Anyone on klov ever buy one of these custom power units off eBay?

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Going to build my own, have all the parts and need to dedicate the time but saw these and was wondering if anyone has purchased one?

 
I have, only because I was in a hurry. Works very well, but next time I need something like it, going to build my own.
 
Is this really a needed think?

I mean I get it MCR power blocks are not falling off trees these days but seems the KLOV crowd here could come up with something better no?

And you're telling me you pay $536 and you still need to wire in 12v AC to power the sound card?

I want to see the 30 page instructions. Lol
 
Yeah that's why I ask.. thought maybe he was a klov member and that was eBay pricing and btw with shipping it's over $100 more
 
Why couldn't we just repro the metal power brick and then populate the parts? We'd need to find a iso transformer but the oil capacitor and the big AC caps are all readily available.
 

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Is this really a needed think?

I mean I get it MCR power blocks are not falling off trees these days but seems the KLOV crowd here could come up with something better no?

And you're telling me you pay $536 and you still need to wire in 12v AC to power the sound card?

I want to see the 30 page instructions. Lol
No I meet u need the transformers to build one from scrap using arcadeshop.com board
 
Holy crap. What a complete handyman-special joke this thing is. Unreal that he's actually sold some of these. To people with working games, no doubt! (from the auction: *** Item is intended to replace the power supply system in a Fully Functional Machine ***)

Only running a single conductor for each voltage, fusing switcher outputs, having an entire outlet box for a wall-wart from an alarm system or whatever he's got there when he should just screw a standard transformer onto his super-sweet mounting board system™.

It is sorta what you'll end up with if you do this yourself, but that's the point of doing this yourself: you can build this for ~$150 and probably do a better job. I personally dislike the switcher kits and only run 125VA supplies in MCR (WMS games get switchers!), and I've ripped rigs like this out of games to replace with OG even recently, but they'll work fine for the most part and you can mod the adapter board if you have hum on the audio.

We'd need to find a iso transformer but the oil capacitor and the big AC caps are all readily available.

The oil-filled cap is for the ferroresonant transformer. It's a simple circuit that self-regulates line-voltage - I think I did a post explaining it a few years ago if you search, but the short version is that it's completely unnecessary. As long as you get the correct voltages out of your transformer, you won't need the oil cap. Nothing you'll run across will need one.

The automatic line-voltage regulation is a pretty great feature of MCR games, but it's also completely pointless if you're using a switcher. You get to ditch the transformer, the oil cap and computer-grade caps when you run a switcher.
 
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That's the kind of analysis I was looking for.

If someone can come up with a simple drawing and a parts list I'll put a prototype together for testing.
Holy crap. What a complete handyman-special joke this thing is. Unreal that he's actually sold some of these. To people with working games, no doubt! (from the auction: *** Item is intended to replace the power supply system in a Fully Functional Machine ***)

Only running a single conductor for each voltage, fusing switcher outputs, having an entire outlet box for a wall-wart from an alarm system or whatever he's got there when he should just screw a standard transformer onto his super-sweet mounting board system™.

It is sorta what you'll end up with if you do this yourself, but that's the point of doing this yourself: you can build this for ~$150 and probably do a better job. I personally dislike the switcher kits and only run 125VA supplies in MCR (WMS games get switchers!), and I've ripped rigs like this out of games to replace with OG even recently, but they'll work fine for the most part and you can mod the adapter board if you have hum on the audio.



The oil-filled cap is for the ferroresonant transformer. It's a simple circuit that self-regulates line-voltage - I think I did a post explaining it a few years ago if you search, but the short version is that it's completely unnecessary. As long as you get the correct voltages out of your transformer, you won't need the oil cap. Nothing you'll run across will need one.

The automatic line-voltage regulation is a pretty great feature of MCR games, but it's also completely pointless if you're using a switcher. You get to ditch the transformer, the oil cap and computer-grade caps when you run a switcher.
 
This comes down too where people think rip out the old and put new in it will last for years, replace that old crap ( not really crap) and put in a switcher it will be better, I run all original stuff and works fine, yes here and there stuff breaks, I remember working for a game company from 83 to 90 we threw out more switcher power supplies than any of the linear power supplies, if you have original equipment just rebuild it and keep it
 
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