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Author Topic: What are the pins on Ultimarcs A-Pac for?  (Read 1737 times)

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What are the pins on Ultimarcs A-Pac for?
« on: February 01, 2018, 09:02:59 pm »
there are 9 pins near the end of the board that i can't find any documentation on... ???

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Re: What are the pins on Ultimarcs A-Pac for?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2018, 02:08:14 am »
I always thought it was for the Console adapter.

https://www.ultimarc.com/console.html

The site says the A-Pac and I-pac boards are universal and the I-pac info states the following.

The I-PAC2 has 32 inputs. They are all programmable and are marked as 2 joysticks, 8 buttons each, plus coin1, coin2, start1, start2 and Mame control keys. Any inputs can be assigned as a shift key to access an alternate code set. This board also has a connector which can be configured to plug our trackball and spinner into, or for our console interfaces.

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Re: What are the pins on Ultimarcs A-Pac for?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2018, 02:20:16 am »
But also this is on the site for the iPAC-4

Note the 9-pin header on the I-PAC 4 is for factory use only.

So maybe its nothing...

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Re: What are the pins on Ultimarcs A-Pac for?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2018, 02:23:34 am »
On the A-PAC these pins are only used by us to load firmware to the board and test.

5V and GND can be sourced from these if required though.

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Re: What are the pins on Ultimarcs A-Pac for?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2018, 07:53:19 am »
On the A-PAC these pins are only used by us to load firmware to the board and test.

5V and GND can be sourced from these if required though.

That's exactly what i was hoping for!!! Could you please diagram or describe which pins to use?  Would it be enough to power 4 or 5 regular LEDs  ~5V or less each?

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Re: What are the pins on Ultimarcs A-Pac for?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2018, 09:24:29 am »


This would power 5 LEDs without a problem.

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Re: What are the pins on Ultimarcs A-Pac for?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2018, 09:44:32 am »
This would power 5 LEDs without a problem.

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Re: What are the pins on Ultimarcs A-Pac for?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2018, 12:08:43 pm »

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