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posted by 98PaceCar on Apr 24, 2009:

Well, I got brave and went ahead and tested my Zemmix after finding what should be the correct plug adaptor and setting it to the 100v setting. Either my adaptor is wrong or my Zemmix is dead, but I didn't even get the power light on it to come on. Tried with and without a cart in the slot, but no luck.

Does anybody have any idea of common failure points or even where to start on this?
 

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posted by ASSEMbler on Apr 24, 2009:

I have a couple of zemmix units, what amperage was the psu you used.
 

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posted by 98PaceCar on Apr 24, 2009:

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I have a couple of zemmix units, what amperage was the psu you used.

It's a CPC-51 with a built in power supply. I just got an adaptor to convert the plug from Korea to US. No extra transformer or anything like that. The switch on the side was set to 100v as well.
 

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posted by Taucias on Apr 25, 2009:

I owned a Scorpion (actually called Scorpion XVI, there was a Scorpion VIII famicom clone too). It was not a bad machine, but the controllers were 3 button and sometimes you'd get a blank randomly colored screen and a steady tone. You'd have to reset a few times to get it to work. This happened on a lot of them apparently.

The cool thing was to play with the switches and load games like Streets of Rage to get Bare Knuckle etc.

It was unforuntately not compatible with the 32x, but the MegaCD worked OK. I got mine from Virtual Reality (the game specific Beaties chain).
 

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posted by ASSEMbler on Apr 26, 2009:

98PaceCar said:




It's a CPC-51 with a built in power supply. I just got an adaptor to convert the plug from Korea to US. No extra transformer or anything like that. The switch on the side was set to 100v as well.

Ah ok. Check the fuse and if that doesn't work we'll help you find the right internal voltage somehow. If you bought it from EU it might have been fed 220v and cooked the power circuitry.
 

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posted by Yakumo on Apr 26, 2009:

Taucias said:




I owned a Scorpion (actually called Scorpion XVI, there was a Scorpion VIII famicom clone too).

I'd love to own a mint Scorpion XVI just for the mutated look it has of the original Mega Drive.

Yakumo
 

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posted by 98PaceCar on Apr 26, 2009:

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Ah ok. Check the fuse and if that doesn't work we'll help you find the right internal voltage somehow. If you bought it from EU it might have been fed 220v and cooked the power circuitry.

You might have nailed this one. I cracked it open and found 2 inline fuse holders in between the mains switch and the transformer. I pulled both and found that one is dead. Tracing back, it appears to the the 110 line, so that explains why I didn't get anything.

The tricky part is this appears to be a glass fuse with a resister embedded in it. The fuse holder designates a .2a fuse, but no indication of the resistance. Unfortunately, it measures open, so I can't get a reading on what it should be that way. Any ideas on where I might be able to find one of these? I suppose I could also solder a resister in parallel with a normal .2a fuse, but that seems a bit risky.
 

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posted by ASSEMbler on Apr 28, 2009:

There should be tiny etch on it for the rating. Can you show pics of the fuse?
 

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posted by 98PaceCar on Apr 29, 2009:

As requested, here's a pic. I've found 250v 0.2a on one end of it. If I'm reading the color bands on the resister correctly, it's a 91 ohm 1% tolerance. Not sure of the wattage.

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posted by ASSEMbler on Apr 29, 2009:

If that was blown there's be nothing but black powder inside.

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I think the problem lies elsewhere.
 

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