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Power plug help

  • 10-02-2006 1:53pm
    #1
    Endurance Man
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    Well i have a Logitech Wingman Force Feedback Joystick here. I seem to have lost the original power supply that came with it :(, but i have a bunch here that have plugs which fit into the joystick. Im just worried about all that Input/Output stuff :confused: , scared im gonna give it to much/little juice.
    On the bottom of the joystick it says :

    Rating: 5Vdc 100mA
    24Vdc 750mA

    What should the output be on the powersupply :confused: .

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    excal2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34 ✭excal2


    Endurance Man wrote:
    Well i have a Logitech Wingman Force Feedback Joystick here. I seem to have lost the original power supply that came with it :(, but i have a bunch here that have plugs which fit into the joystick. Im just worried about all that Input/Output stuff :confused: , scared im gonna give it to much/little juice.
    On the bottom of the joystick it says :

    Rating: 5Vdc 100mA
    24Vdc 750mA

    What should the output be on the powersupply :confused: .

    Cheers.

    The best bet is to try and match the 5v 100mA .

    If you have a 5v P/S then ur sorted.
    Its not going to matter if the amps are over that as the joystick will just draw as much current as it needs, just make sure the power supply is at least 100mA if its below that it will blow the power supply.

    The figures are the range that the joystick will use IMHO.

    Hope that helps....


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
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    excal2 wrote:
    Its not going to matter if the amps are over that as the joystick will just draw as much current as it needs, just make sure the power supply is at least 100mA if its below that it will blow the power supply.
    Very unlikely to find a PSU that supplies less than 100mA.
    Very likely to find a supply that floats well above 5V if you take ONLY 100mA from it. You need the 5V supply to be regulated.

    5V can also be got out of a USB port, 200mA from almost all and 500mA from most. It is for the electronics and so must be fairly exact. You can get adaptors in pound shops for charging mobile phones. You would also need a Multimeter to check the voltage was ok and most importantly the polarity so you get the + and - the right way around.

    The 24V 750mA is for the force feed back, that's 18 Watts and you can't get that from the computer. A seperate PSU, perhaps an old laptop PSU that gives out 20V ?
    Soldering Iorns and some power tool chargers have 24V power supplies - avoid they would be unregulated.


    Check the symbol like a C with a dot in the centre for polarity. A few are backwards. And a few old USR modem adapters were AC instead of CD :eek:

    What do you have in terms of adapters ??


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