think i got vga box hacked... but...

[krion]

now the colors are impossible to configure.  Im having a helluva time trying to callibrate the colors now.  The background is red, the fonts are near impossible to read etc.  Is it common to have color issues with a vga box?

btw, its going from vga box to jpac

[Dave_K.]

You can't go DC-VGA box to JPAC because the JPAC has a video amplifier and the DC-VGA output is already amplified.  You will notice that your screen continually gets brighter and brighter to the point where its just all white because the amplifier on the jpac overloads the signal.

To play DC-VGA box on an arcade monitor, you need to hack a VGA extension cable to a molex connector which connects to the back of your monitor.

[krion]

thats what i thought, the picture was far too bright. 

Where can I get a molex connector that will fit the monitor board?

On the monitor board, it looks like there is 4 wires, a black, red, green and yellow i think.

[Dave_K.]

thats what i thought, the picture was far too bright. 

Where can I get a molex connector that will fit the monitor board?

On the monitor board, it looks like there is 4 wires, a black, red, green and yellow i think.

I have a Fry's Electonics near me. Just looking in your yellow pages for a eletronics store near you.  And the connection should be 5 wires R, G, B, Gnd, and Sync.

[krion]

got it all setup this afternoon.  hacked apart a vga cable, used multimeter to trace the wires for rgb and sync.  I twisted the 2 sync wires together and wired them to the monitor and used pin 10 for the ground.  works really well