I need to see what's under the hood in a Moon Patrol

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I need to see what's under the hood in a Moon Patrol

So while I try to clean off the outside of my Moon Patrol which hasn't been in Moon Patrol in many many years. It's time that I take inventory on the inside. I have remnants of some power supplies, Jamma harness, part of a street fighter board and God knows what. I was hoping someone could take a few pictures of the inside of their Moon Patrol since this is my first Williams game and I have absolutely no idea what it's supposed to look like on the inside. I'm so used to early Atari I forgot that other people made Games as well.
Thank you very much,
 
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So while I try to clean off the outside of my Moon Patrol which hasn't been in Moon Patrol in many many years. It's time that I take inventory on the inside. I have remnants of some power supplies, Jamma harness, part of a street fighter board and God knows what. I was hoping someone could take a few pictures of the inside of their Moon Patrol since this is my first Williams game and I have absolutely no idea what it's supposed to look like on the inside. I'm so used to early Atari I forgot that other people made Games as well.
Thank you very much,

good timing, just brought my moon patrol home from storage and about to clean it out. Have to run out for a couple of hours but will post pics when I get back if someone hasn't already.
 
Please do, the more details &pictures the better :) Because it's kind of like working in the dark here. When I got my BattleZone up and running at least had my Red Baron to go off of.
 
Well I have my own kind of mess, lots of hacking of power wires, to clean up but hopefully these will help some. Nothing like 100V monitor running on 120+ Vac.

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a few more. note there is some hackery here and there. Have to replace the joystick with correct 2way leaf.

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hot dog this is a lot of pieces that I'm missing of course I'd like to find a junker cabinet but most people don't give up Moon Patrol that easily so I'm probably going to have to hunt for parts. But that's okay I'm starting grad school this month so I really don't have a lot of extra cash at the moment. But that's usually when all the games and parts come to me :) can I ask what type of monitor you have in there? I have a monitor but I don't know if it was meant for the game or not.
 
hot dog this is a lot of pieces that I'm missing of course I'd like to find a junker cabinet but most people don't give up Moon Patrol that easily so I'm probably going to have to hunt for parts. But that's okay I'm starting grad school this month so I really don't have a lot of extra cash at the moment. But that's usually when all the games and parts come to me :) can I ask what type of monitor you have in there? I have a monitor but I don't know if it was meant for the game or not.

I think most people just end up putting a switcher in on moon patrol so I doubt you need any specific parts. Pretty sure all the williams transformers and even the AC wiring side, are the same too. Hopefully the pcb holder is in there. I know Dokert made moon patrol harnesses way back, maybe someone else is making them now, but it wouldn't be too hard to make your own or just wire it jamma and use an adapter.

My monitor is wrong and not original. It is/was a 100v nanao and was using 120v (my house is like 130v). Also mine is actually missing the "monitor slide out board" so I plan on cutting a board and mounting a k7000 or a g07. It likely had a g07 orginally.

good luck. Mine is completely gutted now, going to clean and do some bodywork tomorrow.
 
I think most people just end up putting a switcher in on moon patrol so I doubt you need any specific parts.

That is true, so depends on how original you want it to be. I prefer mine to be running the linear, so I'll be converting mine back at some point.

Pretty sure all the williams transformers and even the AC wiring side, are the same too.

I haven't explicitly checked this, but I believe this to be true.

I know Dokert made moon patrol harnesses way back, maybe someone else is making them now, but it wouldn't be too hard to make your own or just wire it jamma and use an adapter.

I'm not aware of anyone making these harnesses at the moment.

It likely had a g07 orginally.

Both of mine had a 4900, plus there is an official Williams 4900 monitor manual amendment that requires a different capacitor in the horizontal section (for proper width), so my guess is that most if not all of the Moon Patrols came with a 4900, although it really doesn't matter as long as it displays full width.
 
You beat me to it on the monitor info. To add on the PS, much easier to just go with a switcher since Moon Patrol isn't technically a Williams title, and the linear is just a pain in that cabinet mounted at the bottom. It does not seem to add or detract from the value like other cabinets.
 
Well I have my own kind of mess, lots of hacking of power wires, to clean up but hopefully these will help some. Nothing like 100V monitor running on 120+ Vac.

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Holy crap! Off mounting the bridge is so hilarious!
 
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Both of mine had a 4900, plus there is an official Williams 4900 monitor manual amendment that requires a different capacitor in the horizontal section (for proper width), so my guess is that most if not all of the Moon Patrols came with a 4900, although it really doesn't matter as long as it displays full width.

Good info. I didn't have a 4900 I could use so used a matsushita tm-202g. Only issue is I can 't adjust the width to be wide enough.

Holy craptastic!

Here is a pic of it all cleaned up. Fixed the linear PS, cut new monitor shelf and back of coin area, soldered, installed a 120v monitor, and heat shrank all the splices back to original, etc.

I also double tapped GND, +5 and +12 per your thread here for future use of a switcher if needed (still need to put a molex on). The coin harness has logic gnd and +5 so I guess you could use that for coin door lights in the future, instead of 6.3vac from linear.

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