Arcade day today ! (If anyone's bored, come around to help me ;) )

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So I temporarily connected everything. Interestingly the Kortek came with an American sized mains plug. I guess this one doesn't need an isolation transformer, but of course I'll let it be as it is. I snapped off the American plug and temporally wired it up to the connector in the cab.

The plug on the monitor PCB was a bit hard to find, it was completely at the front. Luckely it was labelled 120VAC, so I didn't have to hack anything to let it run on 230VAC.

Turned it on, hear the nice crackle sound and it worked right away ! (I had blindly hooked up one of the sync wires)
The brightness was way too high though, but this monitor has a set up pots on a separate board which is great IMHO because you can put that in your coin-door. After some adjusting I had a very nice picture. I made some pics, but because of the sunny weather they really don't show the picture very well. I hope to install everything permanently today and I will make some pics and video to show the result.

But man, would I love to have some more of those fresh brand new monitors.....

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@andré: if you're bored from your ms (pac-man), why not put those replacement berzerk cables in a box with a german address on top of it?

Well since we were at the storage I checked for those cables because I thought they were in my Berzerk.....but they weren't 
Don't know where I put them, they're also not in my box full of Berzerk boards 

Will search some more my friend...sorry....

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Sorry guys, no time yet for "finished" pics....

Did find the schematics of this monitor though:

http://www.casinotech.com/files/KT2001M_Schematic.pdf

[Superully]

Well since we were at the storage I checked for those cables because I thought they were in my Berzerk.....but they weren't 
Don't know where I put them, they're also not in my box full of Berzerk boards 
Will search some more my friend...sorry....

Ooops, didn't know those cables were supposed to be in storage, otherwise i wouldn't have asked you that many times if you could send them over! now go find them elsewhere dogs are good at finding stuff, perhaps you could "borrow" one from your neighbours ... "goodie, goodie, where are those berzerk cables?" 

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OK, I finished up the monitor install tonight. Connected the wiring to the new signal plug (Hantarex model) and mains plug (used a connection block for this).

Turned the machine around, power up and.........


I'm in love !!!!!!



My stupid camera gives so much "halo" around high contrast stuff when not flashing, so this looks not so good, but believe me it is CRISPY, MINTY, FRESH, BRAND-NEW-LOOKING !!!!



God, I love those pixels !!!


Very nice convergence in the corners...


Maybe this flash picture  (!!!!! note the brightness of the screen DESPITE the flash !!!!!) shows of the picture quality the best:


MAN I LOVE IT !!!! You guys just should see it for real to believe it. The picture is PER-FECT !
I was expecting some convergence or out of focus issues, but these Korteks seem to be very nice quality !

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Remember that I'm running a Ms.Pac Plus board in there now, so mazes and colors differ to the original here and there.

[Muerto]

that is great looking!!!! im glad you got one!!!!

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I'm full of regret because I remember Rob offered 3 of them initially and I was too stupid to act quickly enough to get all of them !

[Muerto]

[Superully]

that pictures RULES, michael!!! 

and of course the picture of andre's new monitor rules as well. could use a new monitor on my gauntlet: shaky and FULL of screenburn!

[Muerto]

hehe, i like it, and obviously it goes good with hi´s story 

I also like this:

[ckong]

Very nice picture ....... André. Congrats with the result, it indeed looks amazing. 

[italiandoh]

Nice picture but... Miss PACKMAN ?!? Should't it be PAC-MAN ?

Matteo

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No idea. It's a "hacked" version Miss PacMan Plus. Thus the different mazes. The mazes are the same in Miss Pac Attack but the speed is normal on this one.

This is Arcadecollection's board running in my cab for the moment. The EPROMS have been erased but not reprogrammed yet.

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Well today we did some moving of cabs !
I couldn't get the van so we went with plan B.

Here is the subject:


Nice and tight wrapped up. Before we did this we did an inspection of the inside. Everything is there. Moon, mirror, space scenery, original monitor WITH chassis ( ) power supply and of course the original board-set, which in fact looked very good.

I am glad that I could make Robin happy with it, and I'm glad I picked it up (saved it from) the operator in Limburg. The op told me that if no-one would have picked it up, it would have been scrapped....

I didn't earn a cent on the machine, but didn't loose any money either. Plus, there's a good chance that within not very much time, I'll be able to actually play it in Robin's place !

So, let's load her up in our "Plan B" (Robin's car, and a trailer that I had lent from a friend).


We decided that the weight would keep it in place during the LOOOOOONG trip we had to do. So here are our road-trip pics:

Start:


End:


 

This MUST be the shortest TRUE road-trip ever ! (Picking up stuff from a warehouse or stuff delivered to your door is NOT counting, this is a TRUE road-trip !

We put the SI in Robins' storage and I am 100% sure he is now working on it

While we had the trailer, we moved the Missile Command to Erik's storage and picked up the Berzerk to bring it to it's final destination !

Safely arrived: