 The Great Search, watched you by Digikey and Anaphrit. Every single legal data brings you the power of her brain to find things on digikey.com. We call this segment The Great Search. Lady had to take it away. Okay. Gigantic, pulsing brain of searching for parts. Okay, so this, we sometimes look on social media and I see like people like asking folks like, oh, you know, how do I repair this or where do I get something? This person actually did find an alternative to this power supply, but is this such a common issue that I've seen for people who are repairing like old synthesizers or old computers, old test equipment or just like anything electronic scene old that might be like kind of intense and isn't just like simple battery power. It's not that uncommon to have like crazy weird power supplies. So this is, you know, I don't know what this is. It's like extra superemotion. What is this extra superemotion? I guess it's a CRT gaming system. Oh, it's a Mac scan converter. Whoa, I don't remember this at all. Whoa, I like how it's like, this is the company. I know like we can get more information about it. So I guess it's some scan converter. Just cool. So this old air piece of equipment requires a power supply that gives it plus and minus 12 volts as well as plus five volts. And at like pretty high currents too, not like 300 milliamps. It's like they want three amps, five volts, two amps at plus 12 and then, you know, point three amps at negative 12. So you definitely could take like an ITX power supply and, you know, make a connector and, you know, design your own power supply. But in this case, this person was room capping the power supply because the capacitors had gone bad. Looks like they was even leaking a little bit of electrolyte out there. But it's also possible to get new power supplies, even ones for these kinds of weird interfaces. So let's take a look. So first off, you always want to look at the label for all the powers and currents. So like I said, there's three power supply voltages, five volt, 12 volt and negative 12 volt. And it needs, you know, as you expect because it's more than one voltage, it has a strange connector. In this case, it's a DIN connector. I don't think they showed the DIN connector, but there is a diagram, which is really nice. We're gonna need this diagram. So then let's go to AC DC power supply. Okay, couple of options. Got a hydrate. Okay, so there's AC DC converters and these are like modules and they have tons of them. You know, often these are called like mean wells. They're mounted inside of an enclosure and they will absolutely work, but they often have exposed mains wire over here. So they're definitely not safe. They're good if you're making like a device that has, you know, a power input or inlet and you know how to handle these voltages and you won't mess up confusing the hot and the neutral on the ground. But for mere mortals, what you really want is something that takes like an IEC plug which these tend not to and it again gives you that connector. So there's a kind of like, this is did you sell stuff for engineering and product design? So you'll be able to get little modules and stuff, but we want a wall power adapter, something that plugs into AC and gives you that voltage out. Okay, so we definitely want something in stock. So let's click in stock, which will cut down a lot of options. Next up, I don't actually care if it's active or not because let's say we only get one. I don't care if it's like, you know, it's this is the last time buy or whatever, like we'll work cool with whatever because we're only gonna get one. For voltage input, I'm not gonna be picky because I'm in the U.S. I don't really, you know, as long as it covers one 10 and pretty much everything is gonna cover one 10, one 12 volts, one 15 volts. I'm good to go. Okay, so next we want the voltage output. This is the important part because remember, we want plus five, plus 12 and negative 12. So if you look through the list, there is separated by commas, sometimes multiple voltages in this case, 24, five, negative 15, 55, 62, whatever. But up here, there is five, 24, negative 12 and then five, 12, negative 12. That's what we want. Bam. And that really cuts down. There's not a lot of options. So, you know, if you couldn't find something with the exact same connector, you could still get this. You know, if you did have the outputs and the outputs are the right currents, you can always cut the connector off and then slice on your own connector. But it's worth checking if they have the connector we want. So first up, I also have to make sure that I have the current outputs necessary. In this case, I need three amps at five volts and 12 volts, two amps, just like quite a bit. So let's look at what's available. So it looks like there's some with this DIN and some with this weird ass rectangular connector. But they do have, you know, seven total and they have a bunch that are the DINs. And so let me just select DIN connector. That's round connector. And that's that one that has, what was it? Five volts, three amps. So if we look at the current output here, you wanna match it up. So like five here is four amps output. This is five volts, 2.4 amps. And this one's 2.5, sorry, this is 5.5, but the 12 volt is only one and a half amps. So this one wouldn't be that good. This one would be okay because it has the way I'm at current. So you could do this one, but there's only one in stock. And then this one is the one that had the right amount of current. To be honest, you might be able to get away with this one. Well, actually the 12 volt is also one amp. So you definitely need to have this one, 50 watt because it needs to have enough current from the 512 and negative 12. This is way, this is over specced, but like it's always okay to have more current capabilities as long as it is within the voltage range. So let's now check the connector. So meanwhile, like I mentioned, they're top supplier of beefy power supplies or they're really good at it. They've been doing it for a long time. Looks like they have a lot of ones in this family and you can select different ripple and rated efficiencies, but like this one's stocked and I don't really care too much about the efficiency. And then they have the connector. Okay, so here's another thing you gotta watch out for. So DIN connectors are not labeled the way you'd expect like one, two, three, four, five. They actually like alternate. And this is also upside down. So we wanna rotate this. So I'm gonna just go doot, doot. So now it's upside down, but that means, you know, you read it backwards, but at least that way you can matchy matchy. So the first pin, so this leftmost pin and the bottom most pin is called return, which is ground. So pin one and pin two is in fact, common ground, so that's good. And then the second pin here is negative 12. So that's number four and that is in fact a negative V out. And then the, like whatever, four o'clock pin is plus 12 volts. So that's number five and that's the positive voltage. And then the rightmost pin at three o'clock is plus five volts. And yeah, pin three is five volts. So yeah, this power supply will do the job quite well. So this is my pick for the great search. The great search.