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Hi guys,
Well after working on my cab in my spare time(which isn't very much if you have your own shop) I finished it (well almost).
I bought the cab from Ken here in the Netherlands, the monitor was pretty messed up and I replaced it with a Trisync Pentranic, which is above expectation so far, I am very pleased with the results. I haven't seen a Nanao or Toshiba so I have nothing to compare it with, but for the 400 Euro I paid incl. shipping it is very nice and brand new.
I started on rewiring it and getting rid off 110 volts completely, I built in a circuit to the front where I put in an on/off switch, this puppy is never going to be used in an arcade so why have coin slots and containers. After I removed that totally I really freed up a lot of space.
As you can see I was still hassling with cables and stuff, so I got out to get these small things that you stick to the inside and put a zip wire through, these were really the hardest to get. I coudn't find them anywhere and finally I found them at a pro technical installation company. They are really not for consumer use, the little buggers! Well after that I could make it all neat on the inside and I wanted to fit an MVS and a Naomi system so I needed the space. I also got a thin plastic board for the bottom, so I didn't need wood or anytihng, just in case the metal wouldn't get in touch with eachother.
This was the result.
As you can see in the pics there were all sorts of pushbuttons and swithces for test, mono and coin. I got rid of all of them and just mounted a power switch and a coinswitch in the front. Removing the coincontainer left a big gaping hole and I thought that this was a good place for airventilation. I went out and got a piece of perforated aluminum and molded that in place. Just for the fun of it I placed a Red neon tube to make it glow (also have a blue lying around)
As for the speakers I wanted to get rid of the horrific speakers that come with the cabs. I stated with carspeakers and stuff like that, but didn't know the Ohm issue, just didn't think about that. So I went to the Media Markt and I wanted to buy a two speaker system with a sub, it was unvelievable but Logitech had just released the smallest set in there product lineup and it was on sale too
. I paid 25 Euros and went out to see how it would fit. Well it fitted like a glove and the sound is more then enough, with a very acceptable bass system.
I also connected two cinchplugs from Jamma so I can hook up boards that don't have Stereo out on the mobo. The only thing is that I can't play Mono games with this setup, but I don't intend to do so anyway.
I also decided to have all powercables form all the devices hooked up internally to a multi outlet (I don't know how you call these things), this is very easy to hook up and unplug things whenever you want, if I want the neon off, I just unplug it! In the meantime the one on the picture has been replaced with a bigger one
The cab also didn't have light and so I got this nice tube and fitted it, also fitted like a glove and works perfect. I don't even know if there should be one inside the cab, but I thought so to aluminate the small marquees.
Those marquees were a problem, because they were too big and I just didn't get it. From looking at other Neo cabs I saw the marquees fitted perfect, but I found out that mine was made to put in pricetags. Well I just had a friend of mine make something neat and it looks pretty cool, if I say so myself.
The sidedecals were pretty worn and I also made it worse when we moved the thing up, so of course I needed two new stickers. Well with the help form this forum, somebody pointed me to the file I needed. This was an illustrator file thus being the original thing. I took it to a printingservice and had them printed. This was highest quality and I must say it looks the same, perhaps even better.
The CP was already perfect for playing almost every game so I didn't do anytihng with that, I only rewired it a bit to make the it all fit better on the inside.
After the monitor arrived I just fitted that one in without too much hassle. Igot it with a Sega frame and I just needed to cut a bit of metal off here and there and then it fitted. I have a full Naomi kit and an MVS fitted it there and it works like a charm. Need to tweak a bit though on the picture and make it look nicer on the inside, but within the net days I hope. I will also post some pis of the inside when it is totally finished.
Here are the final results for now.
Thanx to everybody that helped me out and making me finish my cab, I am really happy with it and I hope I can return the favor some day!!
Psykick
