[Coco] MC-10 Power Supply

[Bill Pierce]

As Keven mentioned, a lot of musical gear, especially Digitech effects pedals, use 9v AC power warts. They can be bought at most music stores and ordered online from places like "Musician's Friend" or "Sweetwater".

 

 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Becker <kevin at kevinbecker.org>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Apr 11, 2018 8:39 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] MC-10 Power Supply

My local Guitar Center has a 9V AC power supply in stock and I was going totry to pick it up after work but I didn't have time.I did, however, take a look at the MC-10 schematic in the service manualand it looked to me that that with the rectifier circuit a DC power supplywould actually work (mostly) fine.  The service manual states the negativevoltage is only used for the RS-232 port.  So I took a minor gamble when Igot home and, sure enough, it boots up just fine on DC.  I'm not going tomess with the RS-232 port until I get a proper power supply but for generalusage I think the DC adapter is fine.On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:45 PM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>wrote:> I use an old Nintendo power supply. It's been working fine for along time> now>> Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.>   Original Message> From: Kevin Becker> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 12:48 PM> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts> Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts> Subject: Re: [Coco] MC-10 Power Supply>>> It didn't seem plausible to me that a DC supply would work either but that> was a claim I found in a forum.  I was hoping to avoid buying a power> supply for this little guy but I guess I may need to.  I am going to go> sift through a big junk box we have in the basement here at work though.> Maybe I'll get lucky.>>>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Simon Jonassen <simon at roust-it.dk>> wrote:>> > A SNES power supply works....> >> > needs to be AC out - 9v doesn't really matter, nor does 12v as theres an> > internal regulator (7805) + smoothing cap and bridge rectifier.> >> > /Simon :)> >> >> > -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----> > Fra: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] På vegne af Kevin Becker> > Sendt: 11. april 2018 18:22> > Til: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts> > Emne: [Coco] MC-10 Power Supply> >> > I just picked up a pretty rough looking MC-10 from craigslist.  It came> > with the RAM expansion pack, a cassette cable, and the video cable, but> > sadly it is missing the power supply.  I've done a little googling and> > found some hints that a 9V DC power supply would work even though it> > requires 8V AC.> >> > Does anyone have any experience with this?> >> > --> > Coco mailing list> > Coco at maltedmedia.com> > https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco> >> >> > --> > Coco mailing list> > Coco at maltedmedia.com> > https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco> >>> --> Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>> --> Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco>-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco