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bigster:

thanks for your help.  Pulled a +12v and a ground from the power supply.  Worked Great.  Now I just have to solder some wire on to make it long enough

mvsfan:

everythings already been said this question was answered good. but one suggestion when you pull power from a pc power supply, dont cut and splice it. get some of those disk drive power connector y splitters and splice into those.

That way the first time and on down the line that you have to replace the power supply, its still just a plug in deal, theirs no wires to splice, youve already done it with the disk drive splitters. pull the old one out, plug the new one in.



mvsfan:

i made this mistake with a jamma setup i did once.

i didnt have an arcade power supply sitting around that was large enough to power a neo geo 6 slot board, but i did have two atx 400w power supplys sitting on the shelf, so i rewired one to work with jamma, instead of doing the right thing and adding an ATX connector to the jamma harness.

then all id have to do on a power supply replacement was cut two wires (green and black) and add a toggle switch between them to turn the ps on without a pc, and id be done.

the second time around when the first ps died, i did just that i added an ATX connector from digikey to the jamma harness.



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