Viola!!
Photo snapped with a quarter laid on it for size referencing. Necessity is the mother of all invention.
I find myself making some side cash these days helping ppl out with their arcades machines. I really need a test bench to be portable and flexible. I don't want to lug around with all kinds of crazy stuff. I also don't want to spend too much on a test bench.
I find a great many unsalvageable arcade cabs. Often, the monitor ISO transformer, switching PSU, line filter, fuse box, JAMMA harness are fastened down on a 12"x15" wood plate. I just remove the plate and it makes for a perfect portable starter test bench with all the wiring. But now I need to to navigate to the test menu because the same test bench I use to calibrate my monitors (CPS2's test patterns are my go to for calibrating colors). No point wasting one of my arcade sticks for that. I had even thought, maybe using a spare cut corner CP' I have laying around. But no point wasting that either. Plus it isn't very portable.
So for about $7, about a 2 week wait for the switches to arrive from China, and a short trip to Home Depot to pick up an electrical junction box later, I think I have what I need. Whatch guys think?
Photo snapped with a quarter laid on it for size referencing. Necessity is the mother of all invention.
I find myself making some side cash these days helping ppl out with their arcades machines. I really need a test bench to be portable and flexible. I don't want to lug around with all kinds of crazy stuff. I also don't want to spend too much on a test bench.
I find a great many unsalvageable arcade cabs. Often, the monitor ISO transformer, switching PSU, line filter, fuse box, JAMMA harness are fastened down on a 12"x15" wood plate. I just remove the plate and it makes for a perfect portable starter test bench with all the wiring. But now I need to to navigate to the test menu because the same test bench I use to calibrate my monitors (CPS2's test patterns are my go to for calibrating colors). No point wasting one of my arcade sticks for that. I had even thought, maybe using a spare cut corner CP' I have laying around. But no point wasting that either. Plus it isn't very portable.
So for about $7, about a 2 week wait for the switches to arrive from China, and a short trip to Home Depot to pick up an electrical junction box later, I think I have what I need. Whatch guys think?