Used CRT's in Reno

Monitor Info

I stopped by Tuesday morning and here is the deal:

They started out with 1654 monitors (at least that is what their inventory computer said they had). 60 pallets with 18 to 25 monitors per pallet. 6 to 8 pallets were already taken by locals that wanted to try their luck scrapping the monitors for metal. Good luck with that guys.

The sizes are 13 inch 17 inch and 19 inch tubes. It appears all of the 19 inch monitors are VGA. However with an up converter board they should look better than installing an LCD screen. Some of the 13 inch units look to be old enough to be analog and are probably CGA.

All of the monitors have screen burn that I can see. Some are severe and some very light. I selected two Wells Gardner monitors at random and brought them home with me. Both fired right up with no issue. I did not have time to adapt the gaming input connector to a VGA connector. These were working system pulls for gaming machines that are being converted to LCD, so most should work without issue.

The main brands are:

Wells Gardner
Kortek
Tovus (Same brand that Happ used for Vision Pro)
Ceronix

The Wells Gardner are a odd size 18 inch tubes (18D9301A)

The problems with these units other than the resolution issues and screen burn:

The frames are gaming style. They do not have "ears" to attach to normal arcade mounting brackets. You will have to move these units to 19 inch empty frames or fabricate an adapter bracket.

The input connector is either an 15 pin or 10 pin gaming adapter that both combines signal inputs and ac power in one. Adapters or cable modifications will have to be made.

And as mentioned by me and others in this thread, VGA signal input which will require a conversion board.

I am going back in the morning and will be picking up several pallets for myself and a few other collectors that have asked me for monitors. There is a possible deadline of the end of the month before they will need the space and have to deal with the remaining monitors. Once I get some of the other brands I will update this description.

-roger-
 
I stopped by Tuesday morning and here is the deal: [big snip]

Even though I can't really pick any of these up (tried explaining this to my sister in Tahoe, and then there is storage/shipment) thanks for the information. I would have definitely picked up a few if they were open to picking through to filter for burn.
 
One more thing....

Even though I can't really pick any of these up (tried explaining this to my sister in Tahoe, and then there is storage/shipment) thanks for the information. I would have definitely picked up a few if they were open to picking through to filter for burn.

I forgot to mention one more thing. They really want to move these units by the pallet load. They do have a few monitors scattered around on the floor. Since the monitors are shrink wrapped on pallets it is very hard to gauge screen burn. To me since they are giving the monitors away for free, it is not right to try to have them go thru a lot of work pulling down pallets and then trying to high grade the monitors.
 
I stopped by Tuesday morning and here is the deal:

They started out with 1654 monitors (at least that is what their inventory computer said they had). 60 pallets with 18 to 25 monitors per pallet. 6 to 8 pallets were already taken by locals that wanted to try their luck scrapping the monitors for metal. Good luck with that guys.

The sizes are 13 inch 17 inch and 19 inch tubes. It appears all of the 19 inch monitors are VGA. However with an up converter board they should look better than installing an LCD screen. Some of the 13 inch units look to be old enough to be analog and are probably CGA.

All of the monitors have screen burn that I can see. Some are severe and some very light. I selected two Wells Gardner monitors at random and brought them home with me. Both fired right up with no issue. I did not have time to adapt the gaming input connector to a VGA connector. These were working system pulls for gaming machines that are being converted to LCD, so most should work without issue.

The main brands are:

Wells Gardner
Kortek
Tovus (Same brand that Happ used for Vision Pro)
Ceronix

The Wells Gardner are a odd size 18 inch tubes (18D9301A)

The problems with these units other than the resolution issues and screen burn:

The frames are gaming style. They do not have "ears" to attach to normal arcade mounting brackets. You will have to move these units to 19 inch empty frames or fabricate an adapter bracket.

The input connector is either an 15 pin or 10 pin gaming adapter that both combines signal inputs and ac power in one. Adapters or cable modifications will have to be made.

And as mentioned by me and others in this thread, VGA signal input which will require a conversion board.

I am going back in the morning and will be picking up several pallets for myself and a few other collectors that have asked me for monitors. There is a possible deadline of the end of the month before they will need the space and have to deal with the remaining monitors. Once I get some of the other brands I will update this description.

-roger-

I'm glad I looked in on the thread. I was going to go check at lunch today.

It is definitely better that you checked it out, because you know a lot more about these than I do.
 
I should note that Ceronix is a brand that has shielded isolation transformers ON the CRT monitor.

Some of those may be worth it to snag the isolation transformer.
 
CRT Monitor Followup

I picked up 7 pallets of monitors today. A few were for friends of mine.

