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SirPeale:

Heh...okay.

AND FIX THAT 404!!!!!!11

JLR2000:


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--- Quote from: JLR2000 on December 18, 2004, 05:44:38 pm ---Ok, I tried to hack a powersupply to the JAKKS pacman game.  It's output is 300ma and I have it set to 6volt output. 

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I'm guessing that you used one of those selectable voltage power adaptors.  It's very important that you measure the voltage, with ANY adaptor.  I've had ones that were supposed to be ~6V that were reading ten or HIGHER. So I finally found a 5V one that was putting out just about that much (actually about 5.1V IIRC) which works fine. 

Remember that it's designed to have a slight voltage drop as the batteries start to wear, so 5V is acceptable.  I wouldn't go much below that, of you'll exhibit graphics glitches.

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Now you tell me!   ::) ;)  I think that's what blew out the LED in the first place.  I would recommend anyone hacking the power supply of one of these units to start LOW and add voltage as necessary....don't make the mistake I made and start out with 6 thinking you're fine.  I believe 5 would be enough, I think even 3 was working, but below that the graphics got funky.  Seriously, thanks for the info Peale, you confirmed what I suspected.

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