DC Hack (Proper method)
Written by Paul Swan
This is what I did to convert my “Galaxians” before building a wiring harness
to convert it to JAMMA. One of my boards had three of the four 7V AC supply
edge connector fingers burnt away and so I “commandeered” the coin
counter/lockout +7V DC supply pins to improve the power distribution. All the
wire links added were 1mm solid core domestic wiring cable, rated 15A, unless
stated otherwise.
Remove IR2 (78GU I.C.)
Remove IR1 (D44VM4 transistor)
Remove R88 (50Ohm 5W resistor)
Replace D4 (A15F diode) with a wire link
Replace D5 (A15F diode) with a wire link
Replace D6 (A14F diode) with a wire link
Replace D7 (A14F diode) with a wire link
Replace R87 (4Ohm 10W resistor) with a wire link
(optional) Add a wire link from edge connector pair 18,R to edge connector pair 19,S
(0.6mm solid core, via to via – to use coin counter supply as 5v line)
A fuse, F1, was listed in the schematic but didn’t seem to be implemented
(explicitly) on any of my boards. If it does exist, it should be bypassed
with a wire link and the whole supply fused at source.
For reference, here are the pinouts for both the original AC (in bold) supply and the DC
converted supply:-
| Component | Solder | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ground | Z | 22 | Ground |
| Ground | Ground | ||
| +12 (-12) | +12 (-12) | ||
| +12 | W | +12 | |
| Speaker – | Speaker + | ||
| Video Blue | Video Sync | ||
| Video Red | Video Green | ||
| Ground | S | Video Ground | |
| Table Type | NC | ||
| Player 2 Left | Player 2 Right | ||
| Player 1 Fire | Player 2 Fire | ||
| Player 1 Left | Player 1 Right | ||
| Start 1 | L | Start 2 | |
| Service | Credit | ||
| Coin 1 | Coin 2 | ||
| Coin Lockout | Coin Counter | ||
| 1 Play Lamp | 2 Play Lamp | ||
| NC (7v Out) | E | NC (7v Out) | |
| +5v (-7v) | +5v (-7v) | ||
| +5v (+7v) | +5v (+7v) | ||
| Ground | Ground | ||
| Ground | A | 1 | Ground |