Rick Dangerous Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 I have a friend who has worked for IBM for 40 years at their chip plant (Now Global Foundries locally.) He fixed a fried Jag of a friends for mine who had accidentally plugged it into his NES power supply. This gave him the idea to engineer a circuit so that it wouldn't fry but would actually run on a NES power supply, as well as the original Jag supply. Here is the message I received last night from him: "My new circuit works on the bench, Powered up a Jaguar with an NES power adapter and the original Jaguar power adapter, and no smoke, voltages measure correctly after the regulators too." He sent me a video but res was somewhat bad so pictures and confirmation to follow. The system was playing a game and working fine on an NES power brick, and then a Jag. Why do this? Because its possible? I think it's pretty cool for whatever reason. Now everyone tell me why this is a horrible idea!!! lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Not a horrible idea, but Jaguar compatible power supplies aren't rare. Around $10 on eBay. I'd go that route before modding my console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 This was an experiment to idiot proof the console. I will still be using an OEM power supply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 nes has a diode rectifier bridge that allows it to run on any polarity, ac or dc. most consoles cannot handle ac at all. some regulators are tolerant of reverse polarity, meaning they wont take damage or pass reverse voltage to the console. it wont work obviously, but it wont damage anyting. the regulator circuit in the jag is not fault tolerant, so you will fry something by hooking it up backwards. for fault tolerance, a single inline diode will do. for operation on any dc or ac supply, you need a full bridge rectifier (4 diodes) and an electrolytic filter cap. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitari Posted January 13, 2018 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Dymo tape thus; JAG NES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+madman Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 I wonder how many people will just read "Jaguar running on an NES power brick" and blow their Jags up as a result of this. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Stephen Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 I wonder how many people will just read "Jaguar running on an NES power brick" and blow their Jags up as a result of this. Hopefully a bunch. The dumb asses that blow them up, make my working Jag worth more money. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+madman Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Hopefully a bunch. The dumb asses that blow them up, make my working Jag worth more money. If we're lucky their Jag won't turn on, so they'll take the NES supply and then plug it into the Jag CD hoping that it'll work on that... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted January 14, 2018 Author Share Posted January 14, 2018 Hence the large "do not try this at home" lol. But I know what you mean.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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