Re: Splicing SVHS cables

["marcmchawi" <marcmchawi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply Keith,

I see what your saying however.........the 2 cables in the wire I
tried to splice back together are colour coded. Am I missing
something really obvious and stupid.


Marc

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Keith Doxey" <ukha@d...> wrote:
>
> It should work no problem at all.
>
> The one reason I can definately think of that would stop you
getting a
> picture is that you have got the Chroma and Luma signals crossed
over.
>
> Luma carries a monochrome picture with sync signals
>
> Chroma carries the colour information to complete the picture.
>
> If the Chroma signal is missing you will get black and white.
>
> If Luma is missing you will get nothing.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Keith
>
> > OK, so I hid a lovley SVHS cabnle behind my newly laid skirting
board
> > and then the unthinkable...........as I connected the cable up to
my
> > AV amp..........2 of the pins broke!!!!!!
> >
> > So I thought OK I;ll just splice together another end onto the
cable,
> > but no picture.
> >
> > So then I re-spliced the cable back together and ran it across
the
> > room to test teh cable.......and nothing again.
> >
> > So can someone please tell me what is going on here and how to
put a
> > new plug on my SVHS cable
> >
>