which one is the "hot" wire to the monitor?

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which one is the "hot" wire to the monitor?

k4600 I am staring in the back of the game at the back of the monitor and looking at the chassis.

I just finished rewiring the entire cab, but now I want to know which side of the monitor wire is the hot?

There is a white strip down the left wire and nothing down the right. Is the white the white and the black the black(hot)?

Also, what is the molex # and size for the monitor connector if anyone knows?
 
k4600 I am staring in the back of the game at the back of the monitor and looking at the chassis.

I just finished rewiring the entire cab, but now I want to know which side of the monitor wire is the hot?

There is a white strip down the left wire and nothing down the right. Is the white the white and the black the black(hot)?

Also, what is the molex # and size for the monitor connector if anyone knows?

It's AC... they're both pretty much the same. Doesn't matter how you wire it up as long as it's either white to white, white to black, black to black, black to white... basically just not ANYTHING to green (if you have the third wire going to the monitor)... If it's just two wires... you can match them up anyway that floats your boat and you'll be fine. Polarity only really matters in DC. (for arcade stuffs.)

For molex connectors... I just replace both ends to save the headache. They're about $1.99 or so at Radio Shack IIRC... just get both sides and replace them both. That will make that monitor only plug and play in that cabinet (IME)... unless you change all your other cabinets over, but still easier for me to just do it like that.
 
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Also - we're talking about ISOLATED AC here. There really isn't a HOT. Your AC comes straight off the output of the isolation transformer.

-Ian
 
Interesting, both my k4600s had the AMP ".250 centerline Universal MATE-N-LOK" connectors. I didn't realize this wasn't the standard.

Some Midway cabinets used the Amp power connector for monitor. I remember Gorf using that on the monitor. If a Wells-Gardner monitor model number ends in "6" then it was in a Midway game and had an AMP brand connector on the power cord.
 
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