Comming along Very well

[stan2323]

I would fist like to say thanks to all for answering my questions.  Here is my cab so far.  The Marquee looks fantastic but I can not capture it too well with the camera.  I made this in panels that bolt together using 3/8 or 5/16 bolts in 2 by 4s on each panel.  I comes apart into about 8 panels.  Next time I have it apart I will take pictures of the panels.  I need to get art work, do quite a bit of finishing work and put my power switch in.  But you get the idea. 

First iteration of control panel.




Then after I got some blue Tron handles.  The plastic insert in temporary until I figure out what I want to do.  I do not want to drill holes in the Tron insert but I do not want to remove the buttons from the stick.




Some pictures of how the panels bolt together.





Example of how I ganged the grounds on a bus bar.  Worked out great because I added four side buttons for pinball and 2 buttons in the front and all I had to do was run the ground to the bus bar and to the terminal on the GP-Wiz.  No need to mess with a daisy chain.




Left and right with CP in place.




The control panel and screen it is a 24 in wide screen LCD.




It also rotates to vertical with the flip of a switch.  No problems with the viewing angle either way.



The Marquee looks great but I can not get it to look as good in the picture. 

[weisshaupt]

Nice work...


Let me know if you would like help at automating the LCD rotation? I still haven't got a lot of feedback on the MALA plugin a wrote-- either because it doesn't work at all, or because it works well enough no one sees fit to complain... and I need some incentive to begin a command line version...



Do you have any pictures of the rotation mechanism/mount you used.. I think there are quite a few poeple (including myself) that would be insterest in the details...

[stan2323]

Do you have any pictures of the rotation mechanism/mount you used.. I think there are quite a few poeple (including myself) that would be insterest in the details...

I will get some up in the next day or 2. 

[stan2323]

Here are close ups of the turning motor.  The pressure of the motor against the board turn the monitor without any problem.  The monitor is mounted on 1/4 inch press board.  I used 8 pieces of 1 by 2  screwed to the press board to hold the monitor in place.  Then the pressboard is mounted to a 12 inch lazy Suzan bearing.  I cut a 2 inch hole in the center that the power and VGA cable from the monitor to the plug and computer.

The first one is from the front looking at the pulley.  The pulley is attached to the shaft of the motor.  The motor is 12 Volt 25 RPM.  The pulley is held up against the board that has the monitor attached to it with the springs that you see in the 2nd picture.  The motor is held on by one bolt in one corner so it can pivot to put presser on the board with the monitor. 





This is from the bottom.  Right now I am using alligator clips to hold the wires on the motor.  It works ok but next time I take it apart I am going to solder them.   





I used 2 micro switches as limiting switches.  I wired the normally closed contact in the switch so when the limiter hit is it opens the circuit in that direction and stops the motor. 



I used a double through double pole center off switch.  This way if I want to make it computer controlled I can put 2 relays in for the switch and have the monitor rotate automatically.  Flip the switch up rotates the monitor one direction till it stops and of course flipping it the switch down rotates it in the other direction till it stops.   



Below is a drawing of the circuit.  Excuse the quality of the drawing but you get the idea.