hipgear/intec on 5v?

Post by **Triton** » Fri May 12, 2006 3:47 pm

im pretty sure this has been discussed before but i need to know/find out if one will run on 5v or find a step up regulater for my snesminiP the hip gear i got from TT doesnt seem to work at all but i havent worked on it in weeks, if anyone has the pinouts for it for the controll board i need those thanks!

Post by **Skyone** » Fri May 12, 2006 3:50 pm

Ladyada's site

Most Hipgears will run on 6v, 5v is pushing it.

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Sat May 13, 2006 3:00 pm

i tried runnning my intec screen on 4 aa rechargables which were about 5v
and the screen is way to dim to play

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Sat May 13, 2006 3:54 pm

i heard the backlight needs around 6v but if you LED mod it 5v should be fine.

Post by **Triton** » Sat May 13, 2006 5:11 pm

cool, but the hipgear i have i just get random colored lines wien i try to turn it on, no video at all

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Sat May 13, 2006 8:42 pm

does work with a higher voltage than 5v

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Sun May 14, 2006 12:12 pm

shmagoogin77 wrote:does work with a higher voltage than 5v

Yep. They actually run off 12V normally.

Some hip gears will run fine on 5V backlight and all. Others will be very dim and you will have to do an LED mod for a backlight. I did the mod for my NES boy and I was happy with the results. With the NOAC only drawing 50 ma, and the screen LED modded it takes forever to drain the batterys.

I posted the pinout in the sticky but I think it got kinda lost. Here is it.
http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... out4yi.jpg