I followed the mod perfectly. It looked okay I guess, good enough to play, but not nearly as good as the fluorescent. (Thats just my opinion, I'm pretty picky). I suppose larger mcd LED's and some aluminum foil could clear it up a bit. I might try that later.marshallh wrote:You must not be doing the LED mod right, I did it and it works great - almost as good as the CCFL.
There's probably not much difference at all between the 10 and 22 ohm resistors - they wouldn't make that much of a difference.
That's what I thought. So to see if that was the problem, I made a seperate 7.2V battery just for the screen, and a 9.6V for the N64. It still had the distortion! The really weird thing is I used the AV output to hook up another TV to see if the distortion showed up there too. It didn't, it looked fine! And when I use a different video source (I used my DC) on the PSone screen it looks perfect on it! (so it's not the screen)marshallh wrote:G-force - I think you problem here is you're just flat out pulling too much juice from the AA cells. They're just not made to handle a 2amp+ discharge rate... only for stuff like digital cameras. RC car batteries on the other hand are made to discharge at up to 20 amps.
I had the same exact problem as yours when I ran the TI regulator and my N64 off 10 AA batteries - the batteries got quite hot and the voltage sagged.
Time for bigger batteries.
And I tried using three different kinds of batterys just to be sure. Alkaline AA's, 2700 mah Ni-Mh AA's, and my 15 minute Ni-Mh AA's, and even a 12V lead acid (with a regulator for the screen)! All produced the same results.
I tried using a different 3.3V TI converter (I had an extra). It acted the same as the other. I even tried a bigger output cap just for the heck of it. Maybe I'll try using a 3.3V regulator just to see if that makes a difference.
I'm really out of ideas... Everything appears to be running perfect, except for these wavy lines across the screen, of which I have no idea where they are coming from.
Help!?