Help with piccolo j-310 pincushion

[jhalphen]

Hi to all,
Hi Pjaska,

I sent the following set of files (SM's, schematics, photos) to your Mail address.
see list in snapshot below.
All concern 5" micro color TVs, all are PAL B/G Euro models, some with SECAM.

Hope this helps,

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France

[Pjaska]

Hello and thank you all my friends!
I got the capacitor for horizontal deflection. Image got little bit wider then with original capacitor and its not heating up like the electrolytic ones. Pincushion is still there but its much more tolerable now with proper overscan:










I tryed using gluable little magnets to it but i didnt get it any better. Maybe i try that in later episodes.. It is now having some interfierence lines on the picture after turning the tv on. They are usually black and may have some rainbow color parts too... They go away after some time or if i turn brightness and contrast down a little. They like appearing on bright light screens. I noticed this first time when i was messing with the capacitors, i dont know if they where there before me or not. I used to have it low on brightness becouse the black looks so gray, now after recapping and adjusting it i can have black look better in brighter settings. Do you guys think this is dangerous or bad for my tv? I havent build the degaussing tool yet..
Edit: interfierence looks like went gone when i reassembled the plastics. Maybe something was too close for wrong wire who knows time will tell...





I have spend so much time with this little tv now that my wife says i can sleep on the couch with convergence and geometry if i dont come back to real life now so i think i will have a little break with the project for now













Its cool how it is so close with the footprint of famicom. Now i can take it with me and my AV and USB modded famicom and we can all play outside (or next to a car at least) to the sunset

[Gus1969]

Originally Posted by Pjaska

Hello and thank you all my friends!
I got the capacitor for horizontal deflection. Image got little bit wider then with original capacitor and its not heating up like the electrolytic ones. Pincushion is still there but its much more tolerable now with proper overscan:










I tryed using gluable little magnets to it but i didnt get it any better. Maybe i try that in later episodes.. It is now having some interfierence lines on the picture after turning the tv on. They are usually black and may have some rainbow color parts too... They go away after some time or if i turn brightness and contrast down a little. They like appearing on bright light screens. I noticed this first time when i was messing with the capacitors, i dont know if they where there before me or not. I used to have it low on brightness becouse the black looks so gray, now after recapping and adjusting it i can have black look better in brighter settings. Do you guys think this is dangerous or bad for my tv? I havent build the degaussing tool yet..
Edit: interfierence looks like went gone when i reassembled the plastics. Maybe something was too close for wrong wire who knows time will tell...





I have spend so much time with this little tv now that my wife says i can sleep on the couch with convergence and geometry if i dont come back to real life now so i think i will have a little break with the project for now













Its cool how it is so close with the footprint of famicom. Now i can take it with me and my AV and USB modded famicom and we can all play outside (or next to a car at least) to the sunset

Family Game? I believed they had only been sold in the third world. I had one.

[Gus1969]

I can imagine that. Here in Uruguay since the late 80s, almost all televisions were three systems, PAL N, M and NTSC due to games and camcorders of American origin. Congratulations, you have put a lot of love into that little TV.