SCART through the wall
 

On 8 Sep, 13:09, "Java Jive" wrote:
I tried theSCARTwall-plate method, with mixed success ...

You can find plates easily enough, but the ones I've got are not very
robust, and barely grip the leads, which tend to fall out. I used a
multi-core cable from Maplin, and the soldering was very fiddly - a
question of accidentally breaking off one connection for every two that you
succeed in soldering. I only get CV through it, not RGB, despite, I
believe, wiring it correctly, and there's ghosting.

But it does mean I can watch anything piped from my bedroom/office such as
tennis or skiing while I'm getting a meal ready.

Note that normalSCARTleads cross-wire pin pairs 1 & 2, 3 & 6, and 19 & 20,
in the diagram below (to view it you may have to copy and paste it into
something that uses a fixed width font such as Notepad). This means that if
you insert a wall-section between two sockets, you will have three sections
of lead - kit item #1 to wall, wall section, and wall to kit #2 - and to
maintain the cross-wiring, your wall section must also cross-wire the same
pin pairs ...

Eg (needs fixed width font):
#1---W----W---#2
1 \/ 2 \/ 1 \/ 2
2 /\ 1 /\ 2 /\ 1

+-----+
| × | Pin 1 Audio out R
| × | Pin 2 Audio in R
| × | Pin 3 Audio out L
| × | Pin 4 Audio ground
| × | Pin 5 Blue ground
| × | Pin 6 Audio in L
| × | Pin 7 Blue in
| × | Pin 8 Status (low = TV, 5v = 16:9 in, 12v = 4:3 in)
| × | Pin 9 Green ground
| × | Pin 10 Comm D²B invert
| × | Pin 11 Green in
| × | Pin 12 Comm D²B
| × | Pin 13 RGB = Red ground, S-Video = C ground
| × | Pin 14 D²B ground
| × | Pin 15 RGB = Red in, S-Video = C in
| × | Pin 16 Status (low = CVBS, high = RGB)
| × | Pin 17 CVBS (video) ground
| × | Pin 18 RGB Status ground
| × | Pin 19 Composite out
| × | Pin 20 Composite or Luminance in
| ___| Pin 21 Casing-socket ground
| /
|/


Hi,

Im doing a similar thing, chasing in cables so that my sony bravia
doesn't have any trailing leads.

I've put up a mains socket, spured off of the nearest outlet, my next
move is to mount a Scart wall plate behind the TV running a cable in
the wall to a second outlet near to where my sky box is.

I've got the wall plates and I also ordered a metre of flat scart
cable http://www.keene.co.uk/electronics/m...p?mycode=KBL27

my question is, how do I wire up the wall plates using this cable, the
description states "21 pin flat scart cable" but in actual fact the
ribon contains 13 screened coax wires - does anyone have a diagram to
show which colour wire goes to which pin and if its the core or the
screen? - or does it matter as long as I achieve the above?

Darren

SCART through the wall
 

In article .com,
Darren wrote:
I've put up a mains socket, spured off of the nearest outlet, my next
move is to mount a Scart wall plate behind the TV running a cable in
the wall to a second outlet near to where my sky box is.

I've got the wall plates and I also ordered a metre of flat scart
cable http://www.keene.co.uk/electronics/m...p?mycode=KBL27

my question is, how do I wire up the wall plates using this cable, the
description states "21 pin flat scart cable" but in actual fact the
ribon contains 13 screened coax wires - does anyone have a diagram to
show which colour wire goes to which pin and if its the core or the
screen? - or does it matter as long as I achieve the above?

Google for "scart wiring diagram" and you'll find several diagrams.

For long cable runs you've got the right kind of cable if it includes
several separately screened co-axial cables, rather than simple
multicore with lots of single wires. You should connect the signal and
screen wires of each co-ax to the appropriate pins.

Rod.

SCART through the wall
 

"Roderick Stewart" wrote in message
.. .
For long cable runs you've got the right kind of cable if it includes
several separately screened co-axial cables, rather than simple
multicore with lots of single wires.
These are no good for short runs. You can get crosstalk in half a metre.

Bill

SCART through the wall
 

In article , Bill Wright
wrote:
For long cable runs you've got the right kind of cable if it includes
several separately screened co-axial cables, rather than simple
multicore with lots of single wires.
These are no good for short runs. You can get crosstalk in half a metre.

Quite. I would recommend using the correct cable whatever the run length,
but the problems become a lot worse for longer runs. And the fact remains
that SCART cables are manufactured using ordinary multicore, and people do
buy them, and are presumably happy with what they see and hear....

Rod.

SCART through the wall
 

"Roderick Stewart" wrote in message
.. .
Quite. I would recommend using the correct cable whatever the run length,
but the problems become a lot worse for longer runs. And the fact remains
that SCART cables are manufactured using ordinary multicore, and people do
buy them, and are presumably happy with what they see and hear....

Pigs are happy with rotten apples.

Bill