mbergeron Posted August 17, 2015 Report Posted August 17, 2015 Decided to take a break from renos tonight to finally do a quick AV mod on my Colecovision. Looks and sounds great! I used the Ben Heck method here: http://benheck.com/Games/Coleco/Video_Mod.htm REALLY simple, all said and done took me about 30mins. The Professor, MaximumRD, Justin and 2 others 5 Quote
MaximumRD Posted August 17, 2015 Report Posted August 17, 2015 WOW AWESOME! Colecovision is a favorite of mine, I have two units maybe I will do this one day. Justin, The Professor and mbergeron 3 Quote I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday." - M. Bison
Rowsdower70 Posted August 17, 2015 Report Posted August 17, 2015 Next do an INTV Model 1 for me! mbergeron 1 Quote "For you - Rowsdower from the 70 - have been appointed Omnivisioner of the Game Grid." ~ Atari Adventure Square
mbergeron Posted August 17, 2015 Author Report Posted August 17, 2015 Next do an INTV Model 1 for me! Lol. INTV1 is on my list! Although my Odyssey2 will likely be next, it's another really easy one. Eventually I want composite out on all of my really old consoles so I can connect them all to a huge switch box that I'll make and have them all ready to play without having to swap connectors. WOW AWESOME! Colecovision is a favorite of mine, I have two units maybe I will do this one day. Super simple. You should! RickR, Justin and The Professor 3 Quote
CrossBow Posted May 27, 2017 Report Posted May 27, 2017 I used to use the Ben Heck mod in my CV but had saturation issues all the time, plus the transistor would get stupid hot! Found out from a post at AA that while Ben's mod does work. it isn't correct in regards to voltage and the transistor gets so hot because of the 12v going into it. Eventually the transistor will burn out before its time if you play the CV often. In the end I took it all out and bought one of Yurkie's AV boards but just the board. That way it replaced the simple circuit show for the Ben Heck mod, and I still use the RCA jacks I installed on the back. Looks much better than the simple mod here and best of all, no heat being built up anywhere. Justin 1 Quote See what I'm up to over at the Ivory Tower Collections: http://www.youtube.com/ivorytowercollections
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