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by lampstore
Tue Oct 06, 2009 8:51 pm
Forum: 1990's Gaming
Topic: power regulator help.
Replies: 2
Views: 1279

Re: power regulator help.

I'm pretty sure its the chip, even tho its heated up those times I still get the voltage to drop.
by lampstore
Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:52 am
Forum: 1990's Gaming
Topic: power regulator help.
Replies: 2
Views: 1279

power regulator help.

I wired up my regulator and it gives me the voltage but nearly catches on fire, I thought maybe the resistor was broken or I wired it wrong so I rewired the capacitor making sure to wire it to the negative middle bulb on the pth8008waz or what ever its called that didn't work, what am I doing wrong ...
by lampstore
Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:10 pm
Forum: 1990's Gaming
Topic: New guy needs help.
Replies: 8
Views: 3798

Re: New guy needs help.

Well I wish I knew that yesterday burned my self pretty good with a soldering iron trying to get it off, since I don't have a battery can I solder up that power port that came with the ps1 screen and plug in a 7.5 volt ac adapter into it to test the nintendo 64 + screen combo? then if it works when ...
by lampstore
Tue Sep 29, 2009 9:53 pm
Forum: 1990's Gaming
Topic: New guy needs help.
Replies: 8
Views: 3798

Re: New guy needs help.

thank you all for the responses, I'm having trouble desolderling the power plugin on the back, is there a better technique or a written method somewhere on this website?
by lampstore
Tue Sep 29, 2009 5:29 pm
Forum: 1990's Gaming
Topic: New guy needs help.
Replies: 8
Views: 3798

New guy needs help.

I saw a video on this two weeks ago and thought how cool it would be to do this so I set out to accomplish this. I bought a 24x48 styrene .08 sheet, got a ps1 lcd screen off ebay, got the power regulator from Texas Instruments. I just need a few questions answered as I have never done anything like ...