tech: vga card from ultimarc

[Larry]

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anyone know how to make a breakout cable for a vga card for an arcade
monitor? i am getting the vga card from ultimarc and need to know how to
make my own cable. i know where the red, green,blue, ground and the syncs go
but on the ultimarc site it says something about the red, green,blue, and
sync ground how do they connect to the monitor? any help would be great

 

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Larry thought about it a bit, then said...
> anyone know how to make a breakout cable for a vga card for an arcade
> monitor? i am getting the vga card from ultimarc and need to know how to
> make my own cable. i know where the red, green,blue, ground and the syncs go
> but on the ultimarc site it says something about the red, green,blue, and
> sync ground how do they connect to the monitor? any help would be great

Ultimarc has a lot of good information about hooking up arcade monitors:

--
Kevin Steele
RetroBlast! Retrogaming News and Reviews
www.retroblast.com

 

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Larry thought about it a bit, then said...
> anyone know how to make a breakout cable for a vga card for an arcade
> monitor? i am getting the vga card from ultimarc and need to know how to
> make my own cable. i know where the red, green,blue, ground and the syncs go
> but on the ultimarc site it says something about the red, green,blue, and
> sync ground how do they connect to the monitor? any help would be great

Let's try that again - Ultimarc has a lot of information on hooking up
arcade monitors:

http://ultimarc.com/monfaq.html

http://ultimarc.com/avgainst.html

They also sell a VGA breakout cable for $6 that should make it a lot
easier:

http://www.ultimarc.com/JShopServer/section.php?xSec=2&xCmd=cc&xCur=1

--
Kevin Steele
RetroBlast! Retrogaming News and Reviews
www.retroblast.com

 

[Larry]

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i have all the connections but unsure of if i need to do anything with the
red,green,blue,sync grounds. i have the info from ultimarc but just not sure
if i need to worry about the color grounds
"Kevin Steele" <net-replyDEL@DELadelphia.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c76a53fc52b35e4989e09@news...
> Larry thought about it a bit, then said...
> > anyone know how to make a breakout cable for a vga card for an arcade
> > monitor? i am getting the vga card from ultimarc and need to know how to
> > make my own cable. i know where the red, green,blue, ground and the
syncs go
> > but on the ultimarc site it says something about the red, green,blue,
and
> > sync ground how do they connect to the monitor? any help would be great
>
> Let's try that again - Ultimarc has a lot of information on hooking up
> arcade monitors:
>
> http://ultimarc.com/monfaq.html
>
> http://ultimarc.com/avgainst.html
>
> They also sell a VGA breakout cable for $6 that should make it a lot
> easier:
>
> http://www.ultimarc.com/JShopServer/section.php?xSec=2&xCmd=cc&xCur=1
>
> --
> Kevin Steele
> RetroBlast! Retrogaming News and Reviews
> www.retroblast.com

 

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Larry thought about it a bit, then said...
> i have all the connections but unsure of if i need to do anything with the
> red,green,blue,sync grounds. i have the info from ultimarc but just not sure
> if i need to worry about the color grounds

I'm not sure, but it may depend on the monitor. You might want to ask
over in the BYOAC forums, as there are several there who have wired up
their own monitor cables:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php

--
Kevin Steele
RetroBlast! Retrogaming News and Reviews
www.retroblast.com

 

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:39:07 -0600, "Larry" <lmagrie2@comcast.net>
wrote:

>i have all the connections but unsure of if i need to do anything with the
>red,green,blue,sync grounds. i have the info from ultimarc but just not sure
>if i need to worry about the color grounds

on an arcade monitor you only need (3) video, (2) sync, and a (1)
ground connection. multiple ground connections are only for monitors +
tvs with terminated inputs