Battery power for a NES.

Harold · Post by **Harold** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 10:42 pm

I'd like to run my original nes off of batteries. Anyone here wanna kick down some information on what I need to do? Can I do it with an array of AA's? Is some sort of RC car batter better? Any info appreciated.

-Harold

Geebs61 · Post by **Geebs61** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:06 am

if all you wanna do is run it off batteries, and not mod it at all, all you need is anything over 7.5 volts. I hear you can run it for about an hour on a 9 volt.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:00 am

You can also use the set up here http://www.benheck.com/Games/Project%2042%20Page.htm look at Ben's first NES and he uses an 11v battery.

All you have to do to make that happen is connect the battery to the 7808 power regulator thats inside the system. Connect to the pins labled +9 and -9

Harold · Post by **Harold** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:18 am

Thanks for the quick replies!

Is there some way to do it without opening the nes up? Can I run the batteries into the connecter on the back of the unit. Cannibalizing the wall wart power adapter for it's connecter is not out of the question at all. Is there an advantage to wiring the batteries directly to the circut board?

Second question: If its true that you can run it for an hour on a 9 volt, wouldn't it be possibe to run it for 2 hours on 2 nine volts wired up in serial (or parallel, I don't know much about electronics)??

thanks again.

-Harold

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:07 am

Of course you could wire it with the wall wart connector. cut it, determine which wire goes where on the connector, and connect it to a 9volt or 2. you would need to wire them in parallel, which connects the positives and negatives together.

Harold · Post by **Harold** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:05 am

Thanks for affirming my suspicion. How would I go about figuring out which wire (pos or neg) connects to which wire on the hacked wall wart?

-Harold

p.s. sorry I'm a putz, and thanks again for the replies.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:41 am

Negitive is usually the wire connected to metal ring around the plug, postive is the little male part of the plug. This is what usually is I dont know if Nintendo followed this.

RNS0504 · Post by **RNS0504** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 6:30 pm

i made a diagram here [url]http://tinypic.com/dchs2[/url]

Harold · Post by **Harold** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:15 pm

You rule. Plain and simple.

-Harold

May everyone recieve such helpful help on their paths to portabalization.