I am a murderer...I think.

[pmitch_3m]

I think I made a huge blunder and killed not only a newly aquired 7800 but a 2600 as well. To explain my stupidity, I recently picked up a 7800 that of course had no PSU. I looked through the posts and read the 7800 FAQ and decided to do the power mod. After going to RadioCr*p which had none of the parts I needed, I ventured off on my own idea. Basically, I have a plug that I use for my 2600 that is a universal, you plug the appropriate male end on and your ready to go. Well, when removing this portion I thought, hey I could just carve this up a bit and make it fit into the 7800. I did it, plug it in and it worked, red light on "Yeah!"...and then off "NO!"...dead. Like an idiot, I think, maybe it's the plug, throw the male end back on and plug it into my 2600, not paying attention to the polarity. I smell the fumes. I feel absolutely sick to my stomach. I feel like I killed two of my kids. If anyone can help, I would gladly send these units to be looked at and possibly saved. They're not in super great shape or anything, but they are Ataris and I shudder to think that I have made them useless. I made a giant mistake, please help.

[ApolloBoy]

You could go ahead and PM CPUWIZ to look at your system.

[pmitch_3m]

Thanks...CPUWIZ is being a great help Hopefully I'll be able to fix my own errors with his help.

[Video]

I'm pretty sure the 2600 has some kind of polarity protection. At least mine does, cause I have one of those multi end polarity things your talking about and hook it up backwards quiet often.

 

The 7800, on the otherhand, I'm pretty sure doesn't have a polarity protection thingy. I remember carving a multi plug adaptor to fit, and it worked fine, till I unhooked it to take it somewhere and then hooked it up and it smoked my 7800.

 

Luckily, since then, I got another 7800, and a Power supply this time.

 

I don't know about 7800, but the 2600 is simple enough it's likely fixable.

[ussexplorer]

The only problem with radioshack is the 1/8" mono jack I got is not shielded. So when I pluged the 2600 power supply in the first time I noticed it sparked when it touched the +/- together. So I noted to myself to plug the adaptor into the system before the wall. Works just fine and my 7800 works great.

 

later,

 

Josh

[pmitch_3m]

As bad as yesterday sucked, today is a great day! Thanks to CPUWIZ's guidance and problem solving, I was able to revive both machines. Granted, I am no electrician and my work was a completely hack job, but those little guys are ready to play games again I am off to buy some 7800 carts to celebrate. Thanks to everyone for their advice and help. I even managed to mount a different PSU connection on the 7800, so now she is ready for gaming action! Thanks again

 

Late,

p

[Video]

Glad to hear you got your stuff back up and running with the right parts this time.