root42 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 I modded my Vader about a year ago with a simple single transistor composite out mod. The quality is okay, but I currently have some artifacts, like horizontal bands running up the screen. See attached video... What measures are useful in minimizing those artifacts? Better video cables? Shielding the internal wiring? Putting ferrite cores around the cables? Or a different mod altogether? IMG_7241.MOV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tavi Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 54 minutes ago, root42 said: I modded my Vader about a year ago with a simple single transistor composite out mod. The quality is okay, but I currently have some artifacts, like horizontal bands running up the screen. See attached video... What measures are useful in minimizing those artifacts? Better video cables? Shielding the internal wiring? Putting ferrite cores around the cables? Or a different mod altogether? IMG_7241.MOV For some reason your video shows up as an audio-only clip on my computer? But I would suggest that trying a better video cable is an excellent place to start for interference problems. From personal experience I found a lot of my RCA cable problems came from less-then-great quality cables. You might try just moving the cables around a bit as well, as the current routing might have it too close to something it is picking up some signal noise from? I find that can help as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 You will notice a difference in this from one TV to the next. Some TV's will have this others will not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azure Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 A few things that helped my video. I wrapped the video cable around a ferret core a few times and tucked it inside the 2600 case. I moved the Atari and CRT further away from my flat screen TV. The CRT itself was putting out some interference, so moving the Atari and cable around helped. I've noticed some of my light bulbs were RF noisy. Try turning off nearby lamps. Turn off any fans. Some of your electronics might be putting out radio noise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
root42 Posted March 26, 2020 Author Share Posted March 26, 2020 Thanks for all the great hints! I will test them all out. After all this is no HUGE deal, since the console is almost 40 years old and uses analog video. So I don’t expect a noise free picture. But of course I want to have a decent picture quality anyway... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChildOfCv Posted March 26, 2020 Share Posted March 26, 2020 22 hours ago, azure said: I wrapped the video cable around a ferret core a few times and tucked it inside the 2600 case. I bet the ferret wasn't happy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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