Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:57:01 +0100
From: Francisco Salgado Cerredelo <fsalgado@ctv.es>
Subject: Re: DAT remote and digital interfaces

Heiko Purnhagen wrote:
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> Hello Francisco!
Hello Heiko,=20
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> Did you find an easy solution for making your own 7-pin plug??? (I'm
> still looking for good ideas.)

Well, I used recycled components, also. this damaged floppy unit had
several multi-wire connectors. One of them was a two row ten-plug
connected to ( of course ) a two level ten pin male soldered to the
printed circuit. The pin wires were rounded and with a thin diameter
that gently entered the holes of Sony's D8.

I unsoldered those pins, then took out the small jacks from the female
connector and I plug-in every pin to each mini-jack ( only seven pins,
of course- I trimmed the plastic carcase to only 4 holes per row) ,
soldered the pins to the jacks and  put them in again. This way I had a
female connector with seven pins comming out of the plastic carcase
holes.
And since the solded joint are inside the plastic carcase its well
finished  wothout any other work.

Of course the distance between pins were different, but they were almost
one centimeter long so it wasn't difficult to adjust them with my tool
(a long and thin beeked plier) to fit the distance, and since they are
that long they have the flexibility to fit comfortably in.
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Of course not everybody have a damaged unit, but maybe in an electronics
hardware store is easy to find a two-level multiconnector for flat
cable, or similar, that fits the job.

The photo-diode/photo-transistor pair is nice since you can integrate
them to the cable without the need of boxes, you have only to use some
isolating tape of the apropriate color.

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> Thanks for your feedback on my DAT DIY projects on the web. It is reall=
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> nice to see that this information is being reused (recycled :-) by othe=
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> DAT "freaks". If - from your experience - you have some hints/tips/etc.
> regarding these projects that might be of help for others who want to d=
o
> them please feel free to mail them to me so that I can include them in
> my DAT pages.

I am going to test something this week-end. If it goes OK I will let you
know. The idea is to use a normal sony TV remote to have a wireless
remote for commom funtions ( Play, forward, rewind, volume ).

The other thing I an looking for is this kit to bypass SCMS, and since I
didn't have any response I am looking for info about digital output
format, and see if I can use my computer to strip SCMS from the serial=20
stream.

Regards

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Francisco Salgado, La Coru=F1a, Espa=F1a
mailto:fsalgado@ctv.es  http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fsalgado