Has anyone had any trouble with iCade board and vertical arcade monitor?

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Has anyone had any trouble with iCade board and vertical arcade monitor?

Trying to get a 2nd generation iCade board to work with my 13" arcade monitor and everything looks great but I am getting this weird double image.

It's like the image is split into two on the screen...it's the correct width..but it's split into two on top each other and compressed down. None of the settings will change anything.

I have the dip switch set correctly for CGA and everything. I hooked up a 1st generation board and same issue.

Here's the weird thing, I grabbed a untouched 19" monitor off my shelf and hooked it up to the board...same exact thing. It does it on the 1st and 2nd generation iCade boards.
Not sure what is going on here, but I would like to use the 13" arcade monitor before putting a 17" LCD in the cab

Any ideas? I know the iCade outputs 15.75 khz on the CGA output...but I am not familiar with that enough to know if it's something I need to look into

I thought about finding a VGA to CGA converter and bypassing the CGA on the iCade, using the VGA output and trying that
 
Check the dip sw 2 again. Toggle it off and on to make sure it definitely is in the right position. What monitor and how do you have your rgbs connected?
 
ok, I'll check that dip switch again

It's a hybrid wells gardner k7000 series and matching yoke on a TV monitor..there's a thread about it somewhere that I listed the TV tubes.

This tube checked out to be the closest...and even the yoke ohm'ed out the same even thought I used the WG one. Same brand tube too.

I have it hooked up based on a diagram I found on the web....single -H sync connection. -V isn't hooked up or tied into

http://arcadecontrols.com/BBBB/sync.html

I would normally blame it on the monitor...but I have a 19" Kortek untouched monitor that it is doing the same thing too when I hook it up.

Could it possibly be my sync wiring?
 
It really sounds like dip sw 2. You typically get the two images when it is set to VGA and you plug in a CGA monitor. Your sync sounds right for K7000. For Kortek you may need to loop the composite sync to -H and -V and/or check the switches on the Kortek (some models have a + sync and - sync switch)
 
cool, I'll mess with that in a little bit and see what can figure out

Thanks for you help
 
That was it, guess I didn't have the dipswitch set correctly...I'm super excited

Thanks again for the help, now I have to adjust some minor settings to get it just right and I am good to go
 

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