darthphunk
Active member
Hey guys.
I have a Dynamo cabinet I picked up for free. I was told the monitor worked fine. It was completely gutted with no art, so I decided to make it a Mame cabinet.
So I did some poking around and found this on Bob Roberts site:
http://www.therealbobroberts.net/buildit.html
I've followed this ALMOST exactly. The three differences are, I am not using an AC power switch (using a power strip for now), I am not using a switching power supply since I will have a PC in there to run games, and I am using 16ga wire instead of 18ga wire.
In fact, my setup is much closer to this... even the same cabinet and monitor...
http://codechunks.com/mame/
So I have a power cord connected to the AC line filter (with a 3amp fuse before the filter on the black wire), from the filter to a power distribution block, from the block to the Isolation Transformer and to the marquee lights (no light installed at the moment)
When I throw the power... the 3amp fuse blows. I also tried a 5amp fuse with no luck.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Should I not be using 16ga wire? Could my isolation transformer be bad? The AC line filter? The monitor? Where should I start looking?
Any help would be really really appreciated.
Thanks!
I have a Dynamo cabinet I picked up for free. I was told the monitor worked fine. It was completely gutted with no art, so I decided to make it a Mame cabinet.
So I did some poking around and found this on Bob Roberts site:
http://www.therealbobroberts.net/buildit.html
I've followed this ALMOST exactly. The three differences are, I am not using an AC power switch (using a power strip for now), I am not using a switching power supply since I will have a PC in there to run games, and I am using 16ga wire instead of 18ga wire.
In fact, my setup is much closer to this... even the same cabinet and monitor...
http://codechunks.com/mame/
So I have a power cord connected to the AC line filter (with a 3amp fuse before the filter on the black wire), from the filter to a power distribution block, from the block to the Isolation Transformer and to the marquee lights (no light installed at the moment)
When I throw the power... the 3amp fuse blows. I also tried a 5amp fuse with no luck.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Should I not be using 16ga wire? Could my isolation transformer be bad? The AC line filter? The monitor? Where should I start looking?
Any help would be really really appreciated.
Thanks!
