Noise on a composite video mod? Impossible!?! Read on...

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Noise on a composite video mod? Impossible!?! Read on...

Post by Dragnerok X »

Well, in case you haven't noticed, I'm new here, but some of you may know me from my account at Atariage, so well... hi! :mrgreen:

On to the point. I'm not making a portable, but I have some pretty serious composite video modding going on. My design could, technically, be considered similar to ben's original 2600 mod, except, of course, it uses stationary resistors instead of adjustable potentiometers. Why? It forms a much solider D->A conversion, and in theory, shouldn't require any adjustment. Thus far, this converter uses 1.5, 2.7, and 5.6k resistors respectively. Besides that, though, it's nearly identical.

Now my problem. For some strange reason I seem to be getting what could be called "noise" in my mod. No dots across the screen, no faking out after a few minutes, no ghosting. What it is, could basically be described as "faint vertical lines" stationary across my image. Not really "tearing" through it, but just enough to be annoying.

So here comes my question. 1. Has anyone else expierianced this? and 2. How can I fix this?

Thank you for your time.
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If I remember correctly, yes I've experienced the same thing. However, my Atari project has been put on hold for some time now so it just sits there with it's composite video mod and utter lack of a case. I don't recall any threads addressing this particular problem (no recent ones anyway) but I'll look again.
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Post by Dragnerok X »

If I remember correctly, yes I've experienced the same thing. However, my Atari project has been put on hold for some time now so it just sits there with it's composite video mod and utter lack of a case. I don't recall any threads addressing this particular problem (no recent ones anyway) but I'll look again.
Good. If you can find any more information on that, great. Could this problem be related to an in-accurate d -> A conversion? The native flaws of the composite video signal?
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Any ideas? I know this problem sounds kind of wierd, but even the slightest spark of an idea or comment could bring me to a solution.

In short: Help, please. :(
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Post by Dragnerok X »

Hmm...Just thought of this. I've heard that the 7805 (voltage regulator)was the cause of many interface-related problems. Could it be the cause of this?
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Well...I guess that's a no. :(
I'll probably just look elsewhere...
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