28 Apr
2005
28 Apr
'05
6:41 a.m.
>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Graham
<witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> writes:
> pages 43 and 84 of the UDA50 engineering drawings
contain pinouts
> of the 32 pin connector for the coax SDI cables, for those brave
> enough to try;) I'm assuming that the "L" sides of the pulse
> transformers correspond to the coax shield.
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/disc/UDA50/MP01331_UDA50_EngrDrws.pdf
Adrian> Page 43 is the important one since it details the connector,
Adrian> but AFAIK it's not coax, it's a ribbon cable, though I guess
Adrian> the principle is the same. You could get a correct result
Adrian> using chopped up IDE cables perhaps......
Ribbon coax, I believe. Not all flat cable is just parallel wires,
far from it.
Ribbon coax is obtainable but often not easy to work with. But
regular coax will work just as well, so long as you keep the lengths
matched reasonably well.
paul