Sharp Famicom Twin AN-500B Red Flash Power Light - Broken?

[eDrinker]

Hello,

I bought an untested Sharp Famicom Twin AN-500B from ebay.

I also bought a power supply from: http://en.retrogamesupply.com/products/power-supply-for-nintendo-sharp-twin-famicom

I live in Spain

When I press the power button, I can see a flash on the led light before slowing dimming to off.

I would guess that either the power supply isn't good enough or it doesn't work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Oz

[2A03]

That's not the power LED, that's the disk access LED which only lights up when a disk is being read or written to.

[eDrinker]

Hi,

Ok that's good to know, it only lights up once when I press power and then dims out.

How do I know if I have power to it?
Does it have a start sequence even if I don't use a cart?
I was using the RF lead that came with my megadrive as I thought its just a standard RF lead.
I have another RF lead with no little box that flicks between TV and Console which I could also try. I think that one came with the Saturn.

Again thanks for your advice.

Oliver

[Pikkon]

Just hook up your twin using composite,that should work.

[P]

If the LED lights up, it gets power. But it only lights up when the disk drive is using power though, which is only when it's either reading from or writing to a disk (and briefly when powering it on apparently). Not when playing a disk game after it has loaded.

If you power it on in FDS mode the FDS BIOS should boot up, no matter if you have a disk or not. I don't think the Twin uses RF, you use RCA composite cables as Pikkon said.

[eDrinker]

Thank you.

I first got a white screen so I knew it wasn't totally dead.

A few restarts and compressed air blasts later it came to life.

Composite worked cheers.