Re: Camcorder/scart info please

[Nigel Orr <Nigel.Orr@xxxxxxx>]

At 20:48 13/06/00 +0100, you wrote:
>I am currently setting up the comfort relays to do some switching, with
x10
>controlling the power and was trying to minimise cable runs.

You can never have too much cable!  I think I've mentioned that before...
buy a load of cheap cable (either the 8core screened stuff from Comfort, or
unscreened cat-5 from anywhere), and run 2 or 3 spare cables on each run-
it only costs an extra pound or two, and leaves much more flexibility for
later.

>I will use 6
>core which should mean only the left and right audio grounds are
commoned.

I presume you are proposing:
Video
12V
Video Gnd
Left
Right
Audio Gnd

That's probably fine (do you actually need stereo?)

> As I said previously I intended using two camcorders, but my son
dropped one
>which no longer works. I took it to bits last night looking for the
easy to
>fix broken connection or component, with no luck :-(

What's it stopped doing?  If it won't come on at all, it's probably
straightforwardish, if it comes on but does very odd things, it might be
straightforward, or it might be too tricky...

>Anyway now I,ve got a bag of bits reluctantly destined for the bin (I

Nooooooo... :-)

> Time to get a B&W board from Henry's, when I get paid.

Now I've had the chance to compare the Henry's one and the similarly cheap
B&Q one (Kingfisher or something like that?), the Henrys one did seem
much
better.  The B&Q seems to suffer vertical 'streaks', which I presume is
the
CCD element column getting confused/overloaded, and it has had little fits
where there is a solid black vertival line at one point in the picture (do
CCDs suffer latchup?  It went away when I power cycled it)

Dunno about the other B&Q one (Ring), but I think someone here had one.

Nigel


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