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Title: ms pacman harness
Post by: Servo on January 10, 2014, 09:59:18 am
Hey guys i was hoping someone could help me out, im wiring a ms pacman board to a switcher power supply. ive noticed that there's 7 pin outs for +5volt, do i just piggy back all of them on the one +5volt terminal

thanks

servo


Title: Re: ms pacman harness
Post by: John's Arcade on January 10, 2014, 11:09:16 am
Hey guys i was hoping someone could help me out, im wiring a ms pacman board to a switcher power supply. ive noticed that there's 7 pin outs for +5volt, do i just piggy back all of them on the one +5volt terminal

thanks

servo

Here's a nice tutorial:

http://www.therealbobroberts.net/pacpower.html

It's not as clean or straight forward since the Pac-Man board has a power supply built into it.


Title: Re: ms pacman harness
Post by: Servo on January 10, 2014, 12:54:43 pm
john, if i use the switcher to power ms pac do i still need the fuse blocks.


Title: Re: ms pacman harness
Post by: John's Arcade on January 10, 2014, 12:59:36 pm
john, if i use the switcher to power ms pac do i still need the fuse blocks.

Some of the fuses are for the AC power going to the board. So, I guess you don't need those fuses anymore. The fuses for the monitor and cabinet lights you'd still need.

I've never installed a switcher in a Pac, so follow Bob Robert's tutorial.


Title: Re: ms pacman harness
Post by: Servo on January 10, 2014, 01:08:12 pm
well i dont have a cabinet, im using a monitor that doesn't need an isolation transformer, i picked up the board for 20 bucks, not working but its missing an eprom which might be an issue. i want to get it working, so i bought a harness from bob. im pretty much just setting up a test station with it right now. Thanks.

servo