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Title: Pole position display.
Post by: Flynn's will live again! on October 03, 2013, 08:33:39 pm
Hello all,


    DISCLAIMER!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERESEY AHEAD!!!!!!!! I am going to  be having to use an LCD monitor on my pole position for now!!!!!!!!!!!!


   Unfortunately, I don't know really what to do as I am new to arcade repair.  I have my video out cords, ( yellow and red, yellow and green, yellow and blue, purple and grey and green with white(? Not sure on the last one), but five out. R, b, g, horizontal sync & ground. I bought one of the cga to vga converters from paradise arcades until I can get a CRT for my cab. Is my video connected using cga? How do I get my cga to vga converter to even work. As of now, just using vga to a monitor, I can't even get my menu on the board to display. So lost and frustrated. The game works and I can hear sounds and when I use pedal it all works, just no video.....please help.

     I also found two return wires on the left bundled with the marquee light wires. It's a thicker black and white wire that goes down to the power board. I hve pictures of all if need be, I'm just posting from phone and don't see an option to upload. Thanks again all and any help is welcomed!


        -Dan


Title: Re: Pole position display.
Post by: Mr_Rampage on October 03, 2013, 09:48:09 pm
http://www.coinopspace.com/forum/topics/pole-position-monitor-issue

You might see if this solves your problem before you go doing something hearsay :P Also no I personally don't mind if you use LCD. I just thought I'd see if I could be helpful.


Title: Re: Pole position display.
Post by: Flynn's will live again! on October 04, 2013, 09:11:50 am
Aright, so the board wasn't getting the needed 5V. So I have it working fine now, now I'm trying to figure out the video from the arcade. What video format is 5 wires off the PCB? And I. Pols like someone already did the heat bypass on this unit directl through the boardand. It the exe connector. The wires end at a small connector, that has 6 openings but just uses the 5 wires. The the ground splits off the main again to another connector that has 2. So I have a 6 connector and a 2 connector? Where do they go? What are they called?


Title: Re: Pole position display.
Post by: Flynn's will live again! on October 05, 2013, 11:55:55 pm
Got it working. Now I just need to figure out what the white and black wires coming from power are? It works with them just hanging there?!?!?!?!?! I has no idea?