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Brad Lee:
^^ I thought a ground was a ground.

Obviously the +5v from the ipac wont light 12v lamps(it might but it'll be very dim). For that you would need to either hack one of the power supply connecters or an independent 12v source(for example a transformer for a cell phone charger, pc speakers, something liek that- CHECK the voltage)

screaming:

--- Quote from: Peale on February 04, 2004, 12:34:42 pm ---Run it from your power supply.

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  Yeah, that's what I thought. There has to be a complete connection for the electricity to run in a loop, right?  If the ground was plugged into the IPAC with the power coming from your PC's PSU, then you wouldn't have that complete circuit.

  Right? :)

/Steve

Edit: fixed formatting.

Stingray:
It just needs to be grounded, it doesn't matter if the ground is in the same location as the power source. As Brad Lee said, a ground is a ground.

-S

screaming:

--- Quote from: Stingray on February 04, 2004, 12:58:29 pm ---It just needs to be grounded, it doesn't matter if the ground is in the same location as the power source. As Brad Lee said, a ground is a ground.

--- End quote ---

  So when I had all my 'normally open' leads from my microswitches connected to the IPAC, but all the grounds wired up someplace other than the IPAC and it didn't work.. That was just a fluke and it should have worked?

/S

eightbit:

--- Quote from: Stingray on February 04, 2004, 12:58:29 pm ---It just needs to be grounded, it doesn't matter if the ground is in the same location as the power source. As Brad Lee said, a ground is a ground.

--- End quote ---
I don't think it will work but regardless it is best practice to get the ground from the same source as the power.

So if you getting power from the ipac to light your bulbs get the ground from there, if your using your PC power supply then get the ground from there. Your origanel wiring may have grounded the bulbs to the coin door which might have used a common ground for the lights and the coin mechs which isn't how you want it hooked up anymore.

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