[Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,

[Alex Duffield]

I hope to come with it next Monday, it has a massive battery space as yet
un used

On 6 Sep 2017 10:45 a.m., "David Davies-Day" <djdavies83 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Most random thing of all, later on last night, I was having conversion on
> the same topic, feeding AV into a B&W set.
>
> Shouldn't take more than about 15 min to mod the RF converter,  the case
> actually looks big enough to fit a Pi zero inside if you want to keep it
> external.
>
> Either way,  I'm happy to give you a hand one Monday.
>
>
> o animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several
> thousand electrons were severely inconvenienced.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com>
> Date:2017/09/06 8:54 AM (GMT+00:00)
> To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,
>
> No no no no muuuuuch older lol, this thing is a brick
>
> On 5 Sep 2017 7:37 p.m., "David Davies-Day" <djdavies83 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, little silver thing, something like a 5 inch screen?
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/Coby-CX-TV1-Black-White-Tuner/dp/B00006I56A
>>
>> I had two like this, it may well have the yellow and white sockets on the
>> back, just above the battery bay.
>>
>>
>> No animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several
>> thousand electrons were severely inconvenienced.
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com>
>> Date:2017/09/05 6:23 PM (GMT+00:00)
>> To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,
>>
>> This is a very basic portable TV (can run off batteries) port wise all it
>> has is an external Ariel port (it has its own) and an analogue scroll type
>> tuner
>>
>> On 5 Sep 2017 6:02 p.m., "David Davies-Day" <djdavies83 at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like you just covered all the points I was thinking of there Tim.
>>>
>>> If there is no scart, I doubt there would be scart on B&W, or no
>>> composite yellow and white, there is another way to add an AV input
>>> relatively cheaply.
>>>
>>> A playstation one Rf cable...
>>> http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=262919102923&alt=web
>>>
>>> This model is the easiest to use...
>>> http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=282545392453&alt=web
>>>
>>> Just plug in or solder your AV to the inputs and feed it 5V.
>>> Inside the casing, the wires coming from the PSX multi cable will be
>>> left audio, video and 5V,  easy to see two of them going to the external
>>> phono sockets, the one that is not is your 5V input for the circuit.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't expect a B&W set to show the Rf channel but for reference,
>>>  if you wanted to test it on a newer set that receives both analogue and
>>> digital,  these units (pretty much all fixed Rf units of that era) will
>>> output on CH36.
>>>
>>> I've hacked a similar unit to send an AV signal upstairs through the
>>> existing coaxial cable.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No animals were harmed in the making of this email. However, several
>>> thousand electrons were severely inconvenienced.
>>>
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: "Davies T." <t.davies at swansea.ac.uk>
>>> Date:2017/09/05 2:44 PM (GMT+00:00)
>>> To: Swansea Hackspace <hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>
>>> Cc:
>>> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,
>>>
>>> Dear Alex,
>>>
>>> I agree with previous suggestions that you use a Freeview box.
>>>
>>> There is of course the issue of connecting the TV to the Freeview
>>> box. If the TV is really ancient then it only has a aerial socket on
>>> the back, so you will have to make sure the Freeview box has a
>>> UHF modulator fitted. The Freeview box then appears as a new
>>> station (the only one in the whole tuning range!) and the channel
>>> change is of course on the Freeview.
>>>
>>> If the TV has a SCART connector, then it's easy. You just need to
>>> use a SCART lead to connect to the Freeview box, and again you
>>> select channels using the Freeview.
>>>
>>> Some smaller sets had two RCA sockets, one white, one yellow.
>>> If that is the case you need a SCART to RCA lead.
>>>
>>> I would not use an up-to-date Freeview box, try and obtain an
>>> old one because the latest boxes may not have SCART or a UHF
>>> modulator!
>>>
>>> Next step is to look closely at the front and back of the TV for
>>> connectors. As a minimum there will be a TV coax socket for
>>> the aerial. Hopefully a SCART or some RCA connectors as well.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
>>> Timothy Davies
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk [
>>> hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk] on behalf of Alex Duffield [
>>> alexmduffield at gmail.com]
>>> *Sent:* 05 September 2017 11:57
>>> *To:* Swansea Hackspace
>>> *Subject:* [Swansea Hackspace] Analogue b&w TV,
>>>
>>> I have a 7inch b&w old portable TV in full working order, but of corse
>>> is analogue and there is no analogue transmissions left in this country, it
>>> works well as a radio but I would like to get it to pick up atleast some
>>> tv, anyone know a way to do this? I appreciate it's some pretty ancient
>>> tech nowadays lol
>>>
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