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Vanhal
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Screen Distortion

Post by Vanhal »

Right, got me a lm317bt, hooked it up and it turned on fine but there was kinda fuzzy gray noise accross the top of the screen. I Did a search here and see people had kinda the same problems with the TI. Anyone have any ideas?
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Post by Vanhal »

hmmm there seems to be less distrotion when i take out the expansion pack and use a non expansion game.
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Vanhal wrote:hmmm there seems to be less distrotion when i take out the expansion pack and use a non expansion game.
It might be that the lm317bt isn't providing quite enough amps, because I think the expansion pak draws more power. Are you using the lm317bt to power anything else, if so you could maybe remove that and see if it gets enough amps.
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Post by timmeh87 »

well the problem with TI convertes is related to them being a completely differnet kind of regulator (switching).

did you put capacitors on it?
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Post by Vanhal »

not powering anything else, and capaceters are there.
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