I did a spit take.
FS Egret 2/Windy 2/NNC/Q25 (Repair refund)
- Thread starter XeD
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For Sale
seriously though you should keep all that someone might need extras.
ChuChu Flamingo
Enthusiast
That was for a NOS one iirc. Anyone paying that much for a used yellowed one is an idiot. Vast majority of them have yellowing simply due to the fluorescent lighting behind them cooking them.
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Auspiciously low.
If put out some conservative projections out there and say, this cab got X many coins per day, breaks out to this:
- 100 coins/day = 17 days on site
- 50 coins/day = 35 days on site
- 10 coins/day = 174 days on site.
Here are some pics:
No burn to speak of!
Looks good from here.
And here.
Here too.
Not so much here though. I'll live.
Pane shot!
Ok, now for the
Notice how the chassis looks NOS, but there is some dirt on the VGA connector? Weird. Yaton is known to swap out stuff out of his cabs to get max equity on his stuff. And there are plenty of Toshiba chassis on his eBay page.
None of this mattered though once I turned on the monitor and degaussed it.
Wow! I was floored by the image. @300wins and I have been messaging about picking up his remote board for the Toshiba PF. But I didn't get such a chassis. I can't imagine how much better this tube would look if it had a Toshiba PF chassis. 300wins tells me the Toshiba beats the Sanwa in that it handles sync better if used with different boards. I believe him. But as of right now, it would take a compelling reason for me to invest another $200 into getting the Toshiba PF chassis and the remote board. Hopefully, I can investigate with 300wins if a chassis swap will work on this tube. He and I are both in San Jose. So if it doesn't get that far, at least I can see what a Toshiba PF chassis looks like in action.
I haven't yet seen this at 15khz. I have to sort through the rats nest and figure out wiring first. But man, if 15khz looks anything like 31khz............man, fuck the Egret II. I should have picked up two NNC's.
The rat's nest was just tossed in there. Wasn't wired to anything. But taking it out was akin to Alexander the Great's challenge of the Gordian Knot! I didn't want to rip something out that I shouldn't have so it took me 20 minutes plus this is my first experience with a JVS cab.
So anyone in this buy that has never experienced this cab before, just look for the yellow, white, brown cables, and VGA cables that come off the sound amp. Free those out and the nest comes right out. Looks like the nest has some JVS-to-JAMMA stuff. I totally dunno if that is standard with a NNC and it will be a while before I can figure out the wiring. But it was all loose and pulled out after some sorting.
.........@jugu is actually a good dude.
The NNC in 15khz blows all my other cabinets out of the water in every aspect. Sega Astro, blast, American cabinet w/ WG monitor, they just can't even compare to the NNC. The only problem with the NNC is it's awkward looking body style.
XeD
Grand Master
Looking good @acblunden2. of my NNC I think my lowest is the the 30s or 60s and my highest is in the 3k. I don't really understand that rat nest because it took them like 3 days to convert them back to 110V..... I guess they took long coffee breaks haha
I have a Toshiba chassis. I’ve never seen a Sanwa pfx in person, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about their picture quality. I strongly believe if you were to put the two monitors side by side though, the difference would be minimal
BanishingFlatsAC
Champion
Yeah, the $800 one was NOS. I said that in a follow up post.
PascalP
Legendary
Same here, love the Toshi PF in 15K, even next to a MS9
I think you are right. Can't imagine how much better this can look. 300wins tells me the difference is the Sanwa is temperamental at 15khz with different sync standards from various boards. He says both have excellent image quality. He has both.
300wins is a really cool kat too. Helped me a ton in the past few days answering my questions.
Man, when they told you NOS originally, I think they meant the NNC's. The barn-yard find, the diamond in the rough, the overlooked masterpiece that was won at minimum bid in the auction within this group buy was the NNC's. If you were one of the 9 that got one of the NNC's, you lucked out. 1,700 coins in mine. Your highest in the 3,000 range. These can't get any newer. Someone should buy all the rest of Yaton's NNC's.
Blah, I think most of it was the 220v step-down AC wiring. I think those things can be tossed out. I'll figure out the JVS-to-JAMMA stuff eventually. But the value in it for me isn't high since I got a 15khz Egret II out of all of this.
I'll go to my buddy's business on Thursday to test out the E2 and Windy II and get you guys the low down then.
I'm waiting for rewrite to wake up and mess with our cabs.
BanishingFlatsAC
Champion
Hedonism Bot 2.0
Grand Master
I've got both and the tosh is better. In VGA they are pretty close but 15k, the tosh is much better. I recently swapped the PFX in my e3 with a Toshiba PF. I will say that monitor adjustments are much easier on a PFX, although the pfx is very picky about sync.
The PFX is not a trash monitor, it is amazing (although it is the heaviest monitor I've lifted)- but the toshiba is better.
Ya he is. He helped me on some questions. Wish I knew him when I lived in San Jose.
TetrisAndTacos
Beginner
All the US bound cabinets are accounted for and bought? If so I guess I gotta wait for the next group buy.
Me too. I want to hear about that Q25.
Some may still pass for their own reasons. You might be able to get one from this group buy.
TetrisAndTacos
Beginner
K. Thanks. I need to read through the past messages to get caught up to speed. Not 100% sure how it all works. Aren’t all the cabinets paid for in advance? So how/why would they pass?