Hi All
Sure am glad to have found this site, been browsing it all morning, kudos to the many knowledgable posters here.
First...to introduce myself. I'm a vid noob but have tinkered with pins for years and the vids I have (Outrun in a Xevious cab and a Mr. Do cocktail) have not given me much trouble beyond a steering rebuild in Outrun.
Well things have changed. Besides having had to learn EM's and rebuilding
every board in a Stern "Pinball SS" and still fighting 6 digit displays: looks like I now have to take the plunge into monitors.
I've aquired 2 similar Poker games in countertop cabs. both 13" monitors.
1. Game-A-Tron
Poker, craps, blackjack, acey duecy. Monitor good-board freezes up during play but game resumes after reboot. Logic Error message sometimes.
Only marking on HV board is "PM 1718"
2. Merit Ind.
Similar game , draw poker, slots, horse racing and something else. Board boots up and will play blind. Monitor only shows grey with horz lines.
Neck heat seems very low , just barely glowing. Gets lots of juice to the anode (evident by the discharge) HV board saya "JETCO". Looks like some kinda Kortek from bobroberts ID page.
So. I put the GAT monitor in the Merit game and the best I can get are garbled horz. images which I assume to be sync probs. But I'm a noob remember and only guessing. Is it possible that I've mixed low and medium res here ?
The Merit looks like seperate H and V inputs wherethe GAT runs only an H
input tho the board header has 6 pins. I've tried every possible hookup -
running both H and V seperately, V off, and V tied to the H pin. The best image I an get is seperate inputs with the yoke plug in the opposite header that ran the GAT.
I am quite confused but ready to take any advice that you guys can throw my way as I am commited to making the Merit game work.
All comments appreciated.
Ben