making a power cord for a Wells Gardner 739127K

[Malenko]

theres a white wire and black wire with a tag on it saying "must use isolation transformer"

Well I'm not going to be using an arcade power supply, I was just going to spice a regular cord into those wires. To make it slightly easier I was going to use an XBOX power cord (its polarized and has a stripe down the long leg side) problem is, I dont know if thats what Im supposed to do or not. The monitor says 120V AC and thats what a regular wall outlet uses  ; I guess my questions are:


can I do what I propose without destroying anything AND which wire goes to which prong.  Once I get solid answers (ken layton , you reading this?) I'll do it and take pix and add to the wiki so no one else has to feel this n00bish

[SirPeale]

You MUST MUST MUST *MUST* use an isolation transformer with this monitor?  A power supply doesn't have *anything* to do with an isolation transformer.  The AC goes into the transformer, and comes out isolated from mains. 

You can wire this up with a regular cord if you want, but if your monitor is working...it soon won't be.

I have a few spare isolation transformers kicking around.  $8.00 plus shipping and I'll even wire in a plug for you.

[Malenko]

the cab has one, its the block/coil thingie right? do I just wire the cord to go into the transformer then up to the monitor ?maybe I should snap pix to be safe . Heres one from the former restore thread.





I am pretty much gutting as much wiring out of the cab as possible. Plan to run soft 15 to a PC not another game

[SirPeale]

I can't see it too well, but I think that's an isolation transformer.

As long as you have AC going into it (say a two prong extension cord that you cut the end off of) on the input, you hook the output to your monitor.  It's about as simple as it gets.

[Malenko]

I'll take a pic when I get home before I go splicing anything; Im using an XBOX cord  (not 360) cause I have about a million of them; I might just take the pix and get a wired ISO from you; I need 3 more matching lock sets anyway

[Malenko]

I just removed the jamma harness and left all the power wires ran how they were, theres plenty of room in the cab for the NEOGEO power supply and all the computer stuff. I still need keys Peale

[TOK]

My buddy and I direct wired a monitor from a Kung Fu Master. It was old and the typical MUST USE ISOLATION TRANSFORMER sticker was gone (we were both real naive about games at this point). You should have seen the sparks and smoke when we fired it up. It smelled awful, like burnt clutch.

Sometimes the best lessons are learned through stupidity.