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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: RCA-mod: 3 wires with each their shield?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>thursdaycustoms wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>It&#039;s not a stupid question. That&#039;s some elaborate wire for what you&#039;re doing! The RCA jacks will have the metal flanges that go under the nut like elongated washers. You want those connected together and then wired to ground. I would get some much thinner wire if I were you though. I use 30AWG solid core. It&#039;s very nice for fitting in a Game Boy. Just use some hot glue so they don&#039;t break off when you go to close it.</p></blockquote></div><p>Thank you very much! </p><p>I went ahead and hooked the RCA&#039;s up with thinner wire like you said, and it&#039;s working like a charm.<br />The only weird thing is, that my normal minijack output now only has one channel working. No sound in the other. Hmm.. is this an ordinary thing, or did I screw something up?</p><br /><p>EDIT:</p><p>OK so I tried making the RCAs on another dmg as well, and this time the minijack out is working fine. So apparently something went wrong with the first attempt.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[soerena]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-09-06T13:01:36Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: RCA-mod: 3 wires with each their shield?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>It&#039;s not a stupid question. That&#039;s some elaborate wire for what you&#039;re doing! The RCA jacks will have the metal flanges that go under the nut like elongated washers. You want those connected together and then wired to ground. I would get some much thinner wire if I were you though. I use 30AWG solid core. It&#039;s very nice for fitting in a Game Boy. Just use some hot glue so they don&#039;t break off when you go to close it.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[thursdaycustoms]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-09-06T12:50:35Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: RCA-mod: 3 wires with each their shield?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hmm, okay I just realized how stupid this question is.</p><p>Wiring all 3 shields to GND would just be cake on cake on cake, and make no sense. <br />I need other cables... Just delete this thread, please</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[soerena]]></name>
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			<updated>2013-09-06T11:33:06Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[RCA-mod: 3 wires with each their shield?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p><p>This might be a very stupid question - I&#039;m sorry!</p><p>I&#039;ve bought everything for making the RCA mod which hopefully will result in some more bass.</p><p>The thing is, the 3 cables in my ribbon cable each have their own shield.</p><p>So if I were to just go ahead and do this, I would probably just wire all 3 shields to GND on both the gameboy and the RCA&#039;s.</p><p>This guy however tells not to wire the cable to GND on the side of the cable that goes to output: <a href="http://lowgain-audio.com/GBclassicmod.htm" target="_blank">http://lowgain-audio.com/GBclassicmod.htm</a><br />However, that is perhaps another mod - and perhaps I&#039;m just mixing things up.</p><p>Here&#039;s a picture of my lovely mega-shield-cable:<br /><a class="postimg" href="http://sorenandreasen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/shields.jpg" title="http://sorenandreasen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/shields.jpg" id="forum_image_75211249"><img src="http://sorenandreasen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/shields.jpg" /></a></p><p>Should I wire all 3 shields together to GND or just one of them - and then which one?</p><p>/Søren</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2013-09-06T11:24:19Z</updated>
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