Re: Connect wires to ac adapter


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Posted by CthulhuLuke on 18, 2001 at 8:30 PM:

In Reply to: Re: Easiest way to power a Coin Door ever. posted by Rahzel on 18, 2001 at 4:35 AM:

You don't gotta open up the 12v ac adapter at all, just simply find the end of the 2 wires that are coming out of the ac adapter, mine went to a small female connector, I think to a telephone message machine, and cut a little bit before the connector, so you have a good amount of wire to work with, and can use that female adapter for another project if you want to. Next is to seperate the 2 wires, don't seperate all of the wires, just bout 8" of working space. Next is to strip off the insulation bout 3/4" and wire up those 2 wires to the 2 wires coming out of the coin door's light bulb. It doesn't matter which wire goes to which, because there is no need to worry about positive and negative flow, it will work the exact same either way.

*Warning!!* Don't touch the 2 wires while they are hot, because they do contain enough electricity to give you a mild shock, enough to burn yeah, and it feels VERy unpleasant. I accidently brushed myself with it and it was just enough to make my finger numb, but the sparks that came off the metal coin box were VERY bad in my downstairs, specially since it's carpet (safety first^_^)
Also, don't use any expensive power supplies off of new stuff, cause that'd be a waste of a perfectly good power supply, just find one that's funky enough to not be worth anything, but clean enough to be perfectly safe.
I'll get pictures of this sometime, probably a while from now since I don't have a digital camera, just disposable and what not.
: : Well I didn't want to open up my brothers nice computer that he would kill me bout to try out the Y-splitter to the PC power supply, so I went with my dad into his shop and measured out that it took 12v to power the 2 lamps. Dooodeeduum... how to power up the coin door. Of course!! Why not just use a AC or a DC adapter that would plug into a wall socket. Sure enough, my dad had a big bucket full of em, they are marked at like .49 and 1.00, you can find em virtually anywhere, just go to good will or somethin, and pick up a bunch of ac and dc adapters. So I tried it out tonight, it works great, just twisted the wires for now, am going to solder them up and maybe put somethin like electric tape over the open connections so they dont spark (I accidently got some blue sparks when one of the wires disconnected and hit the coin box.) This seems to be a much, much easier solution than what I've been reading about using your PC Power Supply and having to use a Y-splitter and a bunch of other shiznit.
: : I'll draw out a diagram sometime later for anyone who is lost, but if you have access to a car, just go get a 12v ac adaptor, they are pretty common, try somewhere like an old computer shop, ask if they have any old cordless phone ac adapters, they work fine.

: THat helps a lot man, for the past 2 days ive been pulling apart the olddest and shittiest comps and all the power supplies are huge! What do I need to connect to my wires in the ac/dc adapter? just cut the cord and use the wires or open the box up or what?




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