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Main => Lightguns => Topic started by: testicle187 on December 08, 2013, 04:04:31 am
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I recently got a pair of Actlab s-video out tv guns. One of them has the male s-video end ripped out. What would you call the style of connector that it has on it?
I tried splicing the end with an s-video y cable but I never could get it to work right. The problem is that normal s-video cables have 4 wires and the Actlab guns only have three. Does anyone where I can get a replacement connector or have a broken gun with the connector still intact they want to part with?
I attached a picture of my other guns working connector for reference.
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Not sure what type that is but usually I look in monoprice website they have a crazy amount of adapters and hook ups... Just a thought. :dunno
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It's a 4 pin mini-din connector
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It's a 4 pin mini-din connector
Thank you for the response and I guess I should have been more clear. I was aware of that, but I was wondering what I could search for that would yield a connector like the one shown. It has a male on one side and a female on the other. I thought a Y Cable would work, but noticed the ACT Labs cable is not a regular svideo cable since it only has 3 wires. On the pcb for the gun the wires are labeled "In", "Out", and "GND". When I look up an svideo cable pinout I get 4 wires labelled: C - Chroma, Y - Luma, GND, and GND.
I don't understand how to connect the 3 wires from the Actlabs gun connector to the svideo and get it to work properly. When I tried probably 15 combinations I could never get the gun to turn the screen white for calibration, colors were terrible, or no picture depending on the combinations I chose.
Has anyone done this before or have any insight?
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maybe the actlabs gun just has a common ground rather than a ground for the luma and a ground for the chroma?