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Icky wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:17 am If you have an H5 @exxos added jumpers to accommodate this board so no track cutting necessary on the H5 :)
Yep, thats my delay in testing out the scan doubler
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Yeah, I saw that! Looks like you guys are pretty close to having your H5s up and running too! Pretty cool :D

I can make specific H5 versions of the PCB eventually also.
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@Smonson @Icky so now I have my B1 running, how to actually wire it in ?
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exxos wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:13 am @Smonson @Icky so now I have my B1 running, how to actually wire it in ?
Cool, congrats on the B1 :)

Check my preliminary instructions on smonson.com (third bullet off the front page, I forgot to fix the direct link, sorry!)

EDIT: Fixed the linking bug, the instructions are here.
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Ah yep remember that page now.. I guess I should fit a VGA socket then :lol:
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heh :lol:

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Though not got the blanking wire connected.. and feeding the video into the scart on my TV as was just doing it for shits and giggles :lol:

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Even odder...

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Well. At least the picture quality seems good!

The first one looks like you've got the doubled video data, but with the old 15KHz HSYNC timing.

The second one seems better, I take it you haven't disconnected BLANK - if you lift that resistor and tie the loose end to +5v it should fix that, I think (just lifting it and leaving it disconnected would probably be enough).
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Smonson wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:23 pm The first one looks like you've got the doubled video data, but with the old 15KHz HSYNC timing.
Yeah probably as it was RGB scart input on my TV..
Smonson wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:23 pm The second one seems better, I take it you haven't disconnected BLANK - if you lift that resistor and tie the loose end to +5v it should fix that, I think (just lifting it and leaving it disconnected would probably be enough).
This is on a H5 so not sure how it wires in... I have tried feeding the blanking wire to the DAC blanking and leaving it disconnected, only thing it did was generate a black bar towards the bottom of the screen which was bouncing up and down.
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That's odd, if you've disconnected the original blank signal from the glue chip, it should look fine. The black comb down the left side, I assume, is the original horizontal blank, kicking in at the start of every second line where the old hsync was.
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Smonson wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 1:59 pm That's odd, if you've disconnected the original blank signal from the glue chip, it should look fine. The black comb down the left side, I assume, is the original horizontal blank, kicking in at the start of every second line where the old hsync was.
Yeah, theres a jumper on the H5 to break the Hsync line.. So GLUE > Hsync in, Hsyout out to where glue was broken..

If you look at the first image I posted the colours show how its wired..
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