Super Pacman Power Supply Pinout?

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I have a Super Pacman that has the MCR type power supply and for the life of me i can;t find the pinout voltage. I have to put a switching power supply as per request.
 
I meant pertaining to this ps and these connectors. this machine has already been hacked up.

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i need to know the voltage to those connectors so i take those wires and tap into the switcher.
 
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i need to know the voltage to those connectors so i take those wires and tap into the switcher.

Those connections are from the game transformer (AC stepdown voltage) and you wouldn't tap your switcher into that. If in doubt, use your meter to measure.

You will want to tap into the AC power after it is switched on by interlocks and power switches. Most people just tap in to the Isolated AC power going to the Monitor but some don't like to.

I have a video of the MCR power brick. I am not 100% super pacs use the same brick but it looks similar.

 
it appears the voltage required by the board are strange voltages like 7 and 9. this whole cabinet is a mess.
 
it appears the voltage required by the board are strange voltages like 7 and 9. this whole cabinet is a mess.

I don't believe that is the case the game board uses normal +5, +12 and maybe -5v DC power. Super pac, mappy and the jr-pac conversion for that cabinet use a linear power supply which gets fed by the "power brick/game transformer" shown in your pic. You are likely missing that linear power supply board. Take a pic of the entire inside of the cabinet.

you can run the pcb with a switcher but the switcher must tap into the 110vac not the AC coming from the game transformer.
 
i'll snap a picture tomorrow. hopefully you can assist in getting this up and going again!
happy holidays to everyone!
 
well let it be known its a super pac cabinet with what looks to be a normal pacman boardset that has the super pacman chipset in it. it also had a lcd monitor installed at some point. what pins would i need to wire into to get the game running again?

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Definitely a Frankenstein. I am not aware of Super-Pac being able to run on a pac-man board. You may mean Pac-Plus but that would require a Ms-Pac style daughter card, so who, knows what was/is running on this. Also, pretty sure there was no molex edge connector on super-pac..<< would have to double check that.

Anyway now that we know (99%) that we are dealing with "converting a pac-man to use DC power." that is pretty common and tons of resources. Basically you need +5 and +12 volts and can either jack up the power and go directly to the edge connector, look at the +7 and +12 AC voltage and center tap locations here.
https://www.arcade-museum.com/pinouts-game/10816.html

use one of these
http://therealbobroberts.net/pacpower.html
http://www.arcadeshop.com/i/932/midway-power-supply-kit-3.htm

or modify the board to use DC power, which I have never done but probably requires manually bypassing the AC power section.

Lastly, your power brick at the bottom is likely only being used to switch AC power on and provide isolated power to the monitor. Since you are installing a LCD it likely has almost no use beyond switching on the AC power and interlocks.
 
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