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Taito Egret 3

Successor to the Egret II, the Egret 3 is a JAMMA candy cab with a flat 29″ tri-sync (15/24/31 kHz) monitor by Wei-Ya. Still rotatable (TATE/YOKO), but without a motorised mechanism: you turn the tube by hand. Its shell later became the base of the Sammy Atomiswave SD.

Identification

Field Value
Manufacturer Taito
Year 2003 — the Taito flyer carries © TAITO CORP. 2003, print run 2003.8 (Arcade Otaku lists 2002)
Type Candy cab
Screen flat 29″ CRT tri-sync 15/24/31 kHz (Toshiba tube, Wei-Ya 3129D chassis)
Controls 2 players, interchangeable panel (1L6B / 2L12B…)
PCB format JAMMA + half-JVS

⚡ Connector & power

Aspect Value
PCB connector JAMMA (56-pin edge) + half-JVS
Monitor sync tri-sync 15/24/31 kHz (flat 29″ CRT, Wei-Ya 3129D chassis), rotatable without mechanism
Power Taito JVS brick (3.3 V / 5 V / 12 V), AC 100 V (50/60 Hz)
Consumption 100 W (rated) — 1.4 A max
Max PCB 550 × 392 × 12 mm (largest board that fits)
Dimensions 750 × 903 × 1450 mm (W×D×H, cabinet only)
Dimensions incl. panel 750 × 903 × 1764 mm
Weight ~110 kg (総重量 約110kg)

Figures established from a Taito document

The Taito sales flyer — © TAITO CORP. 2003, archived here — carries an unambiguous ■仕様 block:

  • 外形寸法（パネル付き, with panel): 750 (W) × 1,764 (H) × 903 (D) mm
  • 外形寸法（本体のみ, cabinet only): 750 (W) × 1,450 (H) × 903 (D) mm
  • 総重量: 約110 kg · 電源: AC100V (50/60Hz)
  • 消費電力: 100 W (rated) · 最大電流値: 1.4 A

Taito spells out (W), (H) and (D): 750 wide, 903 deep. The order published on this page is therefore confirmed by the manufacturer — and Arcade Otaku's infobox, which reads "903 x 750 x 1450" without declaring the order, does indeed put depth first.

Three corrections this document brings

  • It is not "1765 with marquee", it is 1,764 mm including the panel. One millimetre, and above all the wrong part: Taito counts the instruction panel (パネル付き), not the illuminated marquee.
  • Arcade Otaku's "dimension drawing" is not a manufacturer document: it is an Adobe Photoshop 7.0 composite dated 2008-04-19, 598 × 431 px, covering Egret II, Egret 3 and Atomiswave SD together — and it states 1470 tall, a figure no Taito document supports. The flyer's 1450 stands.
  • The consumption no longer comes from Arcade Otaku but from the flyer, which adds the maximum current (1.4 A) nobody was publishing.

⚠️ The resemblance to the Egret II (750 × 903 × 1764 in its manual, folio 12) was therefore not a confusion: the two machines genuinely share the same overall height. It is the shell family that is common, not a copied figure.

Community dimension composite: front view marked 750, side view marked 903 and 1470, control panel height 650

The composite that served as reference before the flyer. It does give 750 from the front and 903 from the side — but 1470 tall against Taito's 1450, and it merges three cabinets. Kept for the one figure nothing else gives: the 650 mm control-panel height.

(Sources: the 2003 Taito sales flyer, archived here, for the dimensions, weight, voltage, consumption and maximum current. Arcade Otaku for the screen, wiring and maximum board size.)

→ Detailed wiring: JAMMA (+ half-JVS) → JAMMA wiring, JVS wiring, JVS I/O boards and Control panels.

Technical notes

  • Flat tri-sync monitor: accepts 15/24 kHz (classic PCBs) and 31 kHz (Naomi, VGA, HD superguns). Unlike the Egret II, rotation is manual (no motorised mechanism): you pivot the tube to go TATE (vertical).
  • Dedicated Taito JVS PSU (3.3 / 5 / 12 V) — often shipped with the Taito JVS-AMP I/O board (built-in amplifier).
  • Interchangeable panel: the bay takes 1L6B (1 player, 6 buttons) and 2L12B (2 players) panels; the housing is compatible with Egret II panels and — with adaptation — Sega Astro/Blast/Naomi panels.
  • JIS screws.

Shared shell: the Atomiswave SD

Sammy reused the Egret 3 shell under licence for its dedicated Atomiswave SD cabinet (2003) — identical dimensions (750 × 903 × 1450 mm), Wei-Ya monitor and Wei-Ya PSU. 2L12B Egret 3 panels drop straight in.

