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How to use SCART for our hobby
Paradroid:
--- Quote from: lettuce on April 08, 2012, 06:58:08 am ---So what advantages does this device have over say building your own VGA to Scart cable then?
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The answer is in your question: the advantage is that you DON'T have to build your own cable. :) If you have more money than time this is the perfect solution. I'm pretty fastidious with my soldering but I'll admit that I could never make something as neat looking as that new gadget. Plus, it looks like this new solution "just works" as opposed to having to nut out schematics and make sure you don't make any mistakes during your cable build.
I reckon it looks really cool! :) Hopefully it'll open up this particular avenue of arcade gaming to people that are put off by the need to solder...
lettuce:
--- Quote from: joecontra on April 08, 2012, 07:59:32 am ---lettuce
Joe, i contacted you outside this forum
I looked at your e-mail adress and now I remember you. :)
i get an mild electric shock!. Any ideas why this happens even though the PC isnt turned on?
Even if the PC is turned off, there is some power in the system.
How's the cable working I built for you?
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So its getting the power from PIn 9 on the VGA then right? Yeah the system is turned of but still plugged into the wall socket. Yeah i guess theres always certain amount of power always going to the motherboard hence the status lights on the mobo are always on when the PC is powered down. So it is perfectly normal then?, i wanted to make sure it was some sort of short happening somewhere?
Yeah it does its job, or though it does pick up interference if i have the Sky Satalite box on near the cable (maybe its not shielded well enough, and the audio channels must have been soldered on to the scart plug the wrong may round. But i get a picture which is the main thing!
joecontra:
lettuce
So its getting the power from PIn 9 on the VGA then right?
Yes.
must have been soldered on to the scart plug the wrong may round
Don't you get sound or what's wrong?
But i get a picture which is the main thing!
Yeah! ;D
Regards,
joecontra
lettuce:
--- Quote from: joecontra on April 08, 2012, 10:24:10 am ---lettuce
So its getting the power from PIn 9 on the VGA then right?
Yes.
must have been soldered on to the scart plug the wrong may round
Don't you get sound or what's wrong?
But i get a picture which is the main thing!
Yeah! ;D
Regards,
joecontra
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Yeah i get sound, but the channels are flipped, so the right sound comes out of the left speaker, and the left sound out of the right speaker
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: joecontra on April 08, 2012, 07:59:32 am ---lettuce
Joe, i contacted you outside this forum
I looked at your e-mail adress and now I remember you. :)
i get an mild electric shock!. Any ideas why this happens even though the PC isnt turned on?
Even if the PC is turned off, there is some power in the system.
How's the cable working I built for you?
Paradroid
I think it might be time to retire from building VGA to SCART tables
I don't agree. ;D
An EEPROM chip which provides EDID data and a sync merger XOR gate chip can be placed on a small PCB, and this small PCB can be placed in a nice little box, attached to the cable.
But I have to say, that PCB you linked is a good work, many will find it useful. :)
Regards,
joecontra
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You can fit such a PCB onto a small triangle which will fit inside the Scart housing. I've seen it done before.