newbie but oldie new monitor centipede cocktail

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hey guys im new to the sight but have been collecting arcades for a long time.i have about 30 now and i have been wanting to get my centipede cocktail working and just purchased a brand new wells gardner rs 13 k7200a clr montior because a repair shop took my old 1 and went out of buisness never got it back anywayz this monitor doesnt have any plugs instructions and wanted to know if this is the moinitor i need any things i need to know about how to mount it how to wire it up maybe adjust it, wanst to bad at 114.00 shiped just dont want to screw it up lol ,, any advice apreciated
 
What game are you connecting it to? Power is pretty easy to connect, although you may need to adapt the connector. The video plugs in like normal monitors, but don't connect the vertical sync if using composite negative sync...
 
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its a centipede cocktail i havent figured out how to put a pic up yet and a new wg k7200 monitor am i supposed to cut the plugs off the monitor and match the wires i dont want to blow this up the game plays blind and missing the whole montior it really doesnt even look like its gonna fit but i wanted to know how to wire it up anyhow i know these things have some serious voltage thanks also how do i know the difference between vertical sync and negetive sync in this game and i believe the game rotates on monitor for player one and two is that automatic.
 
hey guys im new to the sight but have been collecting arcades for a long time.i have about 30 now and i have been wanting to get my centipede cocktail working and just purchased a brand new wells gardner rs 13 k7200a clr montior because a repair shop took my old 1 and went out of buisness never got it back anywayz this monitor doesnt have any plugs instructions and wanted to know if this is the moinitor i need any things i need to know about how to mount it how to wire it up maybe adjust it, wanst to bad at 114.00 shiped just dont want to screw it up lol ,, any advice apreciated

Welcome to the forum. Please direct your attention to your keyboard. On the left, we have the Shift key. By holding it down while pressing one of the lettered keys, you can type an uppercase letter. Coming up on your right, we have another Shift key, it operates the same as the first. Also, the period key is quite popular - it can be used to put little dots between thoughts to form them into sentences. It makes things much easier to read.

Sorry - had to give you a hard time about that... :D It's really difficult to read posts containing no discernible sentences...

But yeah, the monitor should be a drop in replacement. The power connector might be slightly different than the one that's already in the cabinet, but the video header should be the same. The video connector in Centipede will contain the Red, Green and Blue video signals, as well as ground and separate horizontal and vertical sync signals. The board itself also produces negative composite sync, but I've never seen it wired in a cabinet.

For reference, the colors of the wiring in the cabinet are, according to the manual:

Yellow/Red - Red Video
Yellow/Green - Green video
Yellow/Blue - Blue video
Green/White - Video Ground
Red/White - Vertical Sync
Violet/White - Horizontal Sync

If your power connector is different, just change it to mate with the one for the monitor already in the cabinet. I don't believe the 7200 requires an isolation transformer, but it's much cleaner to use the existing wiring in the cabinet.

-Ian
 
Your centipede video connector should connect directly to the monitor already. Your power connector may be different, and you may need to change the housing on one side to get them to mate properly.

Once connected, if you have any sync issues that can't adjust out, we'll go from there...
 
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Hey thanks for the advice. I will try and use proper grammer and puncation next time lol, I was using my phone and its hard to do from there. Well i took the monitor home and it doesnt fit there is no way to mount it in my cocktail cab wells gardner may have shipped me the wrong one and also the plugs for the game dont match up either the video signals dont plug in, So im probally gonna have to sell this monitor does anyone know were i can get a 13 in monitor that will fill in my game,Like i said the whole thing is missing let me know what u think thanks,
 
It should fit. Perhaps the mounting brackets are missing from your game. AFAIK, all 13" monitors have the same standard frame. But, inside the cocktail, there will be some plates that bolt to the monitor and attach to a frame in the cocktail to suspend it. Those are probably missing.

The video plugs are the same. Perhaps you're just getting thrown off because the header on the monitor is longer than the plug - the connector should still mate. It's a .156" Molex. Just line up the R/G/B signals with the inputs on the monitor.

The power you'll have to adapt to match the plug in the game.

Take a picture of the inside of the cocktail, so we can tell you what's missing. And if you're having problems with the connectors on the monitor, take pictures of those, and we can tell you how to hook it up.

-Ian
 
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Here are a couple took me a min to figure how to send pics, Im gonna send some more.
 

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Let me know if you need me to take anymore dying to play this game also i looked on ebay and i seen what i think your talking about,But when i put the monitor sideways it doesnt look like theres any mounting holes , Thanks,
 

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I made my own mounting brackets to install a 13 inch K7000 into my Millipede cocktail. I used 2 inch aluminum angle cut to length and then drilled for mounting holes. I used aluminum so I didn't have to worry about any magnetic interference.

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Yep, you have the wrong frame for mounting your monitor in the cab. Phetishboy's method (frame modification) will work for you if you can find a way to attach it to the existing frame. otherwise you will have to find a different frame and transfer the tube and chassis over to it...
 
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Dam i just read your post kinda screwed up my day, lol Well i seen this on ebay and was wondering if this would work for my mounting issues.I have the opurtinity to just return this k7200 monitor to where i bought it if there is a better way what do u guys think thanks.
 

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I just seen another member has these and was wondering if these will do the trick also let me know !!!!
 

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Dam i just read your post kinda screwed up my day, lol Well i seen this on ebay and was wondering if this would work for my mounting issues.I have the opurtinity to just return this k7200 monitor to where i bought it if there is a better way what do u guys think thanks.

That bracket IS for a K7000 model chassis. Not sure if it is a 13". The other ones would be better, as this one has a bottom flange which may interfere with installation...
 
neg or positive sync

Bump it up thanks for all the advice one question wells gardner sent me a different harness to make this monitor work and i have both wiring diagrams for centipede and the 13" k7200. Do i use neg or positive sync for the game Thank you. Ps. if i HOOK IT UP WRONG am i gonna blow it up.Also someone told me if there are 2 sync wires to hook them both up, And will the game flip player one and player 2 screens automaticly thanks again.
 
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The good news about monitor signal is that hooking it up wrong doesn't mess anything up.

Red, Green, Blue, Ground, Sync - Mix them up and you just get a mess up picture, nothing damaged.
 
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