broken Coleco Telstar

[broken Coleco Telstar]

I have a desoldering iron.

[broken Coleco Telstar]

I wanna try to fix it myself. I think I need to open the RF shield.

[broken Coleco Telstar]

I know. The ring I stick the alan wrench into in that shaft has fallen down the shaft and is hard to reach now.

[broken Coleco Telstar]

Here is a video of the video problem.

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[broken Coleco Telstar]

Here is what the video looks like now. I want reliable equipment that works. This stupid Telstar, my Playstation one slim ,and that broken paddle with my ultra pong doubles why? I would like to remove the RF shield but it appears to be welded and one of the battery wires is connected to it.

[Can the Adam use expansion module 1]

A pic of the set-up

Oh it goes in sidways.

[playstation 1 slim audio but no video]

I don't see any beat pins.

[dead paddles on Ultra Pong Doubles]

I cleaned the pot. Wires don't look too bad. I think I have the wires in the wrong place. . Are they both supposed to go through the opening in the plastic bar by the opening in the paddle?

[playstation 1 slim audio but no video]

I hooked it up to the tv without the lcd screen connected and got no sound or picture. With LCD I get sound but no picture.

[playstation 1 slim audio but no video]

When I hooked it up to my TV there was no audio or video.

[dead paddles on Ultra Pong Doubles]

One of the paddle controllers that came with my Ultra Pong Doubles console doesn't work. The paddle won't move. I cleaned the pot and still it won't move. I tried it in all four ports and tried the ports with the other controllers and it won't work while the other controllers work in all ports. Should I just get a new controller?

[Adventure vs. Secret Quest]

Has anyone beaten Secret Quest. I can make it to the second or third level and then I run out of oxygen and energy.

[playstation 1 slim audio but no video]

My playstation 1 starts up. I hear the audio but the video doesn't work is there a fix for this?

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[broken Coleco Telstar]

Thanks for the pictures. It is hard to tell by the photo for sure but it looks to me the two solder joints(ground on the RF jack the two outer pins) may need reflowing, as well as another joint looking at the back side of the board it is to the left in the picture of the other two joints I was talking about, near the corner of the RF box. It is one of the joints on the blue potentiometer. Reflow the joints on the jack and all three on the pot.

 

EDIT:

Also too looking at the back side of the board, same orientation from photo with the RF box to top. From the middle tab of on the RF box, straight down 2nd and 3rd solder joints, reflow those as well. Also the solder joint closest to the left of the RF box looking at the board the same way. Also look for any I missed that may be cracked or where you see a gap between the lead and solder, and reflow them. I say reflow but if you have the tools to desolder and then resolder them all that would be better.

Do you mean I hold the soldering iron to the solder to melt it or add new solder?

[Star Raiders 2600 - RU a fan of this conversion?]

I played and beat it a lot back in the day We had the touch pad controller and the overlay that came with it. atari 8-but and atari 5200 versions look a lot like starmaster.

[broken Coleco Telstar]

Okay I got the board out and it is bent a little The RF shield has one of the battery connections on it. I am afraid there might be a wire inside running from the shield to the top of the shield. What is the blue thing that turns next to the RF shield? It changes the picture a little

[broken Coleco Telstar]

Soldered the wires to the speaker and now the sound works. Still can't clear up the picture. It goes from nearly clear to scrambled over time by itself.

[Can the Adam use expansion module 1]

Can the stand alone Adam use expansion module 1 to play atari 2600 games.

[RetroN 77]

I would be afraid of people dumping homebrews with the thing. Attwong ought a be afraid of kids on Youtube using it to dump Haunted Adventure Trilogy and finding the ultimate easter egg by hacking the game which he doesn't want people to do.

[broken Coleco Telstar]

This is how I tune the rf box it also acts as a channel select I taped the wires to the speaker and the sound worked until I put the unit back together. Tomorrow I will find a way to cut the insulation off the wires so I can solider them back on. Ebay seller didn't say the speaker fell off and the speaker wires were broken. If I push the alan wrench all they down and it touches the bottom of the shielding the graphics get garbled and when I think the picture is nearly cleared up it gets messed up when I pull the wrench out.

[broken Coleco Telstar]

I used a bigger screwdriver and got that sucker out. I'll remove the circuit board tomorrow and look at the bottom of it. Used the same big screwdrivier to open up that jakks activision plug and play I got from Goodwill Friday. A couple of batteries in it had an accident and I had to clean it out. I am leaving it overnight to dry.

[broken Coleco Telstar]

The picture was snowy when I turned it on today. After I tuned the rf box it got like the second photo which is where it was when I unplugged it yesterday. It keeps going back to a snowy picture until I tune it. There is a photo of the screwdriver I am using to try to undo the screw. It just won't turn no matter how much force I put on it.

[New power supplies for the ColecoVision?]

My CV power supply has had some issues over the last few years, or at least I have come to believe it's the culprit. I have an rgb mod which I use with the xrgb miniframemeister, and sometimes the fantastic colors can be muted, dark, or just wrong. Wiggling the power cable where it connects into the CV can help or cause it to shut off altogether. I have seen power supplies sold online claiming to work for multiple systems, but have been nervous to try them for years, worrying about the fragility of my modded system. Can anyone chime in about newly made power supplies, or should I just send my CV back in to get the $50 power mod? I've been putting off a solution to this for a while since my system still works, but it can make me sad sometimes to see my CV, which I have put decent money into, not perform as well as it should.

I have the same issues and I am on my second power supply. If you think Colecovision power supplies are bad Commodore 64 power supplies can kill a Commodore 64 because the voltage outage suddenly goes bad and they can't be fixed because the components are covered in epoxy

[broken Coleco Telstar]

So is it one of the screws holding the circuit board that you can't get out? Take a picture of the screw.

It is one of the screws holding the case together. I took a photo of the circuit board to show the rf box that is problematic.

[broken Coleco Telstar]

I got the telstar open enough to adjust the rf and I can't clear the picture up. When I plug it in the next there is no picture just snow and I have to adjust the rf box again. The glue that held the speaker in place broke at some point and that is why the speaker came lose. When I put an Alan wrench in the hole on the right side of the rf box and turn it I can clear up the picture a little.