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Need value of R63 resistor on a sega saturn..

Darklegion - Oct 30, 2003

		Darklegion	Oct 30, 2003
		I removed this resistor because it was blown and in my stupidity I didn't write down its value,and now I can't find where I put it.Anyway its located right under the ac connector on the power supply board and should blue in colour so if someone could work out its value with a multimeter or by using the colour coding,that would be great. Thanks in advance

		mal	Oct 30, 2003
		I'll have a look later if I get a chance. What model Saturn out of interest?

		Darklegion	Oct 31, 2003
		Its an australian model 1,21 pin...if you could take a look that would be great.Even though I really need to clean up this hole,can't find a damn thing anymore

		mal	Oct 31, 2003
		I've got one of those. Watch this space.

		mal	Oct 31, 2003
		I can't actually find R63. :huh

		Darklegion	Nov 2, 2003
		Really? Its right in front of a greencap and straight in front of the a/c connector.Its written upside down if your looking from the front of the saturn,so that might be confusing you fuse is right near as well if that helps at all. I'm cleaning out my room tommorrow,maybe i'll find it somewhere.

		mal	Nov 2, 2003
		I'll have another look when I get home. :thumbs-up:

		Darklegion	Nov 11, 2003
		I found it(2 actually),now i've gotta work out which is for the dreamcast controller port and which is for the saturn *scratches head*

		mal	Nov 12, 2003
		I completely forgot about this. Which resistor from the DC controller board are you talking about?

		Darklegion	Nov 14, 2003
		f1,the one that everyone has problems with... I can check it though,as I have a good working dc....I haven't bothered yet,though as i've had other things going on to sort out.I just did a search and couldn't find any info on the regular style fuse(which blew as well btw) On the pcb it looks like 0.3a but the decimal and 3 are a fair way apart,and that sounds a fair bit too low,its 3a more likely?

		Alexvrb	Nov 15, 2003
		I've heard different things, and I've heard of different DCs using different ones, but that may not be correct. Here's a post from DCemu, he seems to know what he's talking about despite his name:     Originally posted by TheDumbAss Ok... The stock resistor is a 4.7Ohm FUSABLE resistor... Fuseable meaning it is designed to burn out if it gets overloaded. 10Ohm will work 'ok'... but if you get 4 controllers hooked up and have a VMU in each then the power drain may get to be too much... Leading to slow and unresponsive controls and/or other problems especially if you have one or more rumble packs installed as well. 16bit... I dont know if synlor did used a 10Ohm or not... but your probibly thinking about me. I used two 10ohm resistors in parallel to crate a 5ohm load. (as close as I could get to 5ohms locally w/o special ordering) And my dual resistor setup has turned black but does still work. For how much longer is anyones guess... A good while back someone had posted some infortmation about a resistor that had a built in curcuit breaker... that way it would act like a fuseable resistor and protect your system while not requiring you to solder in a whole new resistor every time it blows. You could look around on DCE for more stuff on this.

		Darklegion	Jun 17, 2004
		Well I just got myself a new saturn(finally) and It has the same power supply.....I checked the resistor and it reads 272 KOhms(out of circuit).