Model 2 power switches - region-specific or interchangeable?
Jul 14, 2015 18:05:31 GMT
Post by jeipiika on Jul 14, 2015 18:05:31 GMT
I am probably about to ask the stupidest question ever asked on this board, but after seeing 13 pages of switched and switchless region mods come back from search, I feel I need to ask this of a human being. Here goes:
Are power switches for model 2 units specific to a region's power supply, or generic and interchangeable?
I ask this because my PAL model 2 VA5 came with a broken power switch - as in it's broken off the pole that enters the switch assembly. I've opened the machine about 5 times to fish the button out, and it's now lightly glued in place pending a more definitive fix. There was also a loose spring inside has also disappeared during I think the third of fourth procedure (I suspect my cat has hidden it for the lulz).
Luck would have it, a replacement appeared on e(vil)Bay, so I ordered one of these:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181794830864
It's from a Japanese unit, so the button is grey, and it appears to be complete, however there's an elephant in the room - or rather, a small blue nodule that looks worryingly like a varistor to my layman eyes. And everything I've read has come to the general consensus that varistor + wrong PSU = varistor a splode. I can't find schematics for the power supply to tell me whether that switch is wired into the high-voltage mains side of the PSU, or the fairly universal low-voltage DC side. The placing of the connector, and some of the videos I've seen, suggest the former.
If these switches are generic, that's best-case scenario - I can simply (theoretically) swap out the broken switch for the new one. If not, I've got an assembly I can get components from. Worst-case, it's back on the Bay for a donor unit.
Are power switches for model 2 units specific to a region's power supply, or generic and interchangeable?
I ask this because my PAL model 2 VA5 came with a broken power switch - as in it's broken off the pole that enters the switch assembly. I've opened the machine about 5 times to fish the button out, and it's now lightly glued in place pending a more definitive fix. There was also a loose spring inside has also disappeared during I think the third of fourth procedure (I suspect my cat has hidden it for the lulz).
Luck would have it, a replacement appeared on e(vil)Bay, so I ordered one of these:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181794830864
It's from a Japanese unit, so the button is grey, and it appears to be complete, however there's an elephant in the room - or rather, a small blue nodule that looks worryingly like a varistor to my layman eyes. And everything I've read has come to the general consensus that varistor + wrong PSU = varistor a splode. I can't find schematics for the power supply to tell me whether that switch is wired into the high-voltage mains side of the PSU, or the fairly universal low-voltage DC side. The placing of the connector, and some of the videos I've seen, suggest the former.
If these switches are generic, that's best-case scenario - I can simply (theoretically) swap out the broken switch for the new one. If not, I've got an assembly I can get components from. Worst-case, it's back on the Bay for a donor unit.
