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How to use SCART for our hobby
lettuce:
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--- Quote from: lettuce on April 10, 2012, 08:19:07 pm ---So the BC548B circuit can fit inside the actually scart plug housing if soldered on to vero board?
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For sure! Take a look here. :)
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Ah good pics!!
The way im going to do the audio plug is to have it coming from the VGA end rather than the scart end, that way you wouldnt have a audio cable running along the scart cable aswell. So ill leave the pins 6,4 and 2 soldered to the scart lead and then solder the audio wires to the other end of the scart cable which will be inside the VGA house....i think it will make it look alot neater
Paradroid:
--- Quote from: lettuce on April 11, 2012, 06:42:01 am ---The way im going to do the audio plug is to have it coming from the VGA end rather than the scart end, that way you wouldnt have a audio cable running along the scart cable aswell.
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Yep. I've made cables that way before. The problem is that it's a lot more work to have to solder the SCART and VGA ends separately. Plus, it's cheaper when you can cut a VGA cable off a disused computer monitor and use that instead of finding or buying a fully loaded SCART cable. Theoretically, the audio will be better shielded with a separate cable.
I do agree that the single cable approach looks neater though. :)
lettuce:
Yeah i had thought about using a VGA cable to hack rather than a scart cable. But 99.9% of VGA cables are sealed units, how would you tell which wire on the hacked end was connected up to what pin on the VGA plug?
joecontra:
lettuce
how would you tell which wire on the hacked end was connected up to what pin on the VGA plug?
I built cable even that way. You got to measure which wire belongs to which pin.
It's not that hard.
Regards,
joecontra
Zebidee:
--- Quote from: lettuce on April 11, 2012, 08:23:34 am ---Yeah i had thought about using a VGA cable to hack rather than a scart cable. But 99.9% of VGA cables are sealed units, how would you tell which wire on the hacked end was connected up to what pin on the VGA plug?
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You need to use a multimeter on diode setting, which looks something like this: ->|-