeVGA provided you had the arcade VGA breakout as well as the BNC breakout. simply a matter of matching up the colors i believe.

Andy?

Title: Re: Best way to test a CRT monitor?
Post by: mvsfan on July 28, 2009, 06:43:44 pm
as far as testing the thing, just bring your supergun with you.
Title: Re: Best way to test a CRT monitor?
Post by: mvsfan on July 28, 2009, 06:46:49 pm
Quote from: mvsfan on July 28, 2009, 06:43:44 pm
as far as testing the thing, just bring your supergun with you.
Quote from: mvsfan on July 28, 2009, 06:43:44 pm
as far as testing the thing, just bring your supergun with you.

oh yeah, forgot this. You need to hook up the bnc breakout to your supergun's video.
Title: Re: Best way to test a CRT monitor?
Post by: Jack Burton on July 29, 2009, 08:05:05 pm
These make excellent arcade monitors.  You will need a VGA to RGBHV cable and soft15khz installed on your computer.  From there on I recommend you use Nokia monitor test to test the convergence, color, and geometry of the monitor.

If you want to use your laptop I recommend burning a test DVD and using the S-video input on the monitor to check the image quality.