romeo mod question

**Mobli** · 08-31-2004,06:49 PM

this cap that you have to remove, how do you do that? do you just rip it of or something? and what does it help? thanks

**tjtownz** · 08-31-2004,08:58 PM

Go to: www.duomodchip.com and take a look at the picture of the romeo mod in the install section.

You are just lifting the pin off the pad that touches the mobo and wiring it to another point. The previous pad it was touching cant be touching the pin anymore, and the pin can not be broken from the chip.

**Bizquick** · 09-01-2004,12:03 AM

I have a brand new PS2 V9 I haven't even stuck one disc in it yet should I do this romeo mod on this PS2? and i don't have a way to measure my coils. but my PS2 is Brand new should I even worrie about that?

**mikearama** · 09-01-2004,09:46 AM

Biz... the problem is the heavy voltage going to the LA chip. 12V is just too much. And the hardest time for the LA is when the console is booted up with no disc in the tray... the laser goes through the entire range of volts from 1 to 12... twice.

This will happen (no disc in tray) with or without a chip installed. Which is why many V9 consoles fried, even though no chip was installed.

I don't know how this got improved in the V10's, since I have yet to hear of this happening on one of them, but why run the risk. The Romeo makes it damn near impossible. So I'd suggest waiting until your warranty expires... if you have no issues in that timeframe, then do the Romeo.

**Bizquick** · 09-01-2004,09:54 AM

Well I'm going to chip it like in the next few days so the warrany is allready expired in my mind.

**Emanuel** · 09-01-2004,11:13 AM

To Mobli: see http://romeo.altervista.org/
To tjtownz: he was reffering to the SCEx capacitor, not the LA pin.

The chips inject the SCEx signal at the point where the capacitor is and as a result drive the lens coils with unwanted extra current. By removing the capacitor you can avoid this unwanted and possibly dangerous side effect.

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