Pac-man Power pcb same for all pac-man games?

Super Pac uses a typical (90421) midway power supply. Pac-man and Ms Pac-man are older and work totally different -- neither uses a dedicated power supply board, both take AC voltage straight off the transformer to the gameboard.

If you're asking "can I install a Pac or Ms Pac board into my Super Pac cabinet" than that's a much different question.
 
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If you really wanted to you could hook up a super pac power supply to run a pac. You would be much better off to just install a switcher.
If the cab is an original pac and the transformer is still in it I would stay with the original setup. Just be sure to install new fuse holders and check the edge connector.
 
Ms.Pac is 100% identical to pac, only some program, graphics and color roms are changed either directly on board or via a daughter card connected in place of the CPU.

Pac/Ms.Pac expect 7VAC and 12VAC directly at the edge connector. They have a VERY rudimentary power conversion with a voltage regulator, 2 rectifing diodes, a resistor and 2 capacitors.

SuperPac expects 5VDC and 12VDC at the pin connector. It has a more advanced, but still linear power board this time made separate and not on board.

You can safely feed DC power into the Pacman's AC connectors though you should remove/jumper over various parts of the on board power supply if you do that, and it will work

Alternatively do NOT feed AC power directly to the super pac board as it expects DC it would be damaged by the alternating current (and higher voltage) besides not simply working.

Either case, they're not meant to be directly swappable and you'd be best off converting both via a Jamma adaptor and tossing in a jamma wired cabinet for ease. Otherwise build a Pac-to-Super pac adaptor to let you plug your pac board into a super pac cab.

I suppose you could do some type of adaptor to get the voltages off the super pac before it went into the power board and adapt that to drive the pac directly to.
 
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There may not be a lot of them out there but there is a Midway built adapter. It was for use in Jr. Pac converted Super Pac cabinets. Since Pac/Ms. Pac is the same pinout, you can use it that way as well.

As for using a switcher in a Pac/Ms. Pac cabinet you don't really need to mod the PCB. However, you do need to crank the switcher up about half a volt. My Ms. Pac has been running fine that way for 9 years or so.
 
...see above post.
If you really wanted to you could hook up a super pac power supply to run a pac. You would be much better off to just install a switcher.
If the cab is an original pac and the transformer is still in it I would stay with the original setup. Just be sure to install new fuse holders and check the edge connector.

What I want to do is put the pac-man pcb in a original super pac-man cab. Now that they are clearly completely different setups, looks like my best option is to get the pac harness for use with a switcher from Bob robers.

thanks for the clarification guys
 
What I want to do is put the pac-man pcb in a original super pac-man cab. Now that they are clearly completely different setups, looks like my best option is to get the pac harness for use with a switcher from Bob robers.

thanks for the clarification guys

You can do that if you want but obviously, it means rewiring the cabinet and installing a switcher. An adapter (whether bought or home made) would make switching back way easier if you ever wanted to.
 
There may not be a lot of them out there but there is a Midway built adapter. It was for use in Jr. Pac converted Super Pac cabinets. Since Pac/Ms. Pac is the same pinout, you can use it that way as well.

I had one of these not that long ago, but I'm not sure if I still do...
 
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