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rhuel:

--- Quote from: ahofle on December 12, 2007, 06:33:28 pm ---You should try hooking that TV up to a PC with an RF converter before you do anything else.  You may not even find the picture to be acceptable -- RF is pretty much the worst possible video connection you could have. The arcade monitor may look better even with the screen burn.

EDIT: nevermind I see now that the chassis was removed.

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Very good advice. Thanks. The pic quality really stunk overall with the RF converter. It was a pain to get the resolution set right under linux and even worse in windows. There were black lines at the top and bottom, and at 640x480 the refresh rate was at 53 instead of 60 and that was all I could get it to do. There was a bunch of flicker on the top 3 inches of the screen. Images looked ok, but text on wah!cade and mamewah was "double visioned" and there were green diagonal, horizontal lines that were very noticeable on a dark background.

I tore apart the 27" RCA TruFlat TV that has S-Video inputs to see if the tube might fit. It was about an inch or so too wide.

I swapped the Philips 201B 21" CRT (20" viewable) from the kids room with the IBM 17" I use on my test/build machines. It looked great, so I pulled the cover off, unbolted it from the plastic and mocked it up into the metal frame that was used to mount the original monitor chassis. I will have to build a wooden frame around it to secure it well enough, but at least I got to see how it will fit. It's late, I'm tired and I've spent countless hours so far thinking and tinkering with this.

Glad I tried the converter before settling on using the 25" TV.

Here are some pics of the mock up. Should this thread be in the build/projects section? I didn't see that section till after I posted this. Sorry.





Kajoq:
Just a heads up, both www.lizardlick.com  and www.jammaboards.com Have jamma harnesses on thier sites.  I got one from jamma boards a month or two back

rhuel:

--- Quote from: Kajoq on December 15, 2007, 08:03:28 am ---Just a heads up, both www.lizardlick.com  and www.jammaboards.com Have jamma harnesses on their sites.  I got one from jamma boards a month or two back

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Thanks for the links. I didn't know about lizardlick.com. I saw the harnesses on jammaboards.com, but wasn't sure of the benefit to getting a JPAC now that I'm only going to need to wire up controls and not the monitor. Wouldn't an IPAC be more suited to what I'm doing? I don't have any "fear" issues of wiring or soldering if wires are cut between the CP and JAMMA connector. I think I'll start with plugging in the CP connectors and tracing/checking continuity back to each button/joystick.

I still have a LONG way to go on this. Thanks for the advice so far everyone. I'm sure I'll be asking more questions and revising the plan as I go along. Hopefully not too many revisions are in the future.  ;)

Kajoq:
Yeah if you're just going the TV route, definitely do an Ipac over a JPAC.

I ended up replacing the Jamma harness in the SF3 machine I bought because it was a huge clusterfark or splicing and brittle wires.  Instead of using a proper kick harness they had spliced a 3rd player harness and done all sorts of other crazy things.  Also I still use jamma boards every now and then instead of my MAME box.

Ipac would be a much simpler solution for you though

rhuel:

--- Quote from: Kajoq on December 15, 2007, 10:59:37 am ---Yeah if you're just going the TV route, definitely do an Ipac over a JPAC.

I ended up replacing the Jamma harness in the SF3 machine I bought because it was a huge clusterfark or splicing and brittle wires.  Instead of using a proper kick harness they had spliced a 3rd player harness and done all sorts of other crazy things.  Also I still use jamma boards every now and then instead of my MAME box.

Ipac would be a much simpler solution for you though

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Cool thanks for clarifying.

I managed to discharge the monitor and separate the neck board and power so I can work with the tube a little easier. Now to find a scrap 2'x2' piece of mdf or plywood to make a good support.





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