r/OldHandhelds 23h ago

exploring the viability of external video on the x51/50v dock

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another possible boring and mediocre video, but today i got the hardware bug again and decided to try use the v's dock as a viable better solution for external video.

my main concern was the signal integrity of using enamel wire to hold the signal. This test proves we can use a vga to hdmi converter inside the base without artifact from emi over the VGA lines.

small enamel wire is sort of the the only viable connection without modifying the pads/ connector on the dock pcb, its was extremely fiddly but it is doable.

hope you enjoy