New member with Hotd2 lot

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:56 am

Hi everyone,

I'm 33 years old and been some years into arcade collecting. As I'm now a proud owner of a NUC (which I instantly chopped) I thought I'd register to this great forum

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The Cabinet works fine with a Naomi 2 mobo, never had any problems, all the voltages are correct and I can regulate the +5V and the 3,3V.

Now I recently purchased a Hotd2 lot (game, mobo, gun board, sensors + type 2 guns). This is my test-setup:

The game works, also the test + service buttons on the mobo are working - but the guns don't react and the trigger won't work. It seems the gun mark is always stuck in the upper left corner. In the gun mark checking I get this:

Is there anything I can do to find out what's wrong?

Thanks for your help!

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:27 pm

Faulty gunboard perhaps?

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:54 pm

Hi,

I'm not sure. If I connect the x and y-axes-pins via ground on the 9-pin-connector of the gun board (labeled with "out") the gun mark starts moving.

Is there a way to verify that the gun board is definitely faulty? Maybe it's "just" the guns or the sensor bar? I'm willing to invest a lot of money to get it working, but I want to make sure first that I only replace the faulty parts

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OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:17 pm

Can you see the IR sensors light up?

You should be able to see two faint red lights from each IR sensor

Bob Presutti

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:23 pm

Yes look at the gun sensors using your mobile phone camera, as you look through at each sensor you should see the infra red light

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:20 pm

Ah, I made some progress

! It seems I missunderstood the functioning of the i/o-board. I thought it provides 12 V via the cn2-connector but thats just the INPUT (!), besides of it is the OUTPUT via cbn 1! Now I've connected the 12 V input and also the 12 V output for the gun board. The x/y-axes are now working

! Jeez, that saved my week!

Will now try to build a quick setup to fix the LED-bars in more accurate way around the screen and then try to calibrate the guns

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Thanks for your help so far, guys. I will keep on posting.

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:26 pm

SkiDog wrote:Can you see the IR sensors light up?

You should be able to see two faint red lights from each IR sensor

You can get a better view through a digital/mobile phone camera.

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:41 pm

With a now powered gun board I can see the LEDs without help

, everything seems to be in order. Gun 1 is working almost cool, gun 2 is still a little off the screen and needs finetuning.

2nd test setup: I built a little extra bezel to calibrate the guns:

Next step will be drilling holes in the original NUC bezel and screw the sensor bar in.

PS: Yeehah! I just killed my first zombie!

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 9:07 pm

BTW, Nice chop job on the NUC

Bob Presutti

OldFoo · Post by **OldFoo** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:18 am

I believe I got two gun bezels left.. Already have the wholes drilled out..

Suitable for Sanwa 31ES and other curved monitors.