Strange PVM behaviour in Supergun setup

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Richtr8
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Strange PVM behaviour in Supergun setup

Post by Richtr8 »

Hello everyone,
I've been lurking here & other forums for a little while now, & over the past 3 months I've been reading up on building my own Supergun to play a few JAMMA boards on my PVM-D20L5A.

I've wired it to an ATX PSU with no issues, & I've had some custom controller housing built by a friend who does perspex screening & I've wired all that all up to a D-SUB 15 connector again with no trouble, but I'm having trouble with getting it to output video.

I won't bother detailing the setup, as I have most of it explained in a video I've uploaded here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7kgMX1zFWk

The SCART socket is wired as follows:

Red w/ 150ohm resistor - 15
Green w/ 150ohm resistor - 19
Blue w/ 150ohm resistor - 20
+5v w/ 100ohm resistor - 16
+12v - 11
Sync w/ 150ohm resistor - 9
Grounds - 18, 17, 13, 8

Here's a picture of the mess:
http://puu.sh/6Lxje/eec213dc74.JPG

Another thing to note would be that I have had the sync hooked up to both pin 9 & 10 with the same results.

Anyway, that's what's going on with the Supergun at the moment. I look forward to your replies & thank you very much for reading.

EDIT: So I've cracked open the SCART end of my Dreamcast cable & verified that it is indeed EuroSCART running through that cable, which works 100% fine on the PVM. I'm gonna try rewiring it to EuroSCART again & seeing if it works.

EDIT: Wiring it back to EuroSCART gives me no picture or signal at all.

EDIT: I put some 220uf caps on the R, G & B lines. Still no signal.
gray117
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Re: Strange PVM behaviour in Supergun setup

Post by gray117 »

Er ... By most countings:

http://www.geocities.ws/podernixie/htpc/jamma2euro.gif

R> 15
G> 11
B> 7
S> 20

You may find variable resistors better if you need to change levels, or if your setup proves picky.
Richtr8
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Re: Strange PVM behaviour in Supergun setup

Post by Richtr8 »

Yep, that'd be the EuroSCART standard that it was wired to originally, before I switched it over to JP21 SCART. It still gives me no signal at all. Here's a picture of the current wiring in case I'm insane: http://puu.sh/6MGaj/f8cbc18af3.JPG

As you can see red, green & blue are each wired to their corresponding pins.

EDIT: OK, problem solved. The cable was wired for JP21, I cracked it open & rewired it to EuroSCART, & now everything is golden.
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