MKtrill
Member
hi all, i am new to this forum, and i have had the worst luck with monitors lately, it all started when i purchased my first arcade game A dedicated mortal kombat 2, i had it for 1 day working...... then the monitor went out the next..... for 2 months now Ive been searching high and low to find a replacement. Ive heard about p&l, 8liners, makvision, etc..... there HAS to be a way that i can find a monitor for less that 3 - 4 hundred dollars.... its a k7000 chassis, its got burnt diodes needs a flyback, yadda yadda.... the tube is in awful condition... screen burn, the whole works.... i have a buddy who has a couple possibilities for sale and lives relatively close to me, for example, a phillips 25 inch, with a recently repaired k7000 chassis, including flyback, diodes, the works..... before purchasing it, we hooked it up to an xmen, and the screen needed adjusting, once adjusted, i suggested we hook it to something closer to what it would getting hooked into, so we moved it to a mortal kombat 3 cabinet. instantly the fuses in the power supply blew on the cab.... once fixed the board had once again blown a couple diodes...... so it was a no go, at least for right now..... so we moved to another monitor, an rca 25 inch, with a makvision chassis... now to make an mk work, i would need an adapter for my..... whatever number of pins cable coming from my pcb.... i think a 9 or so..... it needed to be converted to a 5 pin. so we did that... we used a converter. when we plugged it up to the mk.. the sync was completely out of whack.... couldn't make the screen stop moving in a scrambled fashion. so we gave up... this is a chassis, that is tan in color, it has a pot adjuster board that must have 8 - 10 adjustment potentiometers on it, it has 2 x spots for the 4 cable 4 female red, yellow, green, blue connector to plug into. i dont know the name of it, but it is attached to the tube itself. my question FINALLY is this chassis seemed to work fine on a cabinet that was putting out 50 - 60 volts. my mk2 cab puts out atleast 110 - 120 volts... if i were to hook this up to mine.. what are the chances it would smoke up? what is my next step? is it really worth repairing an 18 year old k7000 chassis? am i destined to have to purchase a $339 before shipping makvision 24.8 inch..... if so, would that work on my mk 2 cabinet? would there be additional adjustments that must be made?
i am honestly open to ANY suggestions at this point..... all i want for christmas is for my Damn arcade to work...... as im sure im not alone with that wish this year..
Any help, advice, responses, tips, would be totally appreciated.
thank you
i am honestly open to ANY suggestions at this point..... all i want for christmas is for my Damn arcade to work...... as im sure im not alone with that wish this year..
Any help, advice, responses, tips, would be totally appreciated.
thank you
