Candy Cab Monitor Questions..

I'm being lazy by not searching for answers,but I'd rather get the info here. Sorry.


Does anyone know what type etc. monitors come in the Candy Cabs..

How do you adjust the picture etc on these?
I can't find that small board like the Big Red has.

I don't know what it is but it looks so clear..so high Rez..
Much clearer then my Big Reds Wells Gardner monitor and the monitor in the Big Red was put in new when I got it..
(I still have the receipt and manual for the monitor)

Is it a high/low Rez monitor in the Candy cab..?
What type do they usually come with.?


(I think)The monitor in my Candy has a AC plug that plugs into a socket in the cab..(?)

Do these monitors rotate?
If they do..how the heck do I do that..?

I was playing Last Blade 2 and Neo Turf Masters tonight on the candy and said,"damn it looks so damn nice"even my wife said the same..

I may need to bring up the brightness on my Big Red's monitor.
(Maybe I've been looking at my Big Reds cabs monitor too long,and playing the games with the settings too dark.

I don't know what it is..
Why does the Candy cabs monitor look so damn sweeet!!!
It just amazes me how damn nice the games look..

I am not a tech guy, and really have no place being in a tech support thread without asking a question, but:

I was talking to Trieu about cabs and he recommended I give up looking for a Big Red and go for a Candy because the picture quality of the Candy monitors is much higher.

Not a tech answer, and probably not even very helpful -- just to let you know it's probably not your imagination or a localized occurrence.

Hey there,

I do believe that the monitor is low/medium rez monitor, there is a switch inside the cab to change the rez. To adjust the picture, you need to open up the control panel and you will see a set of adjustment knobs. I'm not sure if you can rotate the monitor, but I think I read somewhere in here that it can be done. It is easier with two people I think.
I agree, the Candy cabs are very sweet looking. I like that it is a sit down cab. In fact, it is the perfect height for kids to play . I hope this helps a bit. Laters...

Roating the monitor in a candy cab is easy (if you're a bodybuilder).

Remove four bolts, pull the monitor out about 9 inches by the handles, rotate and drop back in.

Easy.

Just take a day or two off work with your new bad back.

JaffaMused said:

Roating the monitor in a candy cab is easy (if you're a bodybuilder).

Remove four bolts, pull the monitor out about 9 inches by the handles, rotate and drop back in.

Easy.

Just take a day or two off work with your new bad back.

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Yea,my Back was a bit messed up after bringing the Tekken in,..then I did it in with the Candy..

What really did it in was when I kept moving all of them by myself to different locations in the living room..

The Candy sat in my Kitchen for a few hours and looked pretty cool in there...
But the look in my wife's eyes said"move it"

Handles huh,,
I have to check that out..cool..
Thanks..

SeaWolf69 said:

Hey there,

I do believe that the monitor is low/medium rez monitor, there is a switch inside the cab to change the rez. To adjust the picture, you need to open up the control panel and you will see a set of adjustment knobs. I'm not sure if you can rotate the monitor, but I think I read somewhere in here that it can be done. It is easier with two people I think.
I agree, the Candy cabs are very sweet looking. I like that it is a sit down cab. In fact, it is the perfect height for kids to play . I hope this helps a bit. Laters...

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I hope this helps a bit

Oh yes..everthing helps..I appreciate it..Thank you..

You can adjust the monitor in the red cabinet pretty easily. Take a normal JAMMA game with a good RGB level image, and raise the color drive pots on the CRT Neck PCB until the levels are matched, and fill the entire area they should. Using a combination of the RGB drive, bias, flyback screen adjust, and brightness/contrast you can make it look really nice.

I usually start by putting the RGB Bias pots all the way to the left(lowest setting) and leave the RGB drive on half way and go from there. It takes some experimentation to get a feel for what helps most, but it's not hard, and you can really make stuff look great.

Today I took a crappy looking(mostly red/blue) 12 year old Steel Talons monitor and made it look brand new, with very bright whites, and rich colors with about 30 minutes of adjustments.

You don't want to adjust the medium res adjustment unless you hook up a medium res PCB(Sega Model 1,2,3, or Midway Seattle/Vegas PCB's set to med res). If you run a standard res game on a med res monitor you get some screwy looking stuff(barely playable).

Reznor007 said:

You can adjust the monitor in the red cabinet pretty easily. Take a normal JAMMA game with a good RGB level image, and raise the color drive pots on the CRT Neck PCB until the levels are matched, and fill the entire area they should. Using a combination of the RGB drive, bias, flyback screen adjust, and brightness/contrast you can make it look really nice.

I usually start by putting the RGB Bias pots all the way to the left(lowest setting) and leave the RGB drive on half way and go from there. It takes some experimentation to get a feel for what helps most, but it's not hard, and you can really make stuff look great.

Today I took a crappy looking(mostly red/blue) 12 year old Steel Talons monitor and made it look brand new, with very bright whites, and rich colors with about 30 minutes of adjustments.

You don't want to adjust the medium res adjustment unless you hook up a medium res PCB(Sega Model 1,2,3, or Midway Seattle/Vegas PCB's set to med res). If you run a standard res game on a med res monitor you get some screwy looking stuff(barely playable).

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Wow!..Reznor007
You really know your stuff..

Thank you so much..


(no lie..I'm scared to death to go near the back of the monitors)

I used to get nervous about working on monitors, but now I'm comfortable with it. Just don't touch anything except for the adjustment pots and the 2 adjustments on the flyback transformer(focus on top, screen on bottom). Since you will be making these adjustments while the monitor is on, you should be even more careful that when messing with it while it's off.

The focus is the last thing you adjust, since it won't affect color or anything else. The screen controls the overall brightness of the screen(different adjustment from the brightness pot). You want to set it somewhat high...but not high enough where you can see the diagonal retrace lines on the screen.

By RGB level image I'm referring to a 3 color bar pattern, with each of the 3 colors separated, going from full signal, all the way down to barely visible. Many games with this patern also have a white bar to help you balance the colors.

Reznor007 said:

I used to get nervous about working on monitors, but now I'm comfortable with it. Just don't touch anything except for the adjustment pots and the 2 adjustments on the flyback transformer(focus on top, screen on bottom). Since you will be making these adjustments while the monitor is on, you should be even more careful that when messing with it while it's off.

The focus is the last thing you adjust, since it won't affect color or anything else. The screen controls the overall brightness of the screen(different adjustment from the brightness pot). You want to set it somewhat high...but not high enough where you can see the diagonal retrace lines on the screen.

By RGB level image I'm referring to a 3 color bar pattern, with each of the 3 colors separated, going from full signal, all the way down to barely visible. Many games with this patern also have a white bar to help you balance the colors.

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Sweet..
When I do mess with this I'm going to PM you..