Jamma Testing station / Monitor testing

[KevinSin]

Hello Everyone-

Does anyone have any advice on a jamma board testing kit? Maybe some kind of mini lcd monitor kit...?

Whats the best way to test a monitor without getting shocked? I have repaired monitors before but always get a little paranoid whenever I am fine tuning them while they are on. Is there an affordable oscilloscope?

thoughts...

 

[KenLayton]

Hello Everyone-

Does anyone have any advice on a jamma board testing kit? Maybe some kind of mini lcd monitor kit...?

Whats the best way to test a monitor without getting shocked? I have repaired monitors before but always get a little paranoid whenever I am fine tuning them while they are on. Is there an affordable oscilloscope?

thoughts...

LCD monitors don't have the required inputs that a gameboard generates.

In a test situation, all monitors _MUST_ be powered with an isolation transformer of the correct voltage.

99.9% of the time you won't need an oscilloscope.

 

[DogP]

Actually, the PSone LCDs sync to CGA... that's what I've got for my test bench. It works pretty well, you just need to hack a cable onto it instead of using the PSone connector.

For monitor testing, I just use a crappy old JAMMA board, or one with a test pattern in it's test mode if I'm trying to fine tune a monitor and not just find out whether it works.

DogP