Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-07 Thread Tony Duell
On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Adrian Graham wrote: > Evening all, > > I wish I had the ability to take a board layout and turn it into a logically > laid out schematic but as yet I don't. Video sync on my Executel 3910 is > still running me round in circles so could one of you fine folk take a

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Adrian Graham
On 08/01/2017 07:31, "Tony Duell" wrote: > On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Adrian Graham > wrote: >> Evening all, >> >> I wish I had the ability to take a board layout and turn it into a logically >> laid out schematic but as yet I don't. Video sync on my Executel 3910 is >> still running me r

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Adrian Graham
On 08/01/2017 07:31, "Tony Duell" wrote: > On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Adrian Graham > wrote: >> Evening all, >> >> I wish I had the ability to take a board layout and turn it into a logically >> laid out schematic but as yet I don't. Video sync on my Executel 3910 is >> still running me r

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Tony Duell
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: > On 08/01/2017 07:31, "Tony Duell" wrote: >> I don't believe it's correct as drawn. For one thing you have V333, an NPN >> transistor, with the collector grounded (and no -ve supplies on the circuit. >> For >> another, R322 is ridiculously l

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Tony Duell
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Adrian Graham wrote: > You were right, I'd drawn out R335 wrongly and flipped V333. All the anodes > go via R312 to the collector of V333 along with R309-R311. Base for V333 is > the inverted sync output of the MR9735. R322 is 6.8k > (blue-grey-black-brown). All di

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Mouse
>>> http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/STCExecutelSyncCircuit.jpg >> I don't believe it's correct as drawn. For one thing you have V333, >> an NPN transistor, with the collector grounded (and no -ve supplies >> on the circuit. Bipolar transistors are to some extent symmetric under interchange of co

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Tony Duell
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Mouse wrote: > I also question the way R311/R310/R309 are all different. I would > expect the red, green, and blue circuits to be electrically more or > less identical, and different pulldown values does not fit with that. Well, I wonder if it's producing a weigh

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Adrian Graham
On 08/01/2017 14:06, "Tony Duell" wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Adrian Graham > wrote: > >> You were right, I'd drawn out R335 wrongly and flipped V333. All the anodes >> go via R312 to the collector of V333 along with R309-R311. Base for V333 is >> the inverted sync output of the MR

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Adrian Graham
On 08/01/2017 16:18, "Mouse" wrote: http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/STCExecutelSyncCircuit.jpg >>> I don't believe it's correct as drawn. For one thing you have V333, >>> an NPN transistor, with the collector grounded (and no -ve supplies >>> on the circuit. > > Bipolar transistors are to

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Tony Duell
> I photographed both sides of the board and merged the pictures together to > make a front/back composite. The trace for the cathodes of the 3 diodes > links together on the back of the board and doesn't go anywhere else. The > front trace from V302 cathode goes straight to R312. The anodes DO lin

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Adrian Graham
On 08/01/2017 17:21, "Tony Duell" wrote: >> I photographed both sides of the board and merged the pictures together to >> make a front/back composite. The trace for the cathodes of the 3 diodes >> links together on the back of the board and doesn't go anywhere else. The >> front trace from V302 c

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Tony Duell
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Adrian Graham wrote: > On 08/01/2017 17:21, "Tony Duell" wrote: > >>> I photographed both sides of the board and merged the pictures together to >>> make a front/back composite. The trace for the cathodes of the 3 diodes >>> links together on the back of the board

Re: More circuit help required please

2017-01-08 Thread Adrian Graham
On 08/01/2017 18:20, "Tony Duell" wrote: >> However, two of us bought units at the same time and the other one has a >> little bridgeboard containing a 74LS244 that sends the RGB signals to a DIN >> socket on the back of the case for an external monitor. I also can't see a > > And in a sense the