A N00B To JAMMA Needs Assistance

[DJ Infinity]

Ok,
I know there are a lot of experienced people out here that can help me with this. I want to build a JAMMA machine where I can swap boards etc and have different games. Eventually I want a NAOMI system with GD-ROM drive but for right now all I have is Blitz99 On the way to me. what all do I need o get started? and how do the controls get wired? I have extensive experience with wiring up Mame control panels but this is new.

[spacies]

Google 'jamma pinouts'

[AlexC]

This for the power:

http://therealbobroberts.net/acwiring.html

This for the Jamma wiring:

http://www.jammaboards.com/jcenter_jamma_pinout.html

[DJ Infinity]

Thank you. I will study these things 

[Bleagh]

You'll have to get a video encoder to convert the cga to composite or whatever.  That is unless you have an arcade monitor or a monitor that can display cga.  The naomi runs at 31hz so you can just use a pc monitor for that.

[DJ Infinity]

The NAOMI is a want. But thanx for the info. what I have on the way is Blitz99. I did buy a video converter cause at the time of this posting all I have are LCD's I don't have a CGA monitor anywhere. I am going to the amusement auction tomorrow, I hope I can snag a decnt cab with monitor to put blitz99 in.

[TheDriver]

I did buy a video converter cause at the time of this posting all I have are LCD's

Can I ask what converter you got?

Regards.

[Level42]

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/JAMMA

[DJ Infinity]

I did buy a video converter cause at the time of this posting all I have are LCD's

Can I ask what converter you got?

Regards.

Hmm I can't find the seller on ebay anymore. It was like $92.00. I havent tested it yet.

[DJ Infinity]

This for the power:

http://therealbobroberts.net/acwiring.html

This for the Jamma wiring:

http://www.jammaboards.com/jcenter_jamma_pinout.html

Ok, I am beginning my project today can someone help me out with wiring? The one on the realbobroberts is kinda outdated for what I am doing. I do not need an isolation transformer in the equasion. My monitor plugs directly into a socket. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Bleagh]

Just leave the isolation transformer out and the rest stays the same.

What kind of power supply do you have?

[DJ Infinity]

The Black Happs one. I was told also the inline fuse is not needed. Can someone put it in dummy terms. Step 1 do this etc. and give me a pic I could zoom in on or at least one I can see clearly. Thanx 

[Bleagh]

If you want you can just put the field ground from the plug straight to fg on the power supply, and the other two on the ac/l and ac/n  it doesnt matter which one goes on l or n as just make sure the ground (the big round pin on the bottom of the plug) goes to FG.  and it will work.

http://www.bleagh.com/basic-ac.gif

not the best way to do it, but it will work.

[DJ Infinity]

That much I gathered looking at my Blitz cab. Ok can you show me where the on off switch get wired to please? thank you 

[Bleagh]

you can put a switch on either ac line, or both.

[DJ Infinity]

So lemme get this str8 (you know I'm a lil slow) the on off switch can be wired to the same spot as the ac lines? Do I need 3 wires for it aswell or just two? Thank you for helping me 

[Bleagh]

Something like this will work.

http://www.bleagh.com/switch-ac.gif

[DJ Infinity]

Thank you!
so that other block that Bob Roberts had I guess acts as a splitter? so you could split off ac to the marquee correct? One more question and I think I have it. What gauge wire does one use for this? The guy at radio shack looked at me all goofy when I asked what gauge wire do you use for AC wiring.

[TheDriver]

18 gauge wire should be fine, that's what I used.