Bunker Lan Guts
While fixing the cable bundle, I was forced to rip open the kickwall that the Lan displays and inputs are wired through. Here’s what’s in there, for the interested… or extremely bored.
As you can see, there are eight bundles of wires. Each is?an HD15 video cable coupled with?an active USB extension cable. This is the purple plastic thing you see connected to the beige USB A-B cable in the center. The beige cable goes to a 4-port hub. Each hub?allows ports for a standard Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical, a Saitek Eclipse Keyboard, a Logitech 350 USB Headset, and a Logitech Wingman Force 3D stick.???
You can find the?USB?Active extensions?here at Monoprice, which I very highly recommend to anyone buying large amounts of cables. I have ordered from them many times, and never had a problem.?
The Saitek Eclipse was supposed to?allow you to see the keys in the dark, but I don’t know if it really helps.??????
The eight bundles?branch off at each?terminal area, leaving three at the end. These three bundles crawl up the wall a foot or three and continue on into wire moulding.
Here is where the three at the end?come out. The chair rail on the left was manufactured by my buddy Jjam and I. The stuff on the right is Cablemate chair rail?:
The cleverly concealed wires 😉 seen from behind:
More detail of a single display from above:
Here is what the three machines on the back look like from afar:
I am thinking of?moving the three machines on the back wall to?the wall directly to the right (where the table is). This will?make?it a little easier to split the group into teams, and aslso make it harder for players to see?each others screens.
?Of course I will have to come up with?two more Lan machines. Let me know if you have any donations. :D?
