SDI Out Plugs

David Lorente · March 13th, 2008, 08:38 AM

Maybe a good idea will be to plug in a BNC-to-RCA converter. It's cheap , small, and will protect the female BNC plug of the camera. And since it is fixed with the bayonet of the plug, it won't be easily detached by accident.

Doug Park · March 14th, 2008, 12:48 AM

Mine didn't even make it out of the box with one. Must have gotten left on the factory floor in Japan.

Mika Tertsunen · March 15th, 2008, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Alexander Kubalsky

the trauma we have all been through to keep this precious plug. I dont use that port but will at some point. Are the cables that plug into it expensive? I might just buy one, plug it in and snip it off at the base. that should stay in tighter and not stick out too much.

Alexander,
the plug (or the cap) is not precious at all and certainly shouldn´t cause trauma. It really is a bit cosmetic. Broadcast cameras are being tossed around all the time with no caps on the ports and they never fail because of that. The connector is recessed and therefore quite safe. There won´t be any dirt going in the camera through it either.
The worst thing to do is to insert a dummy plug that sticks out, hitting such a thing might cause the circuit board or whatever the connector is soldered on to break. That would