Sega Dreamcast VGA Mod

Step 7 Now you can start soldering.

Using the pinout diagram from the previous step, you can see that I don't have anything grounded in the first picture. I chose to take the ground and supply voltage from the power supply terminals just to make soldering a little easier (as seen in the second photo). By the way, that yellow stuff on the solder joints isn't flux, it's actually glue that I added afterwards to make the joints a bit more secure.

Now, I used wires about 20-25cm long, but that may have been a bit excessive. Not a problem, but make sure you have some cable ties if the wires are too long.

Comments

[mothflavour2]

yeah, the solid wire makes it easy to solder, as opposed to stranded wire.

[lifelong-newbie]

But In situation were the wire will be under stress one solid wire is more likely to break than a collection of finer wires like those found in stranded wire.

[mothflavour2]

true, but hopefully an internal mod won't be put under too much stress.

[lifelong-newbie]

Fair enough, I still prefer the braided wire mainly because if i make an error in my soldering and have to sort it out (unsoldering many other wires) the wire im getting at may be put under stress and it could fracture without my knowledge and i won't be able to debug it with much ease. Solid is a fair site easier to solder though.

[pezmanlou]

I see you used ethernet cable. I use that stuff in projects all the time too.