3 pallets are Kortek KT-1982S with very little monitor burn. Some looked almost perfect. 1 pallet of Ceronix 2093 that every tube looked perfect even in direct sun. And another pallet of Tovis with light to severe burn. I also picked up a pallet of 13 inch Tatung monitors that had very little to no burn on most of the monitors. Another 4 pallets of monitors were picked up since I was there on Tuesday. Out of the 60 pallets around 15 have been claimed including the ones I grabbed. There is still a boatload of monitors down there.

I asked again what the time frame was for removal and it appears that if pallets are still being claimed they will probably hold off trashing the remaining monitors for as long as they can.

In addition for anyone that appears to be a metal scrapper they are going to give them the 17 inch and 18 monitors first so that the 19 inch and 13 inch monitors will be held back for arcade collectors.

I have with me one of each of the various models and will try to sync them up to a game this weekend.

-roger-
 
Sounds like this worked out Awesome for you. Glad to see this stuff getting saved. Would love to have a few for my System 2 games. :(

I asked again what the time frame was for removal and it appears that if pallets are still being claimed they will probably hold off trashing the remaining monitors for as long as they can.

In addition for anyone that appears to be a metal scrapper they are going to give them the 17 inch and 18 monitors first so that the 19 inch and 13 inch monitors will be held back for arcade collectors.

Ok, the folks running this seem to be VERY cool about the situation they are in. Making adjustments so that the least useful stuff goes to the scrappers first so that others can effectively recycle the best. Not many spend the extra time to do this stuff.
 
Would love to have a few for my System 2 games. :(


I was thinking the same thing. The early EGA (Medium Resolution) 19 inch tubes appear to be horrible. Most are washed out or a funky color. Using one of these VGA monitors with sync converted down to EGA might look incredible. I do plan on testing that as well.

Ok, the folks running this seem to be VERY cool about the situation they are in. Making adjustments so that the least useful stuff goes to the scrappers first so that others can effectively recycle the best. Not many spend the extra time to do this stuff.

It also helps that the owner of the company used to own a couple of 7/11 stores back in the late 70's and early 80's and I operated the games in his stores. It truly is a small world at times.
 
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In addition for anyone that appears to be a metal scrapper they are going to give them the 17 inch and 18 monitors first so that the 19 inch and 13 inch monitors will be held back for arcade collectors.

-roger-

Wouldn't the 18 inch monitors be good candidates for Red Tents and DK cocktails?

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Wouldn't the 18 inch monitors be good candidates for Red Tents and DK cocktails?

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No, because the red tent monitor should be called 17" in the US. It's 18" in Japan.

Japan 20" = US 19" (Sanyo 20EZ, Wells Gardner K7000 etc.)
Japan 19" = US 18" (the VGA monitors of this thread)
Japan 18" = US 17" (red tent)
 
I have been looking for a a couple nice 19" VGA monitors. If anyone that has picked up some is willing to ship to WA or will ever be in the area, I'd love to buy some.
 
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I have been looking for a a couple nice 19" VGA monitors. If anyone that has picked up some is willing to ship to WA or will ever be in the area, I'd love to buy some.

I may be making a trip to Portland soon and have some of these . Pm me if that may work for you .
 
Man I want to go get a couple of pallets but just don't have room to store them right now....
 
crt update

Any updates on getting these monitors working starcade1962?

Yes and no. I have been working with the Ceronix 2093 monitor. I had very little problem adapting the monitor to use a standard VGA connector. However these are not multi sync monitors at all. Good in that they are a simpler chassis with less components that a tri or dual sync monitor has. But you must be dead on with your VGA sync. 31.5 and 70. With my color bar test signal the picture quality was phenomenal.

At this point is where the project went off the rails. I cannot get the GBS-8200 board to sync to the two test games I tried. Stargate and System 1 Road Runner. The problem is not the Ceronix but the up-converter board itself. I really have not tried to convert CGA CRT technology to LCD VGA technology because I do not like the way the game looks on a LCD. I have converted many EGA games (Crusin, Cal Speed, etc) to LCD VGA and the output is acceptable.

The problem is not syncing the converted board to the Ceronix as the output looks the same on my bench LCD monitor and the Ceronix. The GBS-8200 board will not properly sync to the boards. I have read on the forums that this seems to be a very common problem with the GBS-8200 with older non-jamma games. Not giving up however I have a few more pressing projects will have to backburner this for a few weeks.

However I am convinced that the converter board is compatible with at least the Ceronix monitor but the sync problem that plagues the GBS-8200 board will be an issue with this setup just like a LCD conversion.

Oh and when the picture does lock in for a few seconds, the output looks like a normal CRT monitor. So these will work as 19 inch tri-rez monitors if the sync problem with the GBS-8200 board is resolved.

-roger-
 
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