Re: PAL DTV progress re colour fault(s) ???


"Stealth" <protostealth@*spamblocker*hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thus spoke Riccardo Rubini:
>> Indeed, it's not easy to fix it, for the average CBM hobbist, since
>> we ain't talking about the good old carbon resistors found on the
>> Commodore's, but tiny surface mounted resistors, which require decent
>> equipment and skills to fiddle with.
>
> Pardon me if I'm wrong, but what exactly is there to prevent you from
> using
> a regular carbon resistor and parallelly or serially line it up with an
> SMD
> component?

The size. A regular 1/4W resistor is absolutely huge compared to the SMD
resistors on the DTV.


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