230v Dreamcast power supply

I'm looking for a new 230v power supply for an NTSC dreamcast that I have recently acquired but I so far have only found 110v ones.
Does anyone know somewhere where I could buy one?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayIS...uEPwLx6M%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_500wt_922


This guy has them brand new old stock, I always purchase from him, just ask to relist...

 

Thanks a lot, hopefully he can ship to Australia as its only listed as shipping to UK.

 

If not there are a ton of UK guys on here, who I am sure can help....

 

<- helpful UK guy.

 

Wow thanks heaps. Also is there such a thing as a universal power supply for the Dreamcast?

 

I'm actually very interested in the same thing. I've got a couple of japanese casts which I would like to swap power supplies with 230v ones.

If anyone else has spares or are in need of 110v ones, I'd be more than happy to trade/buy some off you.

 

So communication with that seller has been a bit difficult any ideas for other places where I could get one?

 

Ask helpful UK guy to purchase on your behalf? I have bought stuff (Ic's) from him before and he is very approachable and honest (browse his feedback in the selling forums).

 

Why aren't you asking one of us to buy it for you? Bad_ad already said he would.

 

NO MATTER WHAT, DO NOT FIT A 220V PSU in a HEATPIPES Dreamcast. That type of power supply is designed to work on the 1999/2000 models with a better version of the "HOLLY" chip (GPU) which had less power consumption. The PSU will slow burn into charcoal if you do that.

You have been warned.

 

Eh so long as the mobo and GD-ROM are fine stupidity won't take too much away from the rest of us. Power supplies aren't too difficult to build.

 

Vov0

I got a v0 with heatpipes + 220v PSU since ages and still works fine, where dit you get that from?

 

I had one cook the capacitors from excess heat.

I had to replace the capacitors to fix the power supply.

I used that Dreamcast A LOT (with PSO) so it was on like half the day. It suddenly started to reset and glitch. I put the Japanese PSU back on it and it gone back to normal. The 220v PSU would not work anymore. It went back once I had all the capacitors that are surrounded by the heatsink replaced.

If there's more than one kind of 220V power supply (I am not aware of since I'm on a NTSC region) what I said might not apply to some of them. The one I am talking about is the Matsushita one with dark brown board (it was a longer edge at the power connector that goes to the dreamcast PSU.

Because there's no heatpipes Dreamcast released or sold in Europe, they saved a little in materials by gimping the PSU slightly.

 

Where did you get that information from regarding the better version of the Holly chip?

Ted.

 

If you look early Dreamcast units, they have heatpipes and active cooling (a fan attached to a heatsink) where later units have a simple passive aluminium heatsink with a much cheaper design that are obviously not enough for cooling the earlier model. The fan still exists but it's not attached to the heatsink anymore.

 

I was in the thinking you were implying the chip itself being more efficient in the 1999/2000 models?

Ted.

 

It's exactly what I said. They changed a lot of the circuits on the 2nd generation of the Dreamcast from 5V to 3V and reduced the power requitements for the GPU chip. That allowed them to reduce the amount of metal used on the heatsing, making the Dreamcast cheaper to build. That's the whole point of improving the design.

But that also means the thing draw less power. So if you fit a power supply made for the newer model on a older model the power supply will overheat and you will have capacitor problems in the power supply.

 

the dreamcast 110V power supplies are readily convertible to 240V!
a member of my forum has a tutorial
see my signature ...

 

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