Area 51 cabinet

[rcc8756]

I'm supposed to be buying a Area 51 cabinet for 200 bucks, I thought it is a great deal, seller said the monitor sometimes comes on and plays fine but sometimes it doesnt, but can hear the game playing. Any suggestions?
Also this being a step up to jamma from my first cabinet a pc-10 what games would interchange? Would other light guns work such as house of the dead?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Brian Deuel]

The monitor issue would rely on a number of things. Does the tube power up at all? Can you hear the flyback powering up the tube? Or does it only do it sometimes? If it powers up everytime but you get no video, check your sync and RGB cables going to the monitor chassis to make sure that they're making good contact. Other issues could include cold solder joints on the monitor chassis, a shorted or loose deflection transistor, bad caps, flaky power connector to the monitor (sometimes the molex connector powering the monitor can have loose pins), or an exposed wire somewhere (some of the insulation may have come off one of the sync or RGB wires, perhaps shorting it). Be sure you know what you're doing regarding working around monitors, as you can get bit pretty hard by them.

As far as any Naomi games running in that cab, IIRC, Naomi uses an additional connector other than the standard JAMMA pinout, but I may be wrong. Check www.sega-naomi.com for a pinout. Not sure if the guns would work for HOTD, but they should.

[rcc8756]

What options as in games would be compatible?

[rcc8756]

Found out later it was a conversion from a pit fighter cabinet. Was 200 bucks worth it?

[rcc8756]

started troubleshooting its a warner-gardner 25k7171, I dont see the filament lit, does that mean its not getting high voltage?

[DogP]

WG K7000's are typically pretty easy to fix. If you don't have neck glow, you probably don't have HV (do you hear the tube charge up when you turn it on, like you do when you turn a TV on)? Did you check the fuse, and is it blown?

DogP

[rcc8756]

I adjusted the HV cut off pot switch, someone had put glue on it I guess to keep it from moving,I got the glue off & adjusted & it started working but has a slight jump in the bottom of the screen though, but what would be a permanent fix, is this normal to have to adjust that pot?