Dynamo cabinet monitor questions

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Hi guys, I was lucky and got a good condition Dynamo cabinet for $35 from an arcade closeout! It still has the capcom Q-sound amp, Jamma harness and power supply, just no monitor and I will need to work on the control panel.

My cabinet looks like this one: http://share.ovi.com/media/airthrow.public/airthrow.10105

I have a couple of questions:

1) What type of monitor originally came in it? Can I fit a 29inch viewable in there?

2) Is there a monitor I could buy that would work well with standard resolution, but also be able to support medium resolution? I want to play Titan games in here too.

3) Where is the best place to find this type of monitor for sale online?

Thanks for the help in advance, I am a new arcade cab owner. =)
 
Hi guys, I was lucky and got a good condition Dynamo cabinet for $35 from an arcade closeout! It still has the capcom Q-sound amp, Jamma harness and power supply, just no monitor and I will need to work on the control panel.

My cabinet looks like this one: http://share.ovi.com/media/airthrow.public/airthrow.10105

I have a couple of questions:

1) What type of monitor originally came in it? Can I fit a 29inch viewable in there?

2) Is there a monitor I could buy that would work well with standard resolution, but also be able to support medium resolution? I want to play Titan games in here too.

3) Where is the best place to find this type of monitor for sale online?

Thanks for the help in advance, I am a new arcade cab owner. =)

1) I don't know if you can fit a 29" in there, you probably meant 27", but I really don't know. going based on some games I've seen on here that have taken 25" standard and they went bigger, I'll say you can probably make a 27" screen work. the original monitor was 25".

2) considering that you want to play different resolution games, I'd have to recommend something like the Wells-Gardner D9800 which is a digital tri-sync unit. it automatically senses what resolution the game is running at. stay away from the D9200 however, even if you find it on the cheap.

3) Wells-Gardner actually sells such a unit direct. whether they ship or not though, I don't know. probably would cost a fortune, considering they're here in Illinois and you're in Washington. I'd check with whatever distributor is nearest to you. I might be able to find this out for you, unless that person gets to you first. :)

expect to pay a pretty penny for that kind of monitor, but it's exactly what you need. they're great cause you don't have to switch anything like you would on an older WG U5000 (dual res, runs standard and medium) where you have to move this ridiculous to remove connector between 15K and 24K modes.

Makvision also makes tri-sync monitors, they run a little bit less in price, but some people have suggested that the tube quality isn't that great, and others praise them. personally, we replaced the monitor in our DDR Extreme with one of these (a flat CRT) back in Oct. 2008 and it still looks fine.

I'd research whether or not you can run a 27" monitor in this cab first however. the ones I speak of were made by Midway.
 
That cabinet in all likelihood had a 25" universal frame monitor in it originally. You might get lucky and get a 27" to fit, but I don't think you'd get a 29" in there.
 
that's the guy. lol

Ken, do you know any distributors in the WA area? maybe give OP an idea of where to go/what to do.

possibly know the width of the mounting holes on a 27" monitor so they can measure before dropping money on it.
 
that's the guy. lol

Ken, do you know any distributors in the WA area? maybe give OP an idea of where to go/what to do.

possibly know the width of the mounting holes on a 27" monitor so they can measure before dropping money on it.

Thanks so much for your help. I'll remeasure tonight but I swore the diagonal was like 30 inches or so. The Wells Gardener D9800, if it is a digital tri-sync, does that mean that standard resolution games will look strange since they're not analog anymore? I would like my standard res games to look as close to intended as possible, but if the difference is not TOO bad then I will probably just get a trisync for convenience.

Digital monitors like the D9800 use VGA as the input, right? How is it wired to the JAMMA harness?

edit: All the D9800 monitors I see are 27", I am worried about it not fitting if I get it now!
 
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If you are going bigger than a 25" monitor, make sure that the cabinet is deep enough to fit the bigger monitor too.
 
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