Title: Get it working
Post by: guest4873 on November 23, 2014, 22:43:12 PM
Post by: guest4873 on November 23, 2014, 22:43:12 PM
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:
(http://www.totalhumour.com/stuff/working.jpg)
Looking better now than it ever did, well worth the time to do this little mod.
Cheers,
Mike
(http://www.totalhumour.com/stuff/working.jpg)
Looking better now than it ever did, well worth the time to do this little mod.
Cheers,
Mike
Title: Re: Get it working
Post by: Lorfarius on November 23, 2014, 23:06:22 PM
Post by: Lorfarius on November 23, 2014, 23:06:22 PM
Was the soldering difficult?
Title: Re: Get it working
Post by: guest4873 on November 23, 2014, 23:47:37 PM
Post by: guest4873 on November 23, 2014, 23:47:37 PM
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/ (//http)
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/ (//http)
Title: Re: Get it working
Post by: zapiy on November 24, 2014, 18:41:46 PM
Post by: zapiy on November 24, 2014, 18:41:46 PM
Thats what i like to see, people fixing or modding retro gear.
Great work Mike and thanks for sharing.
Great work Mike and thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Get it working
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on December 20, 2015, 14:35:16 PM
Post by: dougtitchmarsh on December 20, 2015, 14:35:16 PM
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 (http://youtu.be/0dbNowKZ00g)
http://youtu.be/0dbNowKZ00g (http://youtu.be/0dbNowKZ00g)