WG 7327

[Pietenpol]

I'm the head mechanic at a bowling alley in Massillon, Ohio. We use these for our scoring system and I wanted to set up a test bench for repairs in addition to piecing together some spare monitors from the parts I have. Is the 7300 series manuals and info the right stuff? Normally mechanics would set up a 'fake lane' in the back with a bowlers terminal, and curtain wall chassis (the unit that moderates between the scoring camera, terminal, monitor and pinsetter). I would rather just use my laptop (s-video out, vista32) or an old tower with an appropriate video card. Wondering what the easiest way to set this up would be. I also have 24 zenith monitors in storage (not sure of the model, will check soon) hoping that there are interchangeable parts.

[SirPeale]

You can output pretty much anything to the monitor for a signal.  A 31Khz signal will just show up doubled.   If you really want to make a proper test fixture, a cheap JAMMA board is the way to go.  Preferably something that outputs a test grid/color bars.

Don't forget, a lot of monitors require isolation.  Not sure if these do or not.

This may help - it's my own test rig/bench.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=80378.10