Re: Camcorder/scart info please

["Campbell" <c.macd@xxxxxxx>]

Nigel,

Thanks for your comments/info.

The camcorder was dropped and now fails to power up at all. Any ideas
gratefully received. It would be nice to play with the bits (probably annoy
my wife, as I've lots of jobs!!! to finish). It is a Ferguson F8. A few
years old but still quite good.

General question relating to Henry's boardcams.
Who is using the housing from Henry's, are they cumbersome and do they look
OK. The picture makes them look very large and cumbersome.

Maybe I could use my motorised zoom and put it on a colour boardcam ??

thanks
Campbell
http://www.cmacd.co.uk
http://www.btinternet.com/~c.macd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Orr" <Nigel.Orr@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Camcorder/scart info please


> At 20:48 13/06/00 +0100, you wrote:
> >I am currently setting up the comfort relays to do some switching,
with
x10
> >controlling the power and was trying to minimise cable runs.
>
> You can never have too much cable!  I think I've mentioned that
before...
> buy a load of cheap cable (either the 8core screened stuff from
Comfort,
or
> unscreened cat-5 from anywhere), and run 2 or 3 spare cables on each
run-
> it only costs an extra pound or two, and leaves much more flexibility
for
> later.
>
> >I will use 6
> >core which should mean only the left and right audio grounds are
commoned.
>
> I presume you are proposing:
> Video
> 12V
> Video Gnd
> Left
> Right
> Audio Gnd
>
> That's probably fine (do you actually need stereo?)
>
>  > As I said previously I intended using two camcorders, but my son
dropped one
> >which no longer works. I took it to bits last night looking for
the easy
to
> >fix broken connection or component, with no luck :-(
>
> What's it stopped doing?  If it won't come on at all, it's probably
> straightforwardish, if it comes on but does very odd things, it might
be
> straightforward, or it might be too tricky...
>
> >Anyway now I,ve got a bag of bits reluctantly destined for the bin
(I
>
> Nooooooo... :-)
>
>  > Time to get a B&W board from Henry's, when I get paid.
>
> Now I've had the chance to compare the Henry's one and the similarly
cheap
> B&Q one (Kingfisher or something like that?), the Henrys one did
seem much
> better.  The B&Q seems to suffer vertical 'streaks', which I
presume is
the
> CCD element column getting confused/overloaded, and it has had little
fits
> where there is a solid black vertival line at one point in the picture
(do
> CCDs suffer latchup?  It went away when I power cycled it)
>
> Dunno about the other B&Q one (Ring), but I think someone here had
one.
>
> Nigel
>
>
>
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