FINALLY finished my Multi-Williams Control Panel - it was actually not fun!
I picked up this Bubbles cabinet off of CL last summer. It was JAMMA'd and had Combatribes in it when I got it. The JAMMA harness was a little ghetto and missing some wires so I had to pretty much start over. This was my first time wiring a cabinet from scratch and I am actually a little proud that it all worked out. However, crimping and wiring all the molex connector's was an absolute bear. My hand was achin' near the end. I don't ever want to crimp another molex pin again. Holy crap, that sucked!
Anyways, I got it all together now and I think the Control Panel turned out great. I decided to just get the ArcadeShop metal control panel and the matching overlay. Quite frankly, I just wanted to be done with it and am happy overall with how it looks but I do wish it didn't have Moon Patrol on it since I have the JROK board. Oh yeah, you guys were complaining about the rivet dimples showing through the CPO. I don't see any of that. I applied the CPO on the bare metal. There are no dimples. NOTE: The Bob Roberts NOS Wico buttons are not that great. I think I will replace them. They feel very cheap.
Also, a little lesson from me to you... don't cut all the coin door wires in one shot when the cabinet is ON. I fried my JROK board when I did it. I must have shorted something to ground or whatever. I fried the input buffer. He was beyond cool enough to fix it for free but what an anti-climatic moment that was! The minute I was done with the CP, I fried the PCB. SUCKED! I should have the board back tomorrow. Thanks JROK!
Anyways, here are some photos of how the CP turned out. I think I will get Rich's marquee when he finishes it to replace the Bubbles marquee. If you guys have any ideas for bezels I would love to hear them.
Here is a before:
I picked up this Bubbles cabinet off of CL last summer. It was JAMMA'd and had Combatribes in it when I got it. The JAMMA harness was a little ghetto and missing some wires so I had to pretty much start over. This was my first time wiring a cabinet from scratch and I am actually a little proud that it all worked out. However, crimping and wiring all the molex connector's was an absolute bear. My hand was achin' near the end. I don't ever want to crimp another molex pin again. Holy crap, that sucked!
Anyways, I got it all together now and I think the Control Panel turned out great. I decided to just get the ArcadeShop metal control panel and the matching overlay. Quite frankly, I just wanted to be done with it and am happy overall with how it looks but I do wish it didn't have Moon Patrol on it since I have the JROK board. Oh yeah, you guys were complaining about the rivet dimples showing through the CPO. I don't see any of that. I applied the CPO on the bare metal. There are no dimples. NOTE: The Bob Roberts NOS Wico buttons are not that great. I think I will replace them. They feel very cheap.
Also, a little lesson from me to you... don't cut all the coin door wires in one shot when the cabinet is ON. I fried my JROK board when I did it. I must have shorted something to ground or whatever. I fried the input buffer. He was beyond cool enough to fix it for free but what an anti-climatic moment that was! The minute I was done with the CP, I fried the PCB. SUCKED! I should have the board back tomorrow. Thanks JROK!
Anyways, here are some photos of how the CP turned out. I think I will get Rich's marquee when he finishes it to replace the Bubbles marquee. If you guys have any ideas for bezels I would love to hear them.
Here is a before:
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