Taito PS to ATX PS

brocksampson

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I have an taito cab with an elevator action board installed. It's the original power supply and have read they are not worth trying to repair. I know arcadeshop is selling a replacement switching power supply for these taito cabinets. I have a bunch of old computer power supplies and read a few posts about people using those as replacements. I just dropped a bunch of money on parts for another cab so my arcade budget has dried up. I was going to make an appropriate adapter so I don't hack up the elevator action harness if I want to switch to the mentioned arcadeshop supply down the road. Looks like I would just need a couple of .156 headers. Should I try and unsolder the headers from the current power supply board or just get new ones? Was planning on soldering and heat shrinking the wires directly to the header but I'm open to other suggestions.
 
A previous owner of my Zoo Keeper replaced the original power supply with a PC power supply. The cool thing is that the game was dead when he bought it back in 2001 and he documented the repair work he did, and it's still online:

http://www.alsarcade.com/zk/

He doesn't give much in the way of details, but there is a photo that shows how he handled the wiring to the new power supply.

I had stumbled across this page while reading online one night a couple of years ago. About two months later I bought a nice Zoo Keeper on eBay that shipped out of Roswell, GA. Turns out the seller had bought it from this guy Al about a year earlier. The first time I opened up the back door and looked inside I thought, 'I've seen this before.' I recognized the power supply zip-tied into place, and the markings on the ribbon cables and on the power cord block, and the battery backed RAM that had been installed to hold the game's settings and high scores. Small world.
 
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ATX power supply worked great. My Elevator Action is alive. Monitor needs some adjusting and likely a cap kit. I need to get some new connectors and a maybe a pc board to make this look a little better. Now I have an extra working boardset I bought before I started working on this cabinet under the assumption I had a bad board.
 
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