Hey everyone! As you have heard me talk about on the show a number of times, my RGB light-sixer has been down for the count for a few months now. I've done all I can with the knowledge and skills I have, which consist of poor soldering skills that didn't help anything.
Thankfully @Nathan Strum has graciously offered his help to see if he's able to diagnose the issue and get it up and running again! In the mean time @Albert has sent me his S-Video modded four switch that we used for t
I shut the monitor off during the test.
And with that...
Chapter 4!
(Yeah, that intro does not bode well.)
So, the first thing to check on the mod (being the simplest to fix) was the mini-DIN connector used for the video output. The short appeared across +5 v and Ground there too.
The easiest thing to do would've been to cut the wires, but I desoldered them instead.
After that, there was no short pre