Re: TED colors

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:13:21 +0200
Message-ID: <12835134-7db3-d655-2597-abc456553d91_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 6/10/20 10:03 AM, Istvan Hegedus wrote:
> 
>     There's also a small design flaw in all 264 series machines: there is a
>     ferrite bead in series with the common ground point of the video out
>     port, which (i.e. the common point that has non-negligible resistance
>     above the 1-2MHz mark) causes crosstalk between the signals. (This is
>     the main reason why the separate luma-chroma output image of these
>     machines looks bad... there is so much crosstalk between luma and chroma
>     that it introduces visible moire on the image). All in all... if you
>     want to get rid of a disturbance factor, find and short the FB between
>     the machine's and the socket's ground.
> 
> The crosstalk is bad on the composite output too.  Even using the 
> Philips CM8833 it is terrible. When I was kid I did not bother, but now 
> I can see it.
> I will try this FB short to see whether it improves signal.

It did here, quite a bit. Finally I get a real greyscale image if I use 
the luma signal as CVBS. Before the fix I got a color picture when doing 
that. Also the border color is now smooth, before the fix was able to 
see the color clock in it when using S-Video.

Just short the FB with a piece of wire on the underside of the PCB. 
Easily reversible that way.

On the C16 and C116 it's FB13 and on the Plus/4 it's FB7.

  Gerrit
Received on 2020-06-11 17:00:03

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