Mame cab build.

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hpglow
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First before I post up some progress... Can anyone tell me what kind of connector these are?
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They go to stuff like monitors and PC power supplies. I have two of them running into my cab and would like to reduce it to one.
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IEC
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CunningFellow wrote:IEC
Thank you. It was driving me nuts not knowing what to search for.
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Things are moving along. I wired P1 but I ran out of crimp on wire terminals for P2 so it will have to wait. Still need to buy some trim to cover mistakes, and a couple pieces of acrylic to cover the monitor and hide the bezel. The software needs a lot of work to get it looking like one piece of software.
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It's aliiivvveee! Almost there..congrats! 8-)
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After some configuration hell this week I got back on track with the build. Here are some shots of the foam-core mat I cut, and another decal I added to the cab.
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Moving along today with another test of the cold cathodes. I cut some more acrylic for the front but I'm planning on frosting parts of it to make the cathodes a tad less harsh. Particularly the green. I have 2 green and 2 yellow in the cab and the green are between 2 to 3x brighter. I placed the cab on a box so I could see the lights I put in to back light the underside of the cab.
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hpglow
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Doing a little more finish work today. Covered up some mistakes with aluminum stock and temporarily screwed on the front plexi.
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Nice cab! I envy you soooo much right now :) Have fun with it, lucky gamer! :mrgreen:
I know i'm too young, but it doesn't matters. Maybe i'm a newbie, but i can learn very fastly
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greenpower wrote:Nice cab! I envy you soooo much right now :) Have fun with it, lucky gamer! :mrgreen:
Thanks. I hope to get some more work done then tape a video of this thing in action soon. I still don't have speakers installed and some trim. I think I've done ok for someone building this out of mostly stuff laying around. I could have made must nicer but I would have had to spend money.
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