Here is an image of my current wiring of a FC Game Console to a Hip Gear Screen.
The system works fine on it's own, however when I turn on the screen it sucks the power away from the system turning it off and there is no image on the screen. Also I have an obnoxious hum coming from the speakers. I'm sure none of that is good, however I'm not sure how to fix this. Could it be a problem with my soldering or just wired it wrong all together and fried the screen? Oh yeah I'm assuming people know details about the screen.
- Screen works, only as an input device (tested it on DV cam)
- Screen only works when there is a headphone plugged into it, but there is still an obnoxious hum
- Turning on game system scrambles video
- Still no audio from speakers
Does anyone have an idea of what's going on here before I end up frying something?
Alright here's another update, *sigh* okay I could not figure out what was wrong with it so I just powered it with some batteries and it worked fine. For whatever reason it absolutely HAS to run off batteries. I was originally using the wall outlet in an attempt to save battery power while working out all of the bugs.
Another interesting problem I encountered is that one of the speakers gets unbelievably hot. I checked to see if there was a short or something but there was nothing. Is it just that I'm using too much juice? I have 8 AA's totalling 12V (give or take a decimal number.) The outlet states 9V, but again I'd like to fix the problem before I fry something.
Tendoman wrote:Alright here's another update, *sigh* okay I could not figure out what was wrong with it so I just powered it with some batteries and it worked fine. For whatever reason it absolutely HAS to run off batteries. I was originally using the wall outlet in an attempt to save battery power while working out all of the bugs.
Another interesting problem I encountered is that one of the speakers gets unbelievably hot. I checked to see if there was a short or something but there was nothing. Is it just that I'm using too much juice? I have 8 AA's totalling 12V (give or take a decimal number.) The outlet states 9V, but again I'd like to fix the problem before I fry something.
yea, i reached that conclusion too... i was intially running off a variable AC to DC wall adapter b/c i didn't want too test using just batteries.. i'd go through sooo many AAs if i went that route and i got the same hum from the audio out, and weird scan lines on the display. however, when hooked up to batteries.. it wall went away. i guess not all wall adapters actually output that clean of a DC signal. my "suggestion" is that its safe to run off the ac/dc wall adapter but just run it at enough voltage that the components will consume.
