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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!!
« Reply #14 on: November 01, 2008, 11:31:51 PM »
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No sign of a SX32 yet, but I do have at least one CD1500 (CDTV Professional, makes CDTV a full computer) and a SCSI-TV.


I'm guessing the SCSI-TV is just a SCSI controller for the CDTV, but what the CD1500? Never heard of it, just the CD500 (you just got working) and the CD1000 regular CDTV...
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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!!
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2008, 11:40:16 PM »
@Tahoe

The CD1500 is the "CDTV Professional" expansion pack for the CDTV. It gives you a floppy, keyboard, mouse etc. It basically makes a CDTV into a full functioning computer.
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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!!
« Reply #16 on: November 01, 2008, 11:45:07 PM »
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Ah, thanx! So that was all bundled in a kit form? Here they were just sold seperatly.

I managed to source all those seperate parts, last was the trackball which is now on it's way to me. Finally I can use regular joysticks on the CDTV :)
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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!!
« Reply #17 on: November 01, 2008, 11:48:06 PM »
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Ah, thanx! So that was all bundled in a kit form? Here they were just sold seperatly.
 


Yup, there was a bundle.
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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)
« Reply #18 on: November 02, 2008, 12:01:49 AM »
Youtube video:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1nhoNvaplt4

Youtube made the video very dark again for some reason.
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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!!
« Reply #19 on: November 02, 2008, 12:02:00 AM »
Where do you find all these amazing toys? :-o

It's also amazing how forward thinking the engineers were.
 

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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!!
« Reply #20 on: November 02, 2008, 12:21:33 AM »
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It's also amazing how forward thinking the engineers were.

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So can you eject and boot discs? What was this IDE thing you mentioned??
 

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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!!
« Reply #21 on: November 02, 2008, 12:30:03 AM »
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So can you eject and boot discs? What was this IDE thing you mentioned??


Yes, or at least I was for a while. Now it stopped working again. I am very suspicious of the power supply. Anyone have a pinout of the power supply?
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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)
« Reply #22 on: November 02, 2008, 12:47:35 AM »
Yup, I was right. The power supply has seriously leaky capacitors!!

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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)
« Reply #23 on: November 02, 2008, 12:52:43 AM »
Electrolyte looks a bit different and those types of capacitors doesn't leak unless they are explode.
 

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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)
« Reply #24 on: November 02, 2008, 01:06:14 AM »
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Electrolyte looks a bit different and those types of capacitors doesn't leak unless they are explode.


I don't know about that. I have a Televideo TS-803H that didn't work and had leaky capacitors that looks just like that. I re-capped the whole thing, which took many, many hours, and it works like a champ now.

If not electrolyte, what is it? Glue?

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I guess it is glue..
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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)
« Reply #25 on: November 02, 2008, 01:16:44 AM »
Could be glue or something from Mars.

Well, these capacitors are dry out over years so changing them could be a good idea to get a stable PSU again.
 

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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)
« Reply #26 on: November 02, 2008, 01:24:57 AM »
Inside this PS the leads are marked +5V, -12V etc. The green is marked CK and brown is marked SF. What the heck is SF and CK :-? CK shows ~2vdc AND 2vac on a MM. SF shows nada.
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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)
« Reply #27 on: November 02, 2008, 01:41:40 AM »
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Inside this PS the leads are marked +5V, -12V etc. The green is marked CK and brown is marked SF. What the heck is SF and CK :-? CK shows ~2vdc AND 2vac on a MM. SF shows nada.


Some type of Tick signal?
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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)
« Reply #28 on: November 02, 2008, 02:17:59 AM »
Reseated all chips and cleaned CD rom connector and reseated it. Booting up again!

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Re: Forget sasquatch and chubacabra, CDTV-II is here!! (IT WORKS!!)
« Reply #29 from previous page: November 02, 2008, 02:26:34 AM »
Eerrr... the right word is "chupacabra" (goat sucker)
Anyway, AMAZING machine !! Congratulations!!