Laseractive japanese model, anyone ever mod power supply

So I have a few laser disc units in my stable, mostly because they contain donor lasers and tray assembly parts for a laser active, that said. I have a Japanese model Laser active and I want to modify the internal power supply so it will run on US 110/120v 60hz power. Has anyone ever done this? It will currently run on 100v 50/60. I'm hoping it will be an easy rob from one of those donor units but it seems like almost everything has been done by someone on here so I figured I won't reinvent the wheel.

 

A 100v psu should be good to run in the range of 100-120v. A lot of people run their Japanese consoles directly off US mains power. If u want to be extra safe, u could check the components on the psu for voltage ranges to check they can handle the extra volts. Voltage regulators have a wide voltage range.

What Model laseractive is it? Provided the pinout from psu to main board is the same, u could just swap in a US psu from one of your other laseractives, but make sure the pinout is the same or modify the cable to account for any difference.

 

there is like 20% tolerance on PSUs
Some things don't even worry about line frequency (SMPS), all my 100v stuff runs on a 240 to 110v stepdown @50Hz

 

Well I only have one laseractive. The rest are just pioneer laser disc players. I'll open them up this weekend to compare.

Also any chance any of you have one? I have the CLD-A100 and the TG16/NEC pac. I'd love to know if an Everdrive works with them.

 

Mine only has a Sega PAC and I believe the answer about using an Everdrive on the PAC-N1/10 is no because of how far the cards need to be inserted. My only resource was from seeing a picture of one opened up and how far back the cart connector is.

 

I have a TG/PCEngine Everdrive in my PAC it works fine.

 

Holy crap it cleared that small opening? I thought for sure it would only fit about half way. Thanks for the proof!

 

You're welcome.
I'm fairly new to owning a LaserActive, picked mine up at a local Goodwill, I about had a heart attack when I saw it. I was looking for a Laserdisc player, I found 10 or so LDs the day before so I figured they would have a player in back that they had not priced yet. I'm so glad I went back and looked. It had the MegaDrive PAC in it, and the PCEngine PAC was sitting on the shelf next to it. I live in a milliary town so I guess it makes sense that someone had the Japanese version.
I need to recap it there is some bad video noise and the audio is horrible, but I am stoked to own it all the same.

 

That is insane! At a goodwill! I ordered mine from japan. Krikzz shipped my unit a few days ago. I would love to have the sega pac. I think there was a fix for an original sound issue on the laseractives. I only have the NEC pac as of now.

 

I ordered a playstation controller adapter for the NEC since I didn't own a controller also.

 

You could also order a TG16 to PC Engine controller adapter.

By the way, as long as the voltage matches up and the amperage is high enough, you could quite easily replace the PSU with an equivalent 120V US counterpart. I've been thinking about doing the same with mine (also a Japanese unit with MD pac), but with a 240V Australian one, just for convenience.

 

You need to recap the PACs too, this is one of mine, massive cap leakage.