Well, I have them both indeed. The thing is that I won an auction of another VB that came with a stand and controller, but no powersource whatsoever. Now I have two working VB’s with individual power sources, nice if I get some old friends over for a retro night!
Hmmm, weird, it does have a fuse. I just opened up my meter and I saw the fuse, still in tact. Ah well, it works and I will never try measuring the current from batteries again lol! Now I understand the thechnical theory behind it, so I will be more careful in the future with these kind of things!
Nice work on that, it seems I just have to set a few new scores then! Though I just hate 3D Tetris, set a score on the first type of highscore. Though the game, to my opinion, is terrible.
I uploaded two new highscores, so I should be safe for a bit now 😉
I did exactly that, but have a cheapo multimeter. Well, I guess I found out why the resistor blew now LOL! When I wanted to measure it again after replacing the resistor I didn’t do it in the end as I figured that might have caused the problem. Good call so it seems hehe.
If you turn it on and make sure you do not have any background noises, do you hear the mirrors do their work? It could be just that your screens died and if you didn’t put in the game really tight, it could be that it does not load the game like it should, thus no sound!
BTW, I am Dutch and could be of help if you live near Alkmaar. PM me if you are interested in some Dutch help!
e5frog wrote:
It’s perhaps not related to quality but the accuracy of the printed value. I believe the one you soldered in was a 5% resistor, so somewhere in the area 0,95 – 1,05 ohms whereas the original was between 0,80 – 1,20.
Glad you sorted it out, and interesting to know there’s a resistor in the battery pack.
I’m guessing your indoors-exercise-bike? 😉
Hehe, I was just kidding about the bike part of course. It was indeed interesting to find the resistor in the pack. At first when the pack “died” I was flabbergasted as to why, I couldn’t imagine the metal plate broke down. Then when I opened up my pack like I said earlier in this thread, I realised there was a resistor and that was the culprit.
I still am guessing at how it could’ve burned out! I also measured the pack with a multimeter before and somewhere after that it broke down. Maybe it had something to do with the multimeter! The original resistor was .25 Watt as well, maybe using the multimeter overloaded it. Who knows……
BUT, it works now and that at a 10 Eurocent cost, not bad! Still running on those new rechargable Alkaline batteries, wow, those things really pack some power!!!
Well, I just replaced the resistor with a basic .25 Watt 1 ohm resistor and it works perfectly! Though these resistors have a second gold band and that dictates a better quality resistor. I can’t believe they put in one of the worst quality resistors on the battery pack! I bought mine for 10 Eurocents, and that is in a store! Ahh well, I got it done now and finally can play this when I am riding my bike 😉
Thanks for that piece of info, now my last question: would it be bad if I would buy a high Watt resistor? Would that interfere with the function of the resistor?
Thanks again e5frog, very helpful information! Though would you agree with me that if the AC/DC adaptor works perfectly fine it probably has been a coincidence that the resistor fried?
Well, using an adaptor is no problem at all with both VB’s I have. I bought the unit second handed through Ebay and the person who used it never had any problems with it before. Weird stuff…..
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Would you agree with me that if the adapter works fine it isn’t a problem with the VB?
Ahhh, thanks for that site. I will get a few tomorrow. The first time I powered the VB on with this battery pack it actually worked, but right after it, the resistor got fried. I use the new Alkaline rechargable Pure Energy batteries, could that have been the reason of the resistor getting fried or is it just one of those weird coincidences? I am a bit knowledgable with electronics, though I have my limits in it!
How do you know it is 1ohm? Thanks again for your good info. I now understand what you mean with protection against the current, am a bit intoxicated atm : )
Easy, there are two plastic springs you have to push in and then push out the plastic. It is made for this and still completely undamaged! Just watch down into the pack and you will see what I mean.
So I can just get away with soldering in a piece of wire huh, good to know! Though it baffles me that they put in a resistor where the adapter is at 10v and batteries get sucked dry very fast in the VB.
Sounds promising, I for one will jump on it! Who would have ever hoped for a full color Virtual Boy experience after all these dissapoiting news messages of it not happening! Though it is still a rumor of course, but this being an add-on to the Wii sounds more plausible than a stand-alone version.
