Can power supplies be cheaply replaced? Newbie question...
Hi,
I bought a Vindicators game recently, when I got it home and fired it up it didn't work (worked awesome before the drive home... Doh!), the monitor was coming on but no sounds/game on the screen. It didn't come with keys, so I had to drill out the lock in the back, once I got it open I could see the PCB wasn't lighting up at all at any of the LEDs on it, and I also saw there was a small power supply that had been added that was not lighting up either which feeds the PCB. The monitor is on a different (original-looking) power supply and it is giving me some lights/lines/scrambles, so for now that seems to be ok. I suspect the little add-on power supply, which wasn't even mounted, got rattled around in transit and is dead. I haven't yet taken a multimeter to it to confirm AC is getting into it, but looking at the terminals, all wires seem to be accounted for, so I don't think it's a loose wire or something like this.
Are these power supplies similar to modern PC power supplies? Otherwise are they readily available for "generic" arcade applications, or are they more proprietary to the specific game? The little broken one seems to have 5v and 12v out, that seems fairly common to me, but don't know if there is something special I need to be concerned about in this case, and I certainly don't want to experiment on the game and damage the board...
Any advice as to replacing this supply cheaply and reliably would be greatly appreciated! Vendors/models, things to not do, etc...
Regards,
Ryan
Hi,
I bought a Vindicators game recently, when I got it home and fired it up it didn't work (worked awesome before the drive home... Doh!), the monitor was coming on but no sounds/game on the screen. It didn't come with keys, so I had to drill out the lock in the back, once I got it open I could see the PCB wasn't lighting up at all at any of the LEDs on it, and I also saw there was a small power supply that had been added that was not lighting up either which feeds the PCB. The monitor is on a different (original-looking) power supply and it is giving me some lights/lines/scrambles, so for now that seems to be ok. I suspect the little add-on power supply, which wasn't even mounted, got rattled around in transit and is dead. I haven't yet taken a multimeter to it to confirm AC is getting into it, but looking at the terminals, all wires seem to be accounted for, so I don't think it's a loose wire or something like this.
Are these power supplies similar to modern PC power supplies? Otherwise are they readily available for "generic" arcade applications, or are they more proprietary to the specific game? The little broken one seems to have 5v and 12v out, that seems fairly common to me, but don't know if there is something special I need to be concerned about in this case, and I certainly don't want to experiment on the game and damage the board...
Any advice as to replacing this supply cheaply and reliably would be greatly appreciated! Vendors/models, things to not do, etc...
Regards,
Ryan

