Scandoubler module (for CV643D) What's its worth?

[yogisumo]

Of course I'm assuming that this is the Phase5 scandoubler...
Offering information such as brand name/ model no helps.

Think I paid almost $200 Canadian for a Phase5 2 years ago.  (Ebay).  

As far as actual worth, like anything else, it's worth whatever someone wants to pay for it... not more, not less.

[yogisumo]

philipj wrote:
Are they known for being prone to faults? I think I heard someone else say something similar to you on Amiga.org :getmad:

I have 3 of them and they all work fine as long as your video slot is working because that's where they plug in...

[yogisumo]

Yeah.  I have 3 A4000D, 1 A4000T, a 2000, and a 500.  Not doing much of anything with them right now.  1 tower is waiting for the Prometheus rom to be upgraded ( A4000D tower conversion ). I don't have the room or time to set them all up right now.  Hope to change that fairly soon...

The 4000's are various configs starting from CSPPC233, Quikpak 060, Warp 040, and 030.

A2k is stock as is A500.

Also have 1 external scandoubler.  Have a couple of 1084's but they're not so much fun compared to LCD or 19" CRT.

[yogisumo]

snowman040 wrote:
Can SD work by itself or needs CV64 to work ?

I think I'll resolder mine to see if there is some cold solder, but hate to mess with cv+sd bundle while trying...

Make sure you have a working video slot.  The SD is pretty straightforward.  If your video slot is bad, it won't work. One of my A4000D has a bad video slot, unfortunately.

[yogisumo]

JJ wrote:
do these work with dce cv64/3d ?

Yes.

[yogisumo]

snowman040 wrote:

Ah :-( how can i check is video slot working ? Actually I do get some kind of signal from SD, but it's out of sync ? I have some old monochrome vga monitor that displays jumping picture :-) but newer monitors just go to "out of sync" state....

Good question.  I have more than one 4000 and more than one SD so I just tried the SD in a different 4000.  The bad A4000D also has a bad parallel port.  I don't know anybody that fixes these anymore so... I thought that my single SD was bad until I got more 4000's and realized that the problem was the video slot.

If you're getting an image on the monitor, the video slot is not likely to be the problem.  Check your cable or monitor.