Currently Restoring Personal Console: Two Quick Questions

[Intellitendo]

Hi,

I just spend the better part of my evening working to install Crayola's Orange Peel RGB mod in my original Intellivision. In the ebay listing; it mentions that one may use the channel select switch to change palettes... Would this just take the form of disconnecting the traces from the switch, and running wires to the mod board? Or are there any additional steps/precautions I need to do/take?

Also, my power button cover went missing at some point. Is there an available STL file which I can print out?


Thanks!

[walldog1]

First question: No tracings need to be scraped off. Just run a single wire to the ground pad of palette select on the Orange Peel board to the channel 3/4 input leg solder joint to the RF Mod tracing. Channel 3 position will provide the path to ground on the Logic Board. Channel 4 position leaves that circuit to ground open. The shaky yellow line indicates where in the photo.

 

I can't help you with your second question. Is that a file for using on a 3D printer?

 

 

Edited June 28 by walldog1
clarification

[+-^CrossBow^-]

58 minutes ago, walldog1 said:

First question: No tracings need to be scraped off. Just run a single wire to the ground pad of palette select on the Orange Peel board to the channel 3/4 input leg solder joint to the RF Mod tracing.

 

Not from the ground pad, but the signal pad. The Ground pad is already..well grounded with the ground already in place on the RGB board. But the rest is correct. However, I would only suggest using that point on the board if you have the RF modulator removed otherwise I think there is a good chance of +5 feeding into the RGB board in a manner it doesn't expect. So if you do want to keep the RF modulator in place and working, I would honestly just install the separate toggle switch and go that way. If you remove the RF modulator, then the single wire method is a good way to go using the channel select swich.

 

[walldog1]

Crossbow's response is correct, and I was wrong. My error was with saying ground pad instead of the signal pad. And that I gut the RF Mod case when I do that.

 

Thank you Crossbow! I'll blame all the smoke I have been breathing in coming down from the Quebec Canada wildfires.

Edited June 28 by walldog1

[Intellitendo]

2 hours ago, -^CrossBow^- said:

Not from the ground pad, but the signal pad. The Ground pad is already..well grounded with the ground already in place on the RGB board. But the rest is correct. However, I would only suggest using that point on the board if you have the RF modulator removed otherwise I think there is a good chance of +5 feeding into the RGB board in a manner it doesn't expect. So if you do want to keep the RF modulator in place and working, I would honestly just install the separate toggle switch and go that way. If you remove the RF modulator, then the single wire method is a good way to go using the channel select swich.

 

Thanks for clarifying. I DID remove the RF modulator; so I think I'll go with the factory-installed switch.

[Intellitendo]

4 hours ago, walldog1 said:

First question: No tracings need to be scraped off. Just run a single wire to the ground pad of palette select on the Orange Peel board to the channel 3/4 input leg solder joint to the RF Mod tracing. Channel 3 position will provide the path to ground on the Logic Board. Channel 4 position leaves that circuit to ground open. The shaky yellow line indicates where in the photo.

 

I can't help you with your second question. Is that a file for using on a 3D printer?

 

 

Thank you for the help! I'm excited to have an all-in-one unit.

Yes, an STL file is for 3D printing.

[+-^CrossBow^-]

13 hours ago, Intellitendo said:

Thank you for the help! I'm excited to have an all-in-one unit.

Yes, an STL file is for 3D printing.

Are you the one that recently emailed me regarding the mini din mount boards? Shoot me a PM here as well so I can better remember to get back to you on that!

 

[Intellitendo]

8 hours ago, -^CrossBow^- said:

Are you the one that recently emailed me regarding the mini din mount boards? Shoot me a PM here as well so I can better remember to get back to you on that!

 

I actually did just email you about the mount boards. Sure thing; sent