Original Single Monitor Playchoice 10 Cabinets had Wells Gardner monitors

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Original Single Monitor Playchoice 10 Cabinets had Wells Gardner monitors

I just thought i would post this information as it seems that everyone i've encountered who is in to playchoice, or nintendo cabinets, dont seem to know this.

Most people assume it came with a Sanyo or sharp monitor. However, the original dedicated single monitor playchoice cabinets that came out in 1990 had a 19'' wells gardner k7000.

I thought other people may want to know if they are trying to restore the cabinets back to factory state.

Here is the manual that shows this:
http://playchoice.riemen.net/downloads/manuals/pc10_Upright.pdf



Below is a screenshot of the manual:
Ill also upload pics of my factory cabinet that was privately owned.
 

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Interesting I'll have to look at the monitor in my PC and see whats in there.

Mine has a Sharp and it's original.

Different monitors came in different cabs. It just depends on what they had in inventory. THe Sharp and Sanyo are better. The best thingabout a Sharp is that it has it's own Degauss button on it.
 
Yup I have said K7000 from a Playchoice and it actually uses inverted video like a Sanyo, but unlike the Sanyo they do not have amplifiers built in - they had a seperate board/module for that.
 
oh weird, i have this board that came with mine that attaches to the side of the pc10 cage that inverts the video. its in a seperate cage type thing that has 2 video outs.
 
Since they kept the design to standard Nintendo in the way it uses inverted video and on board sound... I wouldn't say that a Wells is original.

J~
 
Since they kept the design to standard Nintendo in the way it uses inverted video and on board sound... I wouldn't say that a Wells is original.

J~

I'm curious why you wouldn't say that wells is an original for single monitor PC10 when thats what was included, but more importantly, thats what the manual shows installed and as replacement part...

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I imagine the single monitor kits for VS cabs came out pre 1990 (dedicated single monitor pc 10 date) thats why it still outputs inverted.

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Yeah, just checked, the kits for VS cabs came out in 1988... So they reused the same single monitor pc10 hardware.
 
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and to clarify one thing, im not trying to say, "wells are better". Im saying, "hey, just an FYI, nintendo intended the single monitor pc10 cabs to have WGk7000 monitors in them. As illustrated by the manual"
 
The Wells that was in mine was definitely original, and for those that are curious, it natively supports inverted video, no addon board. Looks just like a standard K7000 chassis except the reistors/transistors right after the input plug are different. I'm sure its just a standard K7000 with a different input circuit.
 
Maybe it's original for the US, but these things were built to general japanese spec. PC cabs were generally poorly built US versions of the Japanese cabs. I could be original but original POS when Japanese parts were not available.
 
wow i never knew that.. lol i have a pc10 dual monitor and single, and a pc10 countertop on the way.. when i opened the back of my single shure enuf its a 19in wells!!!
 
There was a Sharp xm2001 monitor in the gross pc-10 machine I picked up from a pool room that had stagnate water sitting in the pool (for over 15 years or longer). Nearly hurled when I picked that one up..black mold was everywhere.
 
interesting. must have been a supply issue, or not so much an issue, Sanyo/Sharp may have stopped making the old style monitors by that point if it was late 80s/early 90s when these were made.

is there any kind of system where you can determine when those Nintendo monitors were produced kind of like how Wells used to attach a label saying date of mfg. on theirs? (just for the hell of it)

and I don't think I'm alone... a Wells? in a Nintendo cab? just not the same. those Sanyos were beautiful. too bad the original tubes were that super light grey kind that burns so badly.
 
One other thing I discovered over the weekend is that the one I have is a thick neck tube, whereas the other K7000 19" chassis I have are all for thin-neck tubes.
 
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