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How to use SCART for our hobby
Gray_Area:
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--- Quote from: BurgerKingDiamond on November 02, 2010, 01:30:26 pm ---I have slightly different situation, but from reading this I think it should work. I want to connect my PS3 through SCART to an arcade monitor. An arcade monitor has R,G,B,GND, and SYNC right? So I can just connect the R,G,B,Sync wires from the monitor to the appropriate pins on the SCART? My only question is what to do to the GNDS for R,G,B. I'm sure this is obvious, but I just connect them all to the monitor GND?
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Yeah, That is pretty much what you would have to do. Sorry about the late reply.
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Sort of like daisy-chainging your controls grounds.
BurgerKingDiamond:
cool. My situation has changed so I won't be trying this afterall. I think it would basically work, but I think you need to amplify the signals some. Which is over my head.
orchidius:
Hi there once more,
The very first thing I made when I started on my first build was the VGA/SCART-cable. Since I'm no soldering genius and the VGA bit of the cable has some very small pins it was a MAJOR PITA. After a couple extra runs to the electronics store to get some replacement VGA connectors for the ones I screwed up, and with a ton of greatgreat help from you guys, I finally pulled it off. Somehow, the damn thing broke somewhere in the progress of moving the cab (my workshop is not at my house), so I had to start all over again. This time, now that the build is nearing completion, my soldering skills are much better, and I can honestly say I'm proud of the soldering job I did on my new cable. But... It's not working...
AFAIK, I used the exact same wiring as on the last one (I only left the Molex plug out, I considered it, but it's not really worth my trouble. I'll just put the tv in the right video channel manually.). Here's what I did:
VGA ---------------------------------> SCART
1 15
2 11
3 7
13 & 14 20
5, 6, 7, 8, 10 17
Shield Shield
4, 9, 11, 12, 15 Not connected
What am I missing? :s
apfelanni:
guess u missed scart pin 16 to switch the tv to > rgb< . 5 volt + 100 ohm resistor taken from a molex plug or vga pin 9 will do the trick .most tvs might work with 5 volt without any probs . if ur tv doesnt switch to av when powered up u'd better wire the 12 volt to pin 8 .
ps. soldering nerds are doin ok with classic 15-15 wired vga cables.
orchidius:
I know all other cables have this molex plug thing to get the 5v from the pc to the scart so the tv automatically switches to the right channel. I didn't install that cable this time because I didn't know it actually affected the signal transmitting from the pc to the tv. I thought it was only there for our convenience so that we didn't have to switch the tv to the av channel manually...
I guess i'll try to get the molex working anyway then... I'll get back to you!