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Arcadenewb

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  1. How'd you go mate? Get it working? If you have access to another cabinet then at least you can begin the process of elimination by ruling out the unit. I've heard that these chinese things can come with some terrible solder joints. I've heard solder can be across multiple pins.
  2. The only person I have heard of in queensland is Paul Ridgway at Stafford. I haven't had anything to do with him just yet. I'm going to get him to look at a monitor and chassis soon.
  3. Mine did the exact same thing. Set it to free play and everything was all good
  4. @jbtech Thanks very much for the detailed response. It's appreciated. I haven't adjusted the horizontal hold yet. I'll have a play with it later and put metal slug back in to see what happens
  5. So I had to google the terms you used. So the monitor has a vertical and horizontal scan. The sync signal separator is a chip that measures this scanning/pulsing??? Is that sort of right? The high pitch noise apparently is made from the flyback transformer and apparently is common in crt monitors but what I've read is that its supposed to control the horizontal movement not the vertical so I don't know why adjusting the vertical hold would affect that. I should've worked in electronics repairs for a couple of years. I'm out of my depth for the moment
  6. Hi Jomac. Sorry if this is a stupid question. I've been watching youtube videos, reading posts on this forum and others. I want to know what the f I'm doing when I adjust......well, the adjustments, on my monitors. The only useful piece of information I found is that the adjustments work like a normal potentiometer. So to me that's adjusting levels of voltage/resistance. I adjusted the vertical hold on my monitor to play a game because it was scrolling. What did I actually do? What parts did I affect and how? I want to learn but I really only learn by seeing and doing. Cheers mate
  7. Something I noticed after adjusting the vertical hold. Something on the chassis has become noisy. Its not a buzzing but it definitely wasn't there before. I actually have no idea off what that vertical hold is doing. I know it stopped the picture moving but how. Is it a resistance thing? I'll be looking into that tonight. I noticed there's a Jomac sub section . Maybe I should just ask him how the adjustments actually adjust
  8. The vertical hold fixed the flickering screen. I still need to finish the new loom to get all 6 buttons working. @jbtech. The flipping of the image relates to a gun cabinet I'm sorting out. I have multiple games that I switch in and out of 1 cabinet. I have to keep flipping the image to suit.
  9. Cheers Cursed for moving the post. Thanks for the replies. I'll finish my loom hopefully today and I'll try the horizontal and vertical hold adjustments. Those wires on the back of the monitor are what I was talking about switching @Autosteve. I'll have a better look at a broken cabinet and play with the wiring on that. It sounds like I can use just normally 10amp switch mechs. One for image flip left/right and the other for up/down. Just had a look at a crt schematic on line. An intermediate switch mech should work not a standard mech.
  10. dam. Sorry guys. Don't know how I put it in the pinball section. Could I get someone to move it to the arcade section please?
  11. Hey guys. I've just received my pandora's box DX. I plugged it in to one of my cabinets that runs Metal Slug X. I had sound and picture but the screen was flickering. I swapped it over to my lethal enforcers cabinet and it worked fine, even though it was upside down and back to front. No big deal there. I'll put some pics up of my tube and chasis that was flickering. Could it be that its's not 15KHz? Does metal slug X play on a higher resolution monitor which is the reason for the flickering? I'm making a new loom for it to eliminate the wiring as an issue but I don't want to spend to much time with that cabinet if its just never going to work. Hopefully these pictures aren't too average There was also an a jamma adapter connected between the loom and pcb that has what seems to be a power lead hanging off it. That lead is just floating in the cabinet doing nothing. I couldn't find any information on it. What does it do? And my last question is am I able to physically switch the horizontal and vertical picture on the monitor from an external switch or directly from whatever pcb I have in the cabinet. Some games have it built into them when you boot up but others dont and I have to get into the back of the cabinet to switch the wires around. 1st world problem but I would like to just be able to flick a button on the cabinet if it's not going to blow anything up Cheers
  12. Hey mate. Hit up Highway entertainment. They found me a time crisis 2 a while back. I wasn't allowed to buy it though. Bloody misses. They wanted 2k plus gst at the time and delivery was I think $200 per pallet space or close to that.
  13. the only wireless I personally install is via waps. I don't like wireless cameras at all. Also wireless cameras still need power to operate unless you get one of those usb rechargeable things from bunnings. Swann would be your best bet for a system under $1000. They come with pre terminated cables. All plug and play. Just follow the instructions. I normally put the NVR/DVR in a cupboard up high. I never put them in ceiling spaces due to heat. Swann aren't real good on warranty though. I've had plenty of trouble with that side of things.
  14. Yeah I did. Apparently all positive. I'm just not a trusting person any more. I've been done over too many times
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