sweetlilmre
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My question to the seller:
And his feedback:
And his feedback:
Solution for external Flicker fixer?
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My question to the seller:
And his feedback:
yes but will he disconnect the power wiring from the rgb connector before shipping the unit complete with external supply
p.s should of asked: are you willing to pay for repairs to any amiga if it blows the ferrite beads on the rgb port:roll:
volatileFreak
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Hi,
Just thought I'd throw in my experiences with the GBS-8220 after reading through this thread and deciding to take the plunge...
I've connected the GBS-8220 to a stock A1200 using the cable that comes with the board. I soldered on my DB23 connector from my old home-made RGB->SCART connector (first bit of soldering in many many moons but surprisingly easy
). I used the diagram posted by johnim earlier in this thread (#41). I didn't use any resistors either.
The board was then connected to 4:3 VGA monitor using it's attached cable and powered using an external 5V/2A power supply and, well, everything worked and you can colour me impressed
.
The quality is good, not perfect, but for the price I think it's a great, cheap solution. The only tweaking I had to do was to the screen dimensions through the menu but that's it.
There is a little bit of ghosting around the mouse cursor as has been mentioned before.
That is all, have a nice day.
volatileFreak.
Just thought I'd throw in my experiences with the GBS-8220 after reading through this thread and deciding to take the plunge...
I've connected the GBS-8220 to a stock A1200 using the cable that comes with the board. I soldered on my DB23 connector from my old home-made RGB->SCART connector (first bit of soldering in many many moons but surprisingly easy
). I used the diagram posted by johnim earlier in this thread (#41). I didn't use any resistors either.The board was then connected to 4:3 VGA monitor using it's attached cable and powered using an external 5V/2A power supply and, well, everything worked and you can colour me impressed
.The quality is good, not perfect, but for the price I think it's a great, cheap solution. The only tweaking I had to do was to the screen dimensions through the menu but that's it.
There is a little bit of ghosting around the mouse cursor as has been mentioned before.
That is all, have a nice day.
volatileFreak.
sweetlilmre
Member
yes but will he disconnect the power wiring from the rgb connector before shipping the unit complete with external supply
p.s should of asked: are you willing to pay for repairs to any amiga if it blows the ferrite beads on the rgb port:roll:
Seems our eBay guy reads this forum:
yes but will he disconnect the power wiring from the rgb connector before shipping the unit complete with external supply
p.s should of asked: are you willing to pay for repairs to any amiga if it blows the ferrite beads on the rgb port:roll:
Seems our eBay guy reads this forum:
i would say it wasent safe,clearly the guy doesent look at the schematics for the motherboards.
or the ratings of the gbs.
there are also claims in these sales that the person who puts them together is an qualified engineer,i think that cant be true as it would not be passed by one who could read the schematics.
i wouldent be able to make such outlandish claims myself for someone elses systems.
at the end of the day,if your willing to pay such an amount for what's inside the case,wich is a cheap board made in china with cheap components to hook it up and a massive markup its upto you.even if the case does seem very nice to some.
and for that sort of money i would be expecting the correct power supply for the device in the package at no extra cost.and not just a cheesy amiga printed off sticker on a "black" box and it should include a vga lead so its a complete setup.
its more likely the person wired it to the rgb port to save on an outlay for the power supply,and was scared it would eat into there profits by supplying one.
it also says there extremely "rare" like most ebay sellers "dedicated" to amiga's,just type in gbs8200 or gbs8220 into ebay's seach engine to see exactly how "rare" these really are.
to say this person was an opitunist would be an understatement,clearly this person is making these for as much profit as he can make.the person could make them for half that and still making money but no.
theres an old saying,a fool and his money...
i would even go so far as to say the person was in the same league as the peaple who sell cf cards on ebay with all the whdload installs with a pirate key.under the pretense its "freeware" and would be no less than a conman and a ripoff merchant in one.
the person will probably read all this and then say "hey look at my positive feedback rating" as a feeble excuse in reponse.because there is nothing to add in reality,pah i laugh in face at such jokers.
and yes i have nothing but complete contempt for these type of
peaple
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Yeah just received it
Now to not scr** up something does old VGA cards have the +5V on them....
---------- Post added at 17:02 ---------- Previous post was at 16:44 ----------
PS. what the polarity for the external PSU? +----*)---- - or the + on the edge?
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Ok the board have a broken path on the PCB so.... good chinese product....
Now to not scr** up something
does old VGA cards have the +5V on them....---------- Post added at 17:02 ---------- Previous post was at 16:44 ----------
PS. what the polarity for the external PSU? +----*)---- - or the + on the edge?
---------- Post added at 17:10 ---------- Previous post was at 17:02 ----------
Ok the board have a broken path on the PCB so.... good chinese product....
Doesn't matter now the board is defective..... I won't even try to connect it to a PSU...
Gosh they don't even look at it....
PS. johnim thanks for your help
PS. Resending it waiting for another one, one month of waiting....
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Gosh they don't even look at it....
PS. johnim thanks for your help
PS. Resending it waiting for another one, one month of waiting....
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Maybe, but if I'll touch something on the board they won't exchange it blaming on me and I have no warranty that if I'll repair the track it will work - they might be other failures. And for God sake, I know that it's not a fortune, but I payed for a fully functional device. I know that sometimes they might be a invisible defect during production process (ICs, resistors, condensators failure) but this... Come on...
icard
icard
Just had a look at an A500, rev 6A motherboard, and I see no reason the video port couldn't supply the 500ma required by the GBS.
The only potential risk I see, is the track between the video port and ferrite bead is a tad thin, but I don't think it would be an issue.
Worst case scenario is you burn through the track, and would have to solder a piece of wire across it.
Having said this though, if you want to run the GBS off the video port, you do it at your own risk.
The only potential risk I see, is the track between the video port and ferrite bead is a tad thin, but I don't think it would be an issue.
Worst case scenario is you burn through the track, and would have to solder a piece of wire across it.
Having said this though, if you want to run the GBS off the video port, you do it at your own risk.
Hi,
Awaiting for a working device, with the cables that I recieved I made a DB-23 to 5 pin cable (the connector that is just close to the VGA port) . I took the connections schemtics from few post above. How do you think, I I'll connect amiga to the cited port, will it work?
Awaiting for a working device, with the cables that I recieved I made a DB-23 to 5 pin cable (the connector that is just close to the VGA port) . I took the connections schemtics from few post above. How do you think, I I'll connect amiga to the cited port, will it work?
sweetlilmre
Member
Hi all,
This seems to have got lost in the responses to my post about the guy selling the cased GBA8220's off ebay with power supplied by the miggy, so:
These look really nice:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/15Khz-RGB-RGsB-RGBS-VGA-Converter-LCD-Monitor-/230754149562
Anyone have any info on them?
Was thinking of getting one just to see, but bonus month is a bit far away and I've pretty much blown the budget on Amigas for a bit (2x A1200 and 1xA500, 8MB Fast Ram for the A500, HxC etc..) oh boy...
This seems to have got lost in the responses to my post about the guy selling the cased GBA8220's off ebay with power supplied by the miggy, so:
These look really nice:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/15Khz-RGB-RGsB-RGBS-VGA-Converter-LCD-Monitor-/230754149562
Anyone have any info on them?
Was thinking of getting one just to see, but bonus month is a bit far away and I've pretty much blown the budget on Amigas for a bit (2x A1200 and 1xA500, 8MB Fast Ram for the A500, HxC etc..) oh boy...
