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Title: Help with Arcade Power Supply (Testing volts output)
Post by: jmike on January 04, 2016, 09:18:06 pm

A while back I purchased a Min Dong Arcade Power Supply and finally decided to wire it up, but it appears to be labelled slightly different than the one I previously used.
Can someone please shed some light on which of the wires (black, green, white) go?
I opened up my MultiKong Cabaret and I had the green wire coming from the outlet plug to the "FG" power supply terminal. Want to make sure the black wire goes to the "AC 2" and the white wire goes to "AC 1".  (My old Power supply was labelled "AG/N" and "AG/L"

I included some pics, any suggestions would be appreciated.   :cheers:

Title: Re: Help with Arcade Power Supply (wiring to outlet plug)
Post by: Ken Layton on January 05, 2016, 12:19:31 am

Sounds like you got it right:

Green: FG

White: AC1

Black: AC2

Title: Re: Help with Arcade Power Supply (wiring to outlet plug)
Post by: jmike on January 05, 2016, 09:31:31 am

Thanks for the response Ken. I'll give it a go later tonight.

 :cheers:

Quote from: Ken Layton on January 05, 2016, 12:19:31 am

Sounds like you got it right:

Green: FG

White: AC1

Black: AC2

Title: Re: Help with Arcade Power Supply (wiring to outlet plug)
Post by: Malenko on January 05, 2016, 09:43:15 am

yeah in terms of electrical wiring for plugs and houses (in the US)

Green is the Field Ground/Ground

White/Grey is the neutral

and Black is the power aka "hot" aka "live"



This is completely different in PC cases and the like where black is ground, red is +5v, and yellow is +12v

Title: Re: Help with Arcade Power Supply (wiring to outlet plug)
Post by: jmike on January 05, 2016, 09:16:30 pm

Thanks for the info Malenko, I'll write it down for future reference.

 :cheers:

Title: Re: Help with Arcade Power Supply (wiring to outlet plug)
Post by: jmike on January 08, 2016, 10:35:49 am

Finally got a chance to wire this up. Took the voltmeter to it to make sure the output was correct on the Power Supply before hooking it up to one of my boards. Initial test both read 5 volts and 12v but after retesting it, there was no power going through.
I've ordered a "Pandoras Box 3 4 Blue Elf to JAMMA Adapter w/Voltmeter DLX JNX Atlas Arcade CPS2" on Ebay to help with my Pandora V3 connection so I'll wait for it to get here to do more testing.
I know these are know to be DOA (even the seller has them listed this way) but offers a return only 2 weeks after it has been received. (I purchased this months ago so I might need to order a different one).

Thanks.

Title: Re: Help with Arcade Power Supply (wiring to outlet plug)
Post by: CheffoJeffo on January 09, 2016, 12:15:01 pm

Quote from: jmike on January 08, 2016, 10:35:49 am

Finally got a chance to wire this up. Took the voltmeter to it to make sure the output was correct on the Power Supply before hooking it up to one of my boards. Initial test both read 5 volts and 12v but after retesting it, there was no power going through.

A wise man (Hi Ken -- really nice to see that you're still here posting!  :applaud:) once taught me to test under load because the PS may shut down otherwise.

Something like this would work:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51099.0 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=51099.0)

Title: Re: Help with Arcade Power Supply (wiring to outlet plug)
Post by: jmike on January 09, 2016, 08:00:21 pm

Thanks for the link CheffoJeffo very helpful.
Tested my old power supply in my Multikong with the new connector I got from Ebay, then tested my new power supply. Good news power supply is working and pumping out the proper voltage.
Thanks to everyone for the info and replies.  :cheers:
Now on to finishing the Control panel for this build.