screen distortion due to audio

soxinrevin · Post by **soxinrevin** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:22 am

I plug in my audio and whenever there is a part with sound the screen gets distorted the the system restarts.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

soxinrevin · Post by **soxinrevin** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:01 pm

please help me!!! also when the snes plays for a little while the bottom left side of the screen gets brighter and brighter then the system resets over and over.

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:05 pm

seems like a cap that loads and load and then finnally snap. and somehow creates a short.

Rekarp · Post by **Rekarp** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:05 pm

are you using the psone screen? Try recharging your batteries.

soxinrevin · Post by **soxinrevin** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:25 pm

I'm using plain old AAs and they are fine

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:35 pm

soxinrevin wrote:I'm using plain old AAs and they are fine

So it works fine without sound? My guess is that the AAs can't provide enough power for everything, maybe try a wall adapter.

soxinrevin · Post by **soxinrevin** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:05 pm

i started using the wall adapter and everything was fixed thanks

soxinrevin · Post by **soxinrevin** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:39 pm

alright everything works now but when i start to use the 6 AA batteries I have (not rechargable) the same problem starts to occur.

What can be the solution?

hagensieker · Post by **hagensieker** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:41 pm

Then thats probably too much power.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:46 pm

hagensieker wrote:Then thats probably too much power.

Yeah, better batteries are what you need. The 7.2v 3300mAh NiMH RC battery from Radioshack is a good battery.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:43 pm

The answer is not ENOUGH power.

Alkaline batteries can only output so much current. The sound causes more current to be drawn, and since the video isn't regulated on the PSOne screen, the voltage drop causes the distortion.

Rechargeable batteries will work. Or put 12 AA's in parallel. 6 and 6. But that's overkill.

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:54 pm

get some 2500mah ni-mh rechargables

soxinrevin · Post by **soxinrevin** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:20 pm

How many rechargables? and also wouldn't that overpower the psone screen?(if using 6 2600ma AA batteries)

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:51 pm

soxinrevin wrote:How many rechargables? and also wouldn't that overpower the psone screen?(if using 6 2600ma AA batteries)

6 rechargeables = 7.2v which is okay for the PSone screen.

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:08 pm

6 alkaline AAs is too much voltage for the psone screen which makes the video distorted
it happened to me before when i used a 9.6v battery from radioshack
i might cut up that battery cause 9.6v is just a bad voltage