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Wire or solder (for video signal)
« on: December 14, 2003, 06:24:43 am »
I'm planing on building another VGA to SCART cable. For the one I have made I've soldered the little cables to the pins in the SCART connector. Since I'm not very good at soldering, I've thought that maybe it would be a good idea to, instead of buying a SCART connector, buy a whole SCART cable, and cut one end. It already has all the cables soldered to the connector, so I would just have to join the little cables from the SCART with those from the VGA. Now, my question is: is this method recommended? When you are dealing with electronic input, such a controller, I don't think that wiring instead of soldering has any importance, but what about here, when cables are transmiting video signal. Would I experience interferences or worse quality than having the cables soldered to the pins? Thanx!

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Re:Wire or solder (for video signal)
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2003, 10:15:44 pm »
Either method should work fine.  Just be sure to use rosin core solder for electronics, not acid core.