Yeah, I don't consider it necessary. But the owner wanted it done and they already purchased a cap kit, so no point letting them go to waste

It looks like the transformer rotation is on purpose. The silkscreen has markings for both a straight and slightly rotated transformer, my guess is the 230V and 110V transformers have a slightly different footprint (Noel's 110V version is straight)

Snap! 😂 I do love Tomy from Artic Retro tho, now I need to hear his impression of Mark

Yep, the white bricks are potted (filled with resin). There were at least 4 different PSUs Commodore used in Aus, with the white ones being the final version

@@TheRetroChannel And they were like fire bricks, we had ours raised off the carpet on the concrete fireplace mount and to attempt to keep it cool, we used our only oscillating fan over it for extra cooling.

It's a retrotink 5x. The C64 outputs an odd vertical sync and some devices will not work at all with it. I have a couple here that don't work with the 64

@@TheRetroChannel Yeah I also have a retrotink which works quite well for displaying on an HDTV via HDMI, but I was specifically wondering what you use to capture the video to the PC side of things when doing the KZfaq videos.

@michaelst.pierre1187 Ah ok, I use the HDMI output from the tink 5x into an EVGA XR1 lite

Yeah, I use an original brick with a saver on my own machine. Sure, a SMPS will be more efficient but these machines were designed for a linear supply and using anything else can cause more trouble than its worth

Wow really? That's not the best after sales service. I tested out a Keelog a few years ago and it wasn't great, AC voltage was too high and it produced a lot of video noise. They may have improved their design since then, I don't know

@@TheRetroChannel Hmm.. Really not sure what to do about the C64 PSU situation. I also ordered a different Polish type of C64 replacement PSU prior to the Electroware, but it was low quality as well. I really hate to open high voltage things and have loose pieces of hot glue falling out... I have about 5 refurbished C64s I want to sell on, but I only want to sell them bundled with a good CE-approved, safe and legal quality replacement PSU. ...and yes.. it should be cheap too 🙂 Lastly, my refurbished C64s do not draw a lot of current, so some replacement PCBs I have tried had a crazy high 5.35V voltage to begin with, thinking they should overcome a long cable and a hefty current draw of a fully decked out old style C64 to end up with a voltage loss settling at about 5.0 volts, but on mine the resulting voltage is much higher, close to 5.27v, which is too high in my opinion. Many 5V chips are only rated to run between 4.75 and 5.25 volts.

My keelog PSU tester had the same wiring issue as seen here (it onky catered for the pinout of the newer version of the PSU, though). They just told me to fix it myself and offered a discount.

@@christianlarsen1070 Thanks for the information.

I used some green/yellow wire which in Australia is only supposed to be used for earth ground. It's fine

He's fine, just taking a hiatus from KZfaq

@@TheRetroChannel Cheers. Thanks for the heads up.

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