my power

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Sun May 21, 2006 11:07 am

well im pretty much done my portable but now the power blinks on and off... whats wrong??

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun May 21, 2006 11:17 am

so it turns on and off by itself? what batteries and dc-dc convertor are you using?

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Sun May 21, 2006 11:23 am

the dc-dc for your guied....Cant remember what it is a 33 on the end ya know.. and for batteries i was using a 7.5 volt wall adapter so thats it

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun May 21, 2006 11:34 am

how much ma can your wall adapter supply? if it's less than 1.3A w/ LED mod or 1.6A-1.7A w/o LED mod then thats probably your problem. if your problem isn't with the power supply, maybe something is loose or there's a bad connection somewhere.

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:32 pm

well i checked my dc-dc's power to the 3.3 volt line and it was 6.9 or somthing... well F#@% there goes that n64

jeeze it was so small to... it was in a psone case ... running perfectly i put it down to eat breakfast and poof. time to find a new hobbie

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:58 pm

so was the dc-dc oputputting 6.9v or was that the input? if it was the input then it should be fine for that but too low for the screen. if it was the output, either your dc-dc is wierd and you're screwed or it's wired wrong and you're screwed. try running it on batteries and see if that helps.

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Sun May 21, 2006 2:14 pm

err.. i just plugged it in to the origional power supply and it is fried

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:18 pm

ok so back when it was working i was playing golden eye it froze up about 5 minutes in playing....so i put a bigger inductor in to give the n64 more current and um... somthing happened ...the dc-dc converter was fried and in turn that fried the n64.. thats my therory. So can you fry a dc-dc converter and a n64 by putting to big of an inductor in??

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:54 pm

yeah the bigger inductor probably forced too much current into the N64 and killed it.

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Sun May 21, 2006 8:32 pm

thats odd because it was barely bigger at all? also what size should i use?

Ps: thanks for all the help

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sun May 21, 2006 8:47 pm

you have any pics? mine's really small, about a 1cm donut and not tightly coiled.

toby dawg · Post by **toby dawg** » Sun May 21, 2006 11:38 pm

when i get my next inductor i will pm you a picture so you can tell me if its good