Homemade Vga Cable, Dark Picture Options

[boniek]

Hi,

Sorry for my English. I've made a homemade VGA cable (I used good quality standard VGA-VGA cable and plug from non-original Xbox 360 VGA cable).

I soldered all points and got very good picture quality without any ghosting (just perfect).

One problem is level of brightness (picture is dark!) - it's about 60-70% of brightness of original VGA cable. I connected all ground points going from cable into one ground point in plug (metal shelding). Maybe this is the issue? Should I connect all ground points to the coresponding data points (I mean RED, BLUE, GREEN and H,V-sync have their own GND but I soldered all grounds together).

Thanks for all answers!

[DM613]

It took ages for me to get my gamertag linked, because EA site bugged for me. I finally got it to work not so long ago, and am finally able to see screenshots I've taken. And those were taken by accident, when I didn't know how to take 'em (only noticed the feature when "achievement unlocked" popped on my screen, for unlocking the one that you get from taking 3 screenshots). So they are mostly just closeups of ground, with couple knifekills

[snowcolt17]

What kind of cable did you use. And which pinout. I used a energizer Hd cable. And mine works perfect. Had to solder a few things and move a few(not the same as a OEM HD.360 cable)

[dennisv9]

Hi,

Sorry for my English. I've made a homemade VGA cable (I used good quality standard VGA-VGA cable and plug from non-original Xbox 360 VGA cable).

I soldered all points and got very good picture quality without any ghosting (just perfect).

One problem is level of brightness (picture is dark!) - it's about 60-70% of brightness of original VGA cable. I connected all ground points going from cable into one ground point in plug (metal shelding). Maybe this is the issue? Should I connect all ground points to the coresponding data points (I mean RED, BLUE, GREEN and H,V-sync have their own GND but I soldered all grounds together).

Thanks for all answers!

just put a multimeter on those ground points, and you see that there is continuity between all those ground points. so no need to connect to their respective points, since they all have a common shared ground. same as all the screw holes, they are all shared ground points. so save yourself the trouble of doing that, and just use one common ground. you can always try another ground point (preferably take one outside the av connector plug, so connect it directly to the metal casing. perhaps the av plug you are using is of a low(er) quality (i doubt that, but you can try it anyways). also check the data pins and ground pins for continuity, maybe there is a short somewhere.