SirRockALot
n00b
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2017
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Hi all,
I'm just joining the ranks of AES owners. I got myself a US AES with a 20-35k serial number as those are supposed to have quality RGB output.
I use an original PSU through a stepdown converter and an RGB SCART cable of unknown quality (shielded one from RGC coming soon).
Now, I tried it first on a small crappy TV I use for testing, had some sever scrolling checkerboards. The kind you see when sync bleeds into RGB. On my larger main HDTV those are not visible, but the image looks dim. Like half-range.
The console looks good from the outside, was supposed to be unmodded apart from a set of stereo RCA jacks on the back. Kinda useless, but whatever.
I opened the sucker up, here:
https://imgur.com/a/NzEh9
Now this looks kinda weird to me. What exactly is this daughterboard? Why is there a wire from the daughterboard to a lifted pin of the video encoder chip?
Basically, could you tell me what exactly was done to this console, if it is one of the 'good' revisions, what can be done about the brightness issue.
Much appreciated!
I'm just joining the ranks of AES owners. I got myself a US AES with a 20-35k serial number as those are supposed to have quality RGB output.
I use an original PSU through a stepdown converter and an RGB SCART cable of unknown quality (shielded one from RGC coming soon).
Now, I tried it first on a small crappy TV I use for testing, had some sever scrolling checkerboards. The kind you see when sync bleeds into RGB. On my larger main HDTV those are not visible, but the image looks dim. Like half-range.
The console looks good from the outside, was supposed to be unmodded apart from a set of stereo RCA jacks on the back. Kinda useless, but whatever.
I opened the sucker up, here:
https://imgur.com/a/NzEh9
Now this looks kinda weird to me. What exactly is this daughterboard? Why is there a wire from the daughterboard to a lifted pin of the video encoder chip?
Basically, could you tell me what exactly was done to this console, if it is one of the 'good' revisions, what can be done about the brightness issue.
Much appreciated!