Common faults

Symptom Likely cause Lead
Unstable image / geometry Wei-Ya 3129D chassis, recap Adjust + recap (see archived schematic)
Stiff / crooked rotation manual rotation frame Check/grease the frame, realign the bezel
No power Taito JVS brick Check 3.3 / 5 / 12 V at the JAMMA/JVS edge
JAMMA contacts oxidation Clean the edge connector

Procedure — a cabinet that will not start ✅

There is a CRT in this cabinet

The tube stays charged with the cabinet unplugged, and the anode cap is the first thing your hand meets behind the monitor. Discharge it, work with one hand, and never alone if you can help it. → CRT safety

This cabinet is documented as 100 V

It does not go straight onto a European socket. It needs a step-down transformer rated for the whole cabinet, monitor included — not a travel adapter. Feeding 230 V to a cabinet built for 100 V destroys the supply, and usually the monitor with it. → Cabinet power

What this adds

Ordered for a cabinet, not for a board: mains, low-voltage supply, loom, monitor, then the game. The overwhelming majority of "dead cabinets" are dead for a reason that has nothing to do with the PCB — which is why the board comes last here.

1. Mains, and what sits between it and the cabinet. The switch, the fuse or breaker, the isolation transformer if there is one. A cabinet that shows no sign of life at all is almost never electronic.

2. The low-voltage supply — measured under load. Aim for +5 V where power reaches the board — the JAMMA edge, or the JVS power connector, depending on the cabinet — with the game running, not on an idle bench. If the supply has an adjustment (most candy and JVS bricks do; the ATX brick in a PC cabinet does not), do it then and not before: set off-load, it leaves a board that boots and then glitches. With no adjustment the measurement still earns its keep — it tells you whether the supply holds. Check +12 V too, and −5 V if the board uses it: many do not, and an ATX brick does not provide it. → Cabinet power

3. The loom and the connector. Reseat, and check the grounds — a cabinet with a poor ground gives rolling picture, phantom inputs and noise, all at once, and none of it looks like a wiring fault. Connector on this cabinet: JAMMA + half-JVS. → Wiring

4. The monitor. This page describes the monitor as: flat 29″ CRT tri-sync 15/24/31 kHz (Toshiba tube, Wei-Ya 3129D chassis). CRT: no picture but the tube is warm and there is EHT — that is sync or video, not the tube. No EHT at all — chassis. A picture that shrinks, wanders or shifts colour is a chassis recap, and on these monitors that is a scheduled job, not a repair.

5. Scan rate — the mismatch that breaks nothing. If the board's rate is not one the monitor accepts, you get no picture and nothing is faulty. Check what this cabinet takes against what the board puts out before opening anything. → Modernising a cabinet

6. The control panel. Microswitches and the loom, in that order. A single dead direction is a switch; a whole player dead is the loom or its ground. → Control panels

7. Coin mech and sound. Last, because they hide nothing: a mech that no longer registers is usually dirty or misadjusted, and silence with a good picture points at the amplifier and its supply rails.

Repair

Documents (archived)

(Source: Arcade Otaku Wiki, archived locally for preservation.)

Photos / assets

(To add: Egret 3, flat Wei-Ya monitor, 1L6B / 2L12B panels.)

Repair & maintenance

Modernise (video, PSU, JVS, upscaler, PC/FPGA) → Modernising a cabinet. LCD screen + board base: PSU → Recap · diagnosis → PCB fault-finding.

Sources & attribution

  • Taito — EGRET 3 sales flyer, © TAITO CORP. 2003 (print run 2003.8), ■仕様 block — archived here (front · back) — dimensions with panel and cabinet only, weight, voltage, consumption, maximum current, screen. Found via The Arcade Flyer Archive
  • Taito — イーグレット3 取扱説明書, ref. G2002302A, 13-page extract archived here — folio 9, parts catalogue (folios 64-83) and wiring diagram. Does not contain the 仕様 table
  • Arcade Otaku Wiki — Taito Egret 3 (29″ tri-sync Toshiba, Wei-Ya 3129D chassis, JAMMA/half-JVS, max PCB 550×392×12 mm) — ⚠️ their infobox reads "903 x 750 x 1450", depth first and undeclared, and states "1765 including Marquee" where Taito writes 1,764 mm including the panel — https://wiki.arcadeotaku.com/w/Taito_Egret_3
  • egret-cotes-communautaire.jpg — dimension composite hosted by Arcade Otaku (E2e3awsdmeasurements.jpg), Adobe Photoshop 7.0, 2008-04-19, 598 × 431 px — ⚠️ a community document, not a manufacturer one; kept for the control-panel height (650 mm) alone, and contradicted by Taito on the height (1470 vs 1450)
  • Arcade Otaku Wiki — Sammy Atomiswave SD (licensed Egret 3 shell, identical dimensions) — https://wiki.arcadeotaku.com/w/Sammy_Atomiswave_SD
  • Internal pages: Taito Egret II · Atomiswave SD

Review & corrections

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