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Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: urbecrisch on January 29, 2008, 09:00:00 am ---I did not notice but supposedly the monitor had already lost power before I started removing the coin lamp anyway so it was a weird situation.
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OK!! That's interesting..... Why didn't you mention that before now... This is almost certainly a mains power loss inside the cabinet and nothing to do with the fact that you changed a coin lamp.
Again! check the fuses in the cabinet there will be more of them located elsewhere... Probably near to the back panel close to where the mains in socket is, you might also find a mains distribution bus somewhere near the back or on the rear side wall. There will be fuses associated with that as well. You may also find some in line fuses in the mains leads inside the cabinet. Meter them all and change any that are blown (remember to turn the power off and unplug while you do this or we'll be changing your name to UberCrispy).
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
sarge:
If your marquee light is working and your monitor neck is glowing, it would not be a blown fuse in the primary line. The only two things that generally will cause this fuse to blow are the marquee light or the monitor. Also the golden tee power supply that is pictured is not an ATX power supply. ITS only used ATX power supplies on their red game boards, not on their green ones. If the fuse is blown in your power supply, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to simply replace the fuse and have it work, as this fuse will usually only blow if your switching transistors, bridge rectifier, clamping diodes, and/or your AC input capacitor in the power supply is faulty. If you've unplugged the machine for a couple of minutes to allow the power supply to reset and you're receiving voltage to your power supply and nothing is coming out of your power supply, it pretty much means you need a power supply.
urbecrisch:
*UPDATE*
My friend replaced the fuse inside the power supply and ...presto! Game works again. Thanks for the help, especially to Fozzy since he tipped me off to the internal fuse.
One more question about this cab. If I was to install 12v LED lamps to replace the 5v, can I just tap into the power supply unit with a Y connector and use the 12v and ground connection to hook up the lights? That's what I did to my cab although mine is running a PC. My friend has got a dedicated CAB although there is an empty molex connecter where I can use a Y connector for powering the LED's.
Is this OK to do?
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: urbecrisch on January 31, 2008, 11:29:27 pm ---One more question about this cab. If I was to install 12v LED lamps to replace the 5v, can I just tap into the power supply unit with a Y connector and use the 12v and ground connection to hook up the lights?
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The answer to that is a probably yes....... Because the 12V LED Lamps will be drawing way less current than the 5V Incandescent lamps... However, because you're drawing the current from the 12V Bus on the power supply, instead of the 5V Bus you could overrun the rating of the of the 12V Bus. They are independent in a switch mode.
It is however unusual for your coin door lights to be anything except 12V anyway! I'm not sure why they're 5V. Check again that you don't have 12V lamps in there. 12V is the most common, with 6V and 24V being the usual alternatives.
If they are 5V or 6V then I'd suggest that you could put a little 12V wallwart supply inside the cabinet to power your new LED Lamps. That way you can be certain that you're not going to overrun that PSU.
Either that or buy 5V LED's from Randy at GGG..... They are very bright! I mounted 2 (one red one yellow, which gives a bright orange glow) on a narrow bit of strip board, with the resistor. That then plugs straight into the original lamp socket on the coin door. Works really well.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
urbecrisch:
Below is a pic of the 12v wiring I want to use for the LED bulbs. I'm not sure if the pic is clear enough but would this work?
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