Solution for external Flicker fixer?

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Just made a new cable, soldered it straight to the board and put everything in a box. I'm satisfied with the quality, snow included, but yes, I guess that better insulation would probably make the difference!
 
Just a weird thought but does anyone have access to those ferrite beads (or whatever they are called) and might that help the snow at all??

I have no snow on mine at all and my VGA cable is the thicker style (more shielding) and has dual Ferrite cores (1 at each end).

I threw a Ferrite core (I have a few lying around) onto the cable from the Miggy at the base of the GBS connector and it made no difference to my PQ so I assume the VGA cable is doing it's thing and doesnt need any help.

PS, I have the GBS-8220.
 
Mounting Idea

Mounting Idea

Hi Guys
Not sure if anyone has done this or not already but here goes:

Take an old VGA Card backing plate and either cut in half or dremmel out the second VGA port if your card has two then mount in standard pci expansion bay.

Its nice and tidy and out of the way plus safe from being shorted out on the base of the case.

See pics:



Hope this helps


Al
 

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Great idea Cugar124. I had a similar idea to add an adaptor plate to my A4000 so the GBS could sit underneath the m-ATX PSU. Haven't got round to it yet though. :whistle:
 
Nice one, cugar124. I think I will do something similar. How are you powering your GBS board, are you connecting to the Amiga PSU or an external one?

Edit: ah, just saw the second picture which doesn't have an external PSU connected. Are you using a molex connector?
 
i completely forgot about this thread,heres something i knocked up months ago.

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and the back with buttons.


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if anyone is wondering,its got an automatic switch built into it to switch between rtg and aga modes.:)
theres two leds one for aga mode and the others for rtg.
 
I've ordered one of these babies.... but I'm about as savvy with cables and a soldering iron as I am with the finer intricacies of thermal dynamics....

Would anyone be able to rustle me up an RBG > PCB cable for this beauty?

Many thanks in advance :D
 
@stoo

it should come with the cable that plugs into the gbs,you just need a 23 pin plug for the amigas rgb port.
 
@stoo

it should come with the cable that plugs into the gbs,you just need a 23 pin plug for the amigas rgb port.

I'm not very confident on soldering it up correctly but I'll have a go... :wooha:
 
Hi Guys Sorry been busy I have mine powered from the PSU its just a standard Molex adapter
 
Hi I have a question regarding supplying the power to GBS. I'd like to get rid of external PSU. I know that +5V on 23 pin in monitor connector is not enough, but is it possible/harmful to connect directly (inside Amiga on motherboard) this 23rd pin with +5V in PSU socket?
 
Hi I have a question regarding supplying the power to GBS. I'd like to get rid of external PSU. I know that +5V on 23 pin in monitor connector is not enough, but is it possible/harmful to connect directly (inside Amiga on motherboard) this 23rd pin with +5V in PSU socket?



you could use power from either the floppy connector or solder to the back of the power jack,thats of course if the power supply is up to the task.

if your using the gbs externally you may as well stick to the psu you got for it.

oh and welcome,why dont you introduce yourself in the new members area.:)
 
Hi,

Firstly has anyone seen / used one of these? Seems like an interesting and nicely boxed solution, but I wonder what the quality is like.

Secondly, the person that is selling the cased GBA8220's on eBay here is using the 5V power source from the video port on the Amiga. The general consensus here is that this would be a potentially bad idea, is this ignorance on their part or are we missing something?

-(e)
 
The draw required for those units is more than double the rated supply on the 5v line from the Amiga so yes it's a really bad idea.

The quality of the GBS units is reasonable for something so cheap but I wouldn't pay what is being asked for the cased units, the quality of the gbs is just not worth that kind of money.
 
The draw required for those units is more than double the rated supply on the 5v line from the Amiga so yes it's a really bad idea.

The quality of the GBS units is reasonable for something so cheap but I wouldn't pay what is being asked for the cased units, the quality of the gbs is just not worth that kind of money.

Thought that was the case :roll:. Did you see the other option I pointed out?
-(e)
 
I doubt it's ignorance, more likely they don't care if they damage your Amiga!

---------- Post added at 17:56 ---------- Previous post was at 16:51 ----------

Btw, I've decided the gbs, even with cap and resistor mods, is no longer good enuf for me and I've ordered this one to replace it as it seems to be a far better bit of equipment:

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com.au/viewitem?itemId=120457605985&index=0&nav=SEARCH&nid=30733816244

I'll post what it's like when I get it and do some comparison pics.
 
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