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- Jun 29, 2005
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I just wanted to share a few thoughts about the supergun I just finished a few days ago. Basically its uglier then hell, but works great. The first supergun I had was a vhs case style gun built by supergoose quite a while ago that I bought off ebay. I used a vhs case as my enclosure for my new supergun project, but I didn't have an rgb encoder. I only had a sony PVM-2950 monitor that had rgb inputs on the back. So after buying a jamma harness and all the basic parts from a local electronics shop, I started on my journey. After several hours of soldering, cutting plastic and praying that it would work, I fired it up. To my surprise it worked the first time. I was getting mixed results though with the boards I tried on my monitor. For the power supply, I used an ATX power supply that I got for free from my work. I wired the "power on" line and ground to a switch and it worked great. But I finally came to the conclusion that I needed to get an rgb encoder. So my newly built supergun sat for a few months until I had the extra money for the encoder.
(Fast Forward 2 months)
I ran across the jrok group buy thread in the tech forum. So I bought one of the new encoder boards for $72.50. After receiving it and the component RCA connectors, I built an rgb encoder box using an old lunch box I had around my house as the enclosure. I also threw in a audio line leveler so i could hook up the audio to my tv and stereo without blowing out my speakers. So as i said before, everything works great but looks like shit.
The moral of the story (a.k.a what I learned the hard way): Know what you want ahead of time and have all the parts BEFORE you start so it will actually look decent and you won't have to wait for months before you have a decent supergun.
(Fast Forward 2 months)
I ran across the jrok group buy thread in the tech forum. So I bought one of the new encoder boards for $72.50. After receiving it and the component RCA connectors, I built an rgb encoder box using an old lunch box I had around my house as the enclosure. I also threw in a audio line leveler so i could hook up the audio to my tv and stereo without blowing out my speakers. So as i said before, everything works great but looks like shit.
The moral of the story (a.k.a what I learned the hard way): Know what you want ahead of time and have all the parts BEFORE you start so it will actually look decent and you won't have to wait for months before you have a decent supergun.
