nes-101 schematics? anyone?

[draginit]

im having a hard time finding schematics for the top loader nintendo,, does anyone in here have a file they can share or a website they know of?

-im just trying to wire the reset switch and power switch externding it to another area away from the pcb board and need to know which points to solder the wires to.  thanks

[ChadTower]

You should be able to tell that easily by opening one up and looking at what the current switches are wired onto.

[draginit]

thats what i did when i was using a front loader but it became unstable..i thought it would be that easy with the top loader but with the reset switch has 7 or so solder points, i should only need two wires to the relocated switch but from which points? and the power has four solder points but yes easier to figure out,,, i was hoping that a scematic  would just pretty much spell it out for me.  the idea here is im trying to run them to a microswitch elsewhere on a cab. dont spose you could look at the photos and tell me which ones they are maybe??

-edit- ok so i figured out the pwr switch, pretty easy, but the reset is still unsure..

[ChadTower]

Pull the reset switch.  Look at what the wires coming from the switch are currently connected to.  That is how you reverse engineer a switch.

[draginit]

yea thats cool, i guess i was thinking i could just leave everything on..but that makes too much sense..sometimes i try to overthink things,, thanks for the help...

[Howard_Casto]

Well i'm not a rocket scientist or anything, but the reset switch is pretty striaght-forward looking.  There are 4 points, but there are only two leads coming away from them.  Hook one wire to any pin on the left and another to any on the right and you are golden. (Switches don't have polarity normally)
 
Sorry looked at the power pic. 

The reset should also be fairly straight forward if you look closely at the pins.  Any pins that connect to the same lead are essentially the same and can be considered one pin.  Somewhere in that mess you'll have a pin that connects to a different lead, that's your other pin.  You just need to study it closely.  (Oh there might be "mounting pins" in that mess but if you trip between ground and a mounting pin nothing bad is going to happen.)


It looks to me that your right-most pin in the part you circled is the power, with the other pins being ground.  You could try tripping it and see if it powers up.  Your dealing with too low voltage/amperage to really damage anything uless you really hold it on there a while.

[AlanS17]

Just bridge a wire from point to point with the cover off until you find the two that work. Then you have your points.