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External 5V power supply needed... not computer PS
mrtuesday42:
awesome. i know what that thing in the bottom of my arcade is for. ive just had it hooked up for the monitor...wow. good luck with the twisted quarter thing. let us know how that works out for you. someone before me wired my power all crazy and i havent had a chance to sort it out, but nice to know that i can use it for leds n such.
mgb:
Hey,
goodluck with that power supply.
--- Quote from: mrtuesday42 on September 15, 2010, 12:46:00 pm ---awesome. i know what that thing in the bottom of my arcade is for. ive just had it hooked up for the monitor...wow. good luck with the twisted quarter thing. let us know how that works out for you. someone before me wired my power all crazy and i havent had a chance to sort it out, but nice to know that i can use it for leds n such.
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The thing you describe in the bottom of your cabinet sounds like your isolation transformer for your monitor. depending on the game, there may be other taps off of it that would feed all the various voltages to a linear power supply.
mrtuesday42:
one is definitely for the monitor its kind of squat. the other one looks just like the thing in the picture lol. since i have taken the board out i may see if what i can run from the black box.
markronz:
I have a question regarding this power supply as well. The one from Twisted Quarter that is.
For my system, I will have 20 of the 5v LED Lamps from Ultimarc
http://www.ultimarc.com/ultralux.html
Then I will have one 12v LED Marquee Light bar from GGG
http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=83&products_id=307
Then lastly, I have one cold cathode light kit from here
http://www.koolertek.com/computer-parts/pc/Logisys-15-Sound-Activated-Cold-Cathode-Kit-Red-212p1167.htm
That's all I need powered. I, like the OP, currently have this all running on an extra PC power supply. I'd like to change this to an arcade power supply, like the one from twisted quarter.
http://www.twistedquarter.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=4
Now, like someone said before, typical LED's are in the 20-30 mA range.
Then my LED light bar is powered by 12v
And my cold cathode light kit says it is 12v, with an input current of 700mA
So I have three real questions.
1.) Is the twisted quarter power supply powerful enough to run all my lights I've mentioned? I think that it would be, based on the numbers I've been looking at, but I just want to confirm...
2.) How does the power supply work exactly? The picture is pretty small on their site, but from what I can tell, it looks like there are just different screws on the front, used for the different voltages. So I assume it's just as simple as wiring up both the wires from the cold cathode and the LED light bar to the 12v, and then all my LED's to the 5v line? Is that correct?
3.) Lastly, about the ground wire. My LED's are run through my LED-Wiz, but the LED marquee bar, and the cold cathode are not connected to the LED-Wiz at all. So I'm looking at three separate ground wires. Could I just have one ground wire connected to the LED-Wiz, one going to the marquee light, and one to the cold cathode, and then just wire all three ground wires to the Ground connection on the power source? I'm obviously not an electrical genius here, so I wasn't sure how that worked, and if ground was ground, and they could all be run together.
Thanks!
releasedtruth:
I believe the PS provides 12V at 3amp and 5v at 15amp so there's plenty of led power where you need it. Looks like you have plenty of amperage to run the lights you need with this power supply.
It's just terminal posts for each voltage setting and 2 common posts so wire up to a single spade connector from terminal post or multiwrap. I'm a little sloppy so mine won't be the exemplar.
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