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Re: todays challenge xbox into hotel tv


  • Subject: Re: todays challenge xbox into hotel tv
  • From: "big_red_frog" <anthony.tod@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:40:33 -0000

I will be walking to the Birmingham central Maplin at lunch time,
they have a VH89 in stock that will do the job...

This is where I discover that "hotel" TV is on some strange
modulation scheme!

You can buy carry cases with built in screens but no idea how good
they are.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "UKHA" <mailinglists@v...> wrote:
> You can buy an adjustable modulator from Maplins...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: big_red_frog [mailto:anthony.tod@z...]
> Sent: 10 August 2004 08:44
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: todays challenge xbox into hotel tv
>
>
>   Thanks for the reply,
>
>   I thought it was pin 8, but was worried where I would get the 12V
>   positive from. I suppose as you say I could take it from a
battery.
>
>   How about this though, I could join the grounds on the Xbox and
the
>   hotel scart system, and then take the pin 8 voltage from the hotel
>   system.
>
>   The annoying thing is I now need open scart plugs, and it is
getting
>   a bit dodgy.
>
>   Does anyone know of a simple RF modulator that I can plug the
>   composite+audio(L+R) into that has an adjustable output so I can
sit
>   it directly onto an existing tuning point?
>
>   >
>   > You need to apply between 9.5 and 12 volts to pin 8 (using pin
14
>   as ground).
>   >
>   > I don't know if there is a convenient power out on the xbox but
you
>   could
>   > just do a "Heath Robinson" with a PP3 battery.
>   >
>   > Nick.
>
>
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