Super Emotia: Interference/noise over time

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Svovl
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Super Emotia: Interference/noise over time

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Hi all,

I have a Super Emotia that I use to connect a PC and a Xbox 360 to my Sony PVM 20L4.
I bought the unit quite cheaply over eBay and it didn't come with a power supply, hence I adapted a regular ATX power supply.
The ATX power supply is 500 W.

The thing is, that when I use the Super Emotia interference or noise or what you would call it slowly creeps in to the picture over time (10-20 mins). It looks a bit like the drawing of the horizontal lines gradually gets more and more unstable – and it gets very hard for the eyes and head to look at for longer periods of time :-)
The PVM works perfectly with any other input source, so I don't think its that.

Could it be a grounding/earth issue? I haven't tried to earth the ATX power supply yet, as it will require me to buy some new cables – but I could easily do so.

Any of you experienced something similar?
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Re: Super Emotia: Interference/noise over time

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I think it's not an interferance, it should be a solarization effect, as stated by Fudoh on is review "Again 24-bit color inputs can show slight solarisation effects, but the actual low-res 240p image is awesome" you can read it all here: http://scanlines.hazard-city.de/

If you notice it on a blue background, that is for sure solarization effect. Check this thread for more details: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42933
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Re: Super Emotia: Interference/noise over time

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doesn't sound like it...

How do get a ATX PSU running with proper grounding ? If you're using a proper 3-prong from the outlet to the PSU and have the 5-pin connector on the Emotia wired to black on the PSU everything should be properly grounded. If that's the case, it could be failing caps somewhere.
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Re: Super Emotia: Interference/noise over time

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Overkill wrote:I think it's not an interferance, it should be a solarization effect, as stated by Fudoh on is review "Again 24-bit color inputs can show slight solarisation effects, but the actual low-res 240p image is awesome" you can read it all here: http://scanlines.hazard-city.de/

If you notice it on a blue background, that is for sure solarization effect. Check this thread for more details: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=42933
It doesn't look like a solarization effect, more like the synch gets slightly off over time?
Fudoh wrote:How do get a ATX PSU running with proper grounding ? If you're using a proper 3-prong from the outlet to the PSU and have the 5-pin connector on the Emotia wired to black on the PSU everything should be properly grounded. If that's the case, it could be failing caps somewhere.
For some reason grounding hasn't been so common in Danish houses, hence most of our cabling are only 2-prong, and the grounding we have is not standard European schuko. Well, I just have to go to the store and get some cables and try that out :-)
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