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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ramapcsx2

Power GBS through ESP

Open wasbaun opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Hi there, my 5v barrel power plug kinda died today and I had no replacement. So I tried using a usb charger and plugged it directly in the esp. Now the the GBS board is powered through the esp and it works. I watched the whole fellowship of the ring with now problem with my ps2 via component. The wirering itself was made after voultars guide, with multiple grounds.

My question is, if this could harm the hardware? I like the idea, powering the whole gbs-controll with a standard usb cabel instead of changing the plug on the GBS board.

wasbaun avatar Dec 26 '21 11:12 wasbaun

It is certainly operating the 3.3V regulator on the ESP board out of specs. This might work fine for a while, then fail suddenly. I would repair the barrel connector :)

ramapcsx2 avatar Dec 26 '21 19:12 ramapcsx2

I can confirm what @ramapcsx2 says, I burnt my 3.3V regulator on the ESP doing this haha

atinocoh avatar Feb 21 '22 00:02 atinocoh

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4090 i've been powering mine with one of these if you want an alternative to the barrel jack

NO-ob avatar May 14 '22 11:05 NO-ob