{"id":824,"date":"2010-04-30T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2011-06-15T20:59:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T18:59:33","slug":"power-connectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Power Connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently been getting machine resets on the TAF whenever I’ve switched it on. Not knowing why this should be occuring (there’s not a lot attached to the machine currently) I decided to take the opportunity to replace the power plugs and pin connectors on the power board.<\/p>\n

In order to accomplish this, I used my newly acquired Aoyue 474A+ desoldering station<\/strong>, which has recently been recommended in several gaming forums as being easy to use and very cost effective.<\/p>\n

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Aoyue 474A+ desoldering station<\/p><\/div>\n

It turns out to be very easy to use and gives good results:<\/p>\n

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J115 pins remove from board<\/p><\/div>\n

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What was left of J115 pin connector<\/p><\/div>\n

Having replaced the pin connector on the board it was time to replace the plugs:<\/p>\n

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Old J115 plug connector showing overheating<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite the numerous recommendation on the pinball newsgroup and forums to use Molex plugs with tri-furcon connectors, the company Pancon produces a range of IDC connectors which are similar to the originals but which can withstand a higher working temperature (the MAS CON range<\/a>). Ideal for the power connectors on the power board.<\/p>\n

I managed to find a local source of these and purchased them. Unfortunately, my local supplier only had 6 pin versions available, so in order to replace the 12 pin J115 two such plugs were needed.<\/p>\n

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Pancon Mas-con plugs for J115<\/p><\/div>\n

At the same time I replaced the connector plug for the GI circuits (J121) which, being 11 pin required one of the 6 pin plugs to be cut to 5 pin.<\/p>\n

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Pancon Mas-con plugs for J121<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently been getting machine resets on the TAF whenever I’ve switched it on. Not knowing why this should be occuring (there’s not a lot attached to the machine currently) I decided to take the opportunity to replace the power plugs and pin connectors on the power board. In order to accomplish this, I used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taf.gozzled.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}