Woo! PSX 5xxx-9xxx Power Supply

ArtemisGoldfish · Post by **ArtemisGoldfish** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:21 am

Okay, I haven't quite seen any one else say anything about a Battery power supply for the ol' PSXes, so I decided to show the one I finished yesterday. Luckily, you can't see my AWFUL soldering skills, because it's actually the first thing I've ever soldered.

I used a HUGE 5k Potentiometer (as seen) to get a good, precise 3.5v with a PTH08080 with the diagram from Skyone (Thanks, yo!).

My PSX's Controller hardware died soon after, so I'm gonna have to get a new PSX 5-9 model somewhere... Darn.

Here's the pic that I took while it was running *perfectly*.

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:30 pm

Zowie, that's smart! Great joerab!

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:06 pm

looks good!
you've earned respect

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:42 pm

Nice, I would have done that to my PSX, but I couldn't find voltages because I could never work this multi-meter!

Post by **gannon** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:49 pm

But the voltages and pinouts are listed here on the boards

Klefmung · Post by **Klefmung** » Fri May 05, 2006 11:48 pm

You think my rouge self thought of that?

*POINTS TO SIG*

ArtemisGoldfish · Post by **ArtemisGoldfish** » Sat May 06, 2006 4:16 am

gannon wrote:But the voltages and pinouts are listed here on the boards

I mean that I got the circuit for the PTH08080 from Skyone's page, but I did get the power connector pinouts from the PSX Power thread

I plan to (Well, some time in the future) buy the PTH again, get a good Stepup/Stepdown regulator to keep the 8v lead at 8v when the battery drops below that point.

Anyways, thankies for all the feedback. I put a decent toggle switch on the battery's positive lead so I don't have to keep unplugging the battery from the power supply, or the power supply from the PSX Mobo.

A short time after overvolting my PSX, the input was really, REALLY weird. I would have to press a button multiple times just to get it to register, then it stopped working alltogether. Nuts. At least the ol' gray box PSX's are cheap on eBay.