Hooking VCR up to B/W monitor.

[babydickonboard]

Ok, here is what i'm trying to accomplish.  I have a arcade monitor that I want to troubleshoot, and I want to hook up a VCR or something similier to test and see if it works.  When the power to the cab is turned on, i can hear the monitor charge up, but the screen remains black.  The monitor is a B/W "WG19V1001" from a space invaders cabinet.  The thread http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,34373.0.html suggested hooking a VCR up to a monitor to see if the monitor works, but how to acually do it was never acually explained.  Any help would be greatly appreciated as it would be a great help to me.  Thanks.

[Ken Layton]

On the arcade monitor there is a large square connector mounted in a square hole in the metal chassis below the power transformer. I think it is a 12 pin connector (P1). Pins 1 and 2 are the video input. Pin 1 is the video signal and pin 2 is the video ground (shield). Go to Radio Shack and buy any one of these 3 cables: 42-2370 (3 ft long), 42-2371 (6 ft long), or 42-2372 (12 ft long). Connect the shield of this cable to pin 2 of the monitor connector and the center conductor of the cable to pin 1 of the monitor connector. Now you can plug this cable into your video output of a VCR, etc and see the video on this monitor.

[babydickonboard]

hey thanks alot for the help!