What? Happ power supplies no longer available?? WTH???

[Hydreigon]

Most modern arcade PSUs I seen stick to Fuhjyyu brand capacitors (imo not a good sign though results may vary). Older ones use PCE brand capacitors.

As for adjustment pots, Happs/LT-200Ws rarely go bad and I myself never had to replace one. Others that use use normal potentiometers go bad after ~10-15 years resulting in fluctuating resistance (cue the Peter Chous that shut down as a safety measure from sudden adjustment pot changes). One Peter Chou I just fixed had that same problem.

 

[terrorinstinct]

I was wondering what was going on with this. Why Happ would sit on their hands instead of exploiting the many takesy-backsies periods over the last year to get as many container-loads of product out as possible is beyond me. Maybe they just want to normalize the higher price and pin it on tariffs. I've been rehabbing old Peter Chous off and on for months at work because of the backorder situation, and now moving on to the less awful clones and even the hated Blees with the recycled caps.

 

[Yoeddy]

I just bought 2 Happs from Arcade Adventures…not sure why I did that.

Jason

 

[jawhn]

I just bought 2 Happs from Arcade Adventures…not sure why I did that.

Jason

FOMO

 

[jukeboxhero]

Late to the party but is there an update on the suzo happ 200w supplies ? Only thing I can seem to find are a few ebay listings and sites that have jacked the price of a 45 dollar supply to 85 or more.

 

[chips4sle]

Wait to see what they are going to be with the tariffs. I bought them before the jump and I have to charge based on what they are telling us the power supplies will cost when they get them back in stock

 

[SheepyChris]

Wait to see what they are going to be with the tariffs. I bought them before the jump and I have to charge based on what they are telling us the power supplies will cost when they get them back in stock

They're not going to be back with tariffs, them going out of stock is a direct response to that

 

[Brick Top]

Good. I don't like seeing people trash linear supplies to slap this disposable garbage in there. Rebuild the old stuff.

 

[conrad]

Good. I don't like seeing people trash linear supplies to slap this disposable garbage in there. Rebuild the old stuff.

 

[terrorinstinct]

Good. I don't like seeing people trash linear supplies to slap this disposable garbage in there. Rebuild the old stuff.

Cool, just send me your credit card info first so you can pick up my location's electric bill. Maybe set aside some money for when a regulator inevitably blows and kills an irreplaceable PCB through overvoltage where a switcher would typically go into shutdown.

 

[Alpha-tron]

Just thinking out loud.

If one could collect all those dead powersupplies cheap enough.
One could setup a workbench with a tech to rebuild all those dead power supplies. If you able to collect let's say 1000 of them, the cost per repaired power supply would drop enough where people would buy repaired power supplies instead of new ones.

 

[DogP]

Is there anything special about the Happ PowerPro 80-1247-60 power supply? It looks like a standard ATX (20-pin connector) power supply to me.

I just pulled one from the "PC" in my Six Gun Select, which started acting flaky (would shut down or reset after a few minutes). Figured probably not too difficult to rebuild if it's actually a quality supply worth rebuilding... but I swapped in another ATX supply from an old PC, which is working just fine.

DogP