basscadet
New member
Hello,
I recently found an abandoned arcade cabinet and took it home to throw away its insides and install an old PC with ultimarc usb controller + joysticks & buttons I already had in an older setup. As I looked around I found out that it sports a Hantarex Polo 25 board on a tv tube I measured to be 28" (that's including the black stripe around screen). I read a bit about it and it looks like a great opportunity to use this one instead of a crappy old 19" AppleVision I had set up all along. It was left there for maybe hours so it wasn't rained on and is in top shape, clean with some minor wear.
see some photos here
http://img260.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=board2.jpg
Thing is, can I somehow connect this Hantarex monitor to a PC monitor output? There's a J106 connector (second from left)with 6 cables coming out (R, G, B, Ground, H sync, V sync) going to some connectors I suspect connected to the game circuit board (that board was missing).
also, where should that ground cable between the power jack and video jack connect to? It's hanging in mid air as you can see and I'm wondering whether I should attach it somewhere (unless it goes on the metal frame I saw in some Hantarex brochure photos).
I reconnected the cut power cable and found out why they dumped it. It's not working. The screen pops like all screens do at start up, there's a faint flash at the 4 corners for a split second... and then nothing. There's a faint glow at the back of the tube though (don't know if it's supposed to be brighter or if it's normal). I tried changing the TEST VIDEO jumper next to the Video Jack to ON in case it powers up the monitor showing some test pattern / lines /whatever but it still doesn't power up properly.
Could it be waiting for video signal and not powering up until it receives one? Any tips appreciated, thanks.
I recently found an abandoned arcade cabinet and took it home to throw away its insides and install an old PC with ultimarc usb controller + joysticks & buttons I already had in an older setup. As I looked around I found out that it sports a Hantarex Polo 25 board on a tv tube I measured to be 28" (that's including the black stripe around screen). I read a bit about it and it looks like a great opportunity to use this one instead of a crappy old 19" AppleVision I had set up all along. It was left there for maybe hours so it wasn't rained on and is in top shape, clean with some minor wear.
see some photos here
http://img260.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=board2.jpg
Thing is, can I somehow connect this Hantarex monitor to a PC monitor output? There's a J106 connector (second from left)with 6 cables coming out (R, G, B, Ground, H sync, V sync) going to some connectors I suspect connected to the game circuit board (that board was missing).
also, where should that ground cable between the power jack and video jack connect to? It's hanging in mid air as you can see and I'm wondering whether I should attach it somewhere (unless it goes on the metal frame I saw in some Hantarex brochure photos).
I reconnected the cut power cable and found out why they dumped it. It's not working. The screen pops like all screens do at start up, there's a faint flash at the 4 corners for a split second... and then nothing. There's a faint glow at the back of the tube though (don't know if it's supposed to be brighter or if it's normal). I tried changing the TEST VIDEO jumper next to the Video Jack to ON in case it powers up the monitor showing some test pattern / lines /whatever but it still doesn't power up properly.
Could it be waiting for video signal and not powering up until it receives one? Any tips appreciated, thanks.