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Well that makes sense... although Im not sure why they did that??? can I put
the colour monitor in the mini ?? Can you convert B&W to Colour somehow??
are the boardsets the same??? I guess they cant be eh???
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AF
"VaxX" <geoff_gunn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The cocktail is a colour monitor, the mini is a b/w. The pcb from the
> cocktail will have a comp out on it.
>
>
> "Arcadeforever" <ve3zxr@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > Hi,
> >
> > > > anyone have one and know what the -12V does??, I cant find where
the
> > wire
> > > > in the wiring harness goes to...its not where it shows on the edge
> > > > connector.. all the edge connector are original but its just not
> > there...
> > > > following the wiring schematic it looks like the -12 goes to a lamp,
> can
> > > > someone confirm or deny this insanity??
> > > >
> > >
> > > grab the manual of one of the sites
> >
> >
> > Yeah I have the manual, I am looking at the schematic in there but it
> looks
> > like the -12v goes to a lamp in the same harness as the coin switch...
> > really bizzare, maybe its just my eyes....
> >
> >
> > > > also the monitor comes up and goes to a solid glow then shuts down
> after
> > > > about 10 seconds, sounds like the flyback???
> > > If there is no arcing near the flyback, I would suspect dry caps.
> > >
> > yeah, no arcing it just shuts down nicely , I will replace the caps on
> this
> > strange monitor...
> >
> > Let me describe what I have and maybe someone can suggest a better
course
> of
> > action...
> >
> > I have a Taito SI cocktail and the Taito SI Mini, I wish they had used
the
> > same monitor because the cocktail has no logic or wiring but the
original
> > monitor is still in it... and the mini has a bad monitor, the Mini seems
> to
> > have some Japanese monitor and the cocktail seems to have a different
> > Japanese monitor It was nice of Taito NOT to put the monitor schematics
IN
> > the SI manual..
> >
> > Although they both have different strange monitors (not WG or
Electrohome)
> > other oddities include the video connector which is different from the
> mini
> > to the cocktail. It seems the cocktail has a molex plug that holds the
> RGBHV
> > and monitor power. looking at the mini there are 4 wires going on to the
> > chassis that look like all signal as they are thin but I could be wrong
I
> > suppose, the manual shows 2 of the 4 wires coming from an ISOxformer and
1
> > going to "video sig" on the CPU board and the last one going to
ground...
> I
> > guess the mini black and white and the cocktail color???? looking at the
> > manual schematics I dont see any wires labelled RGB in the mini....can I
> > somehow use a color monitor in the mini???
> > --
> >
> > thanks,
> > AF
> >
> > "VaxX" <geoff_gunn@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >
>
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> > .au...
> > >
> > > > anyone have one and know what the -12V does??, I cant find where
the
> > wire
> > > > in the wiring harness goes to...its not where it shows on the edge
> > > > connector.. all the edge connector are original but its just not
> > there...
> > > > following the wiring schematic it looks like the -12 goes to a lamp,
> can
> > > > someone confirm or deny this insanity??
> > > >
> > >
> > > grab the manual of one of the sites.
> > >
> > >
> > > > also the monitor comes up and goes to a solid glow then shuts down
> after
> > > > about 10 seconds, sounds like the flyback???
> > > If there is no arcing near the flyback, I would suspect dry caps.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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