Get it working

[guest4873]

A few months ago I got my ZX Spectrum out for the first time in a while, only to find that when I started it up the picture on the TV through the RF output was totally unusable  :113:


Looking better now than it ever did, well worth the time to do this little mod.

Cheers,
Mike

[Lorfarius]

Was the soldering difficult?

[guest4873]

No the soldering was easy, one bit to remove a resistor and then just either end of the black wire you can see in the picture.
Getting the lid of the RF modulator was the tricky bit!

I have seen some instructions that say to add a capacitor in, but I didn't and it works fine.

This page shows how to do it:
http://www.jammarcade.net/zx-spectrum-composite-video-mod/

[zapiy]

Thats what i like to see, people fixing or modding retro gear.

Great work Mike and thanks for sharing.

[dougtitchmarsh]

Great to see more Spectrums getting repaired, I have composite modded a couple of Speccys now, as well as some other repairs, I used the video by Mark Fixes Stuff to find out how.

http://youtu.be/0dbNowKZ00g