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my 5 year saga to get my arcade machine working! help!
bkenobi:
I'm not an electrician or an arcade repair person, but if I had to guess, that blue wire is probably a case ground. If that's true, then it shouldn't keep things from working. Case ground is a backup ground for safety as much as anything AFAIK.
BilldaCat:
ok.. i'm done. after getting shocked hitting the power switch a couple times, i've decided it's best for me to just rewire this thing.. at least i'll educate myself a bit more, and understand how it works.
so.. with my current setup.. what do I need to get? arcadevga and a j-pac? is my i-pac basically worthless?
BilldaCat:
--- Quote from: BilldaCat on September 28, 2009, 09:02:02 pm ---Ok.. bear in mind, I am an idiot when it comes to wiring, so talk to me like I'm five.
I've had this machine for a good 8 years or so.. it originally worked, i loved it.. then it died. No idea why. No buttons responded, etc. So I moved once or twice, wires have become unhooked.. I've tried to troubleshoot it with some people here (see previous posts by me), and in general I've been very intimidated since the concept of electricity is foreign to me.
and yet I'm a computer programmer. go figure.
ANYWAY.. after I did some more reading and just tore apart the insides, I started thinking.. hey .. this is much easier than I thought it was.
So I did all the wiring of the controls today.. ground wire, buttons to ipac .. started plugging things in.. hit the power.. jamma monitor does the little 'zzt i am on' sound.. no picture though.
I start following wires around, and there's a lot of seemingly extra buttons and switches that I can't figure out for the life of me what they ever did or are there for.
Some pictures are below.. the questions I have
1) why am I getting no picture (duh)
2) what is the loose wire thingy (i dont know what this is called), and should this be going somewhere?
Ok.. pictures with comments:
Connector coming off the monitor.. wasn't plugged in, I connected it.
--- End quote ---
YEAR 6 BEGINS.
i now have a j-pac and an arcade vga cord. I am unsure of how to hook them up.
My main confusion stems from the picture here.. that white thing in my hand eventually terminates into an absolute jumble of wires, some of it going to wiring block and then soldered to a VGA connector. I'm pretty sure that is toast, I've cut enough wires that I don't think the VGA connector wires are still connected.
I'd like to gut as much of this as possible anyway and do it right, since I have the right equipment now (I think). So .. basically my question is, if I go cutting those wires.. what do I do with the wires coming out of that white thingy?
newmanfamilyvlogs:
I'll assume that is the RGB hook up for the monitor.
There really should only be 4 or 5 wires that you need on that: Red, Green, Blue, Horizontal Sync (h-sync), and Vertical Sync (v-sync). Sometimes the hsync and teh vsync can be wired together to a single wire, and that's called composite sync (csync).
On a standard VGA plug these are pins
Pin 1 RED Red video
Pin 2 GREEN Green video
Pin 3 BLUE Blue video
Pin 13 HSync Horizontal sync
Pin 14 VSync Vertical sync
Usually you can visually see numbers printed on the plug.
Did you ever identify exactly what monitor you have? That will help us tell you what pins on that connector go to each of those pins on the VGA.
BilldaCat:
--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on December 06, 2010, 09:09:46 am ---I'll assume that is the RGB hook up for the monitor.
There really should only be 4 or 5 wires that you need on that: Red, Green, Blue, Horizontal Sync (h-sync), and Vertical Sync (v-sync). Sometimes the hsync and teh vsync can be wired together to a single wire, and that's called composite sync (csync).
On a standard VGA plug these are pins
Pin 1 RED Red video
Pin 2 GREEN Green video
Pin 3 BLUE Blue video
Pin 13 HSync Horizontal sync
Pin 14 VSync Vertical sync
Usually you can visually see numbers printed on the plug.
Did you ever identify exactly what monitor you have? That will help us tell you what pins on that connector go to each of those pins on the VGA.
--- End quote ---
I'll check tonight on the monitor type.
I guess my next stupid question is .. once I have those wires, what next? I solder them to the right pins (red, blue, green, etc) on the J-PAC, and then I'm basically good to go? (after running the vga cable from the j-pac to the arcadevga card).
My PC also bit the dust so I'd be in need of a new cheap machine to run this puppy. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.
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