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Old 10-02-2023, 07:41 AM
Pjaska Pjaska is offline
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Hello and thank you all my friends!
I got the capacitor for horizontal deflection. Image got little bit wider then with original capacitor and its not heating up like the electrolytic ones. Pincushion is still there but its much more tolerable now with proper overscan:










I tryed using gluable little magnets to it but i didnt get it any better. Maybe i try that in later episodes.. It is now having some interfierence lines on the picture after turning the tv on. They are usually black and may have some rainbow color parts too... They go away after some time or if i turn brightness and contrast down a little. They like appearing on bright light screens. I noticed this first time when i was messing with the capacitors, i dont know if they where there before me or not. I used to have it low on brightness becouse the black looks so gray, now after recapping and adjusting it i can have black look better in brighter settings. Do you guys think this is dangerous or bad for my tv? I havent build the degaussing tool yet..
Edit: interfierence looks like went gone when i reassembled the plastics. Maybe something was too close for wrong wire who knows time will tell...





I have spend so much time with this little tv now that my wife says i can sleep on the couch with convergence and geometry if i dont come back to real life now so i think i will have a little break with the project for now













Its cool how it is so close with the footprint of famicom. Now i can take it with me and my AV and USB modded famicom and we can all play outside (or next to a car at least) to the sunset


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Old 10-02-2023, 02:58 PM
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Hello and thank you all my friends!
I got the capacitor for horizontal deflection. Image got little bit wider then with original capacitor and its not heating up like the electrolytic ones. Pincushion is still there but its much more tolerable now with proper overscan:










I tryed using gluable little magnets to it but i didnt get it any better. Maybe i try that in later episodes.. It is now having some interfierence lines on the picture after turning the tv on. They are usually black and may have some rainbow color parts too... They go away after some time or if i turn brightness and contrast down a little. They like appearing on bright light screens. I noticed this first time when i was messing with the capacitors, i dont know if they where there before me or not. I used to have it low on brightness becouse the black looks so gray, now after recapping and adjusting it i can have black look better in brighter settings. Do you guys think this is dangerous or bad for my tv? I havent build the degaussing tool yet..
Edit: interfierence looks like went gone when i reassembled the plastics. Maybe something was too close for wrong wire who knows time will tell...





I have spend so much time with this little tv now that my wife says i can sleep on the couch with convergence and geometry if i dont come back to real life now so i think i will have a little break with the project for now













Its cool how it is so close with the footprint of famicom. Now i can take it with me and my AV and USB modded famicom and we can all play outside (or next to a car at least) to the sunset

Family Game? I believed they had only been sold in the third world. I had one.
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Old 10-02-2023, 10:26 PM
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Yes, i imported from japan. Here we had toaster NES but if you look closely you see that the "european versio" is scratch off with a pen becouse its really usa ntsc model that had no lid. Tv is also ntsc and imported from japan. I live in Finland (europe) our old game system have the "pal curse" the games are slowed down from ntsc 60hz to work with pal 50hz so they are like slow motion movie scene.
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Old 10-03-2023, 03:00 PM
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Yes, i imported from japan. Here we had toaster NES but if you look closely you see that the "european versio" is scratch off with a pen becouse its really usa ntsc model that had no lid. Tv is also ntsc and imported from japan. I live in Finland (europe) our old game system have the "pal curse" the games are slowed down from ntsc 60hz to work with pal 50hz so they are like slow motion movie scene.
I think it displays much better on that mini TV than on my mini TVs. What CRT does it uses? Shadow masks are all of the same "pixel" size? Maybe ist a monitor CRT?
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Old 10-04-2023, 09:01 AM
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+1, I'm also pretty sure to have seen one of these color 5" with larger phosphour size (I can assum not all being equal).
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Old 10-04-2023, 11:27 AM
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I think it was labeled as 6" somewhere.



Here is update on where we are today: i see that the old photos are not available, shame. The tv is now having new shiny plastic for the screen and i also had made a new sticker for it. Tv also at one point started again making noise and black horizontal lines would come back again when cranking up the brightness or contrast knob. I wiggled all the connections and some times this seemed to effect. Then i took my soldering iron and re soldered the ground wire for tube, didnt help, then i re soldered every big connection at the neck board and after that i could again go high with brightness and contrast and no problems!









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Old 03-31-2025, 01:42 PM
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My little tv went viral: https://www.songbirdfx.com/how-to-po...oles-anywhere/
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