Power supply for Extron Super Emotia

[Svovl]

Hi all,

I've just ordered an Extron Super Emotia off eBay for a relatively reasonable price incl. shipping from the US.
But with many of those for sale, it was without power supply.

Now there has been some threads here about this topic (http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=34520) and (http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... lit=emotia).

However, what I would like to know is what the best strategy for getting or creating a power supply for this thing is?
Is it to solder a 5-pin DIN cable on an ATX power supply? Could some brand of power supply for e.g. an external hard drive or a laptop computer work?
In some other posts there has been links to power supplies that could work, but the links are mostly dead now.

What is your experiences? (if you link to something, please explain what you link to so the information will be available in the future as well )

Cheers,
Clemens

[Fudoh]

Could some brand of power supply for e.g. an external hard drive or a laptop computer work?

no, because you need +5V, +12V and -12V. Hard to find. If you want something more compact than an ATX PSU, get a FlexATX power supply, they're about a third of the size. You can easily get a passive one with a max. power out less than 100W.

[Svovl]

Could some brand of power supply for e.g. an external hard drive or a laptop computer work?

no, because you need +5V, +12V and -12V. Hard to find. If you want something more compact than an ATX PSU, get a FlexATX power supply, they're about a third of the size. You can easily get a passive one with a max. power out less than 100W.

So say something like a HEC-160SA-4FX (http://www.compucase.de/fileadmin/compu ... asheet.pdf)?

Where would I find the information about where to connect the wires of a 5-pin DIN cable to the ATX power supply?

[Fudoh]

yes, something like this, although the ones with a 40mm fan in the back can be quite noisy.

Just check the ATX specs on Wikipedia. Each cable color stands for a certain voltage. And you need to bridge two pins in order to switch the PSU on.

[Svovl]

yes, something like this, although the ones with a 40mm fan in the back can be quite noisy.

Just check the ATX specs on Wikipedia. Each cable color stands for a certain voltage. And you need to bridge two pins in order to switch the PSU on.

After a bit of surfing around I realized that it might be as simple as connecting a 5-pin DIN plug to the correct cables

I don't seem to be able to find a fanless FlexATX PSU however...

Thanks for the help!

[Fudoh]

yes, it's that easy (plus the "power on bridge")

Fortron FSP150-50TNF is fanless.

[darkstrider2]

Hi, wonder if anyone can help me with this dilemma,

So I just got an Extron Emotia without a power supply. Based on a Ebay Q&A [1], I searched Ebay for a particular model power supply that usually came with it (Model #: UP30430), and came across a listing this week who's selling alot of them [2].

Only problem is....it's a different connector. It's not a 5-pin DIN Midi, it's smaller and has like 4 pins.

Good news is that, the PSU (being the same model) seems to able to provide the necessary volts and amps. I was wondering if all that was needed to make this work with all models of Emotia was to cut the connector to and connect/solder a 5-pin MIDI din. Would this work?

If it can be done, there's currently 48 Emotia power supplies that can be easily made without hacking one up for $10 each.

[1] http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl ... 2061298645
[2] http://www.ebay.com/itm/ITE-UP30430-AC- ... 1926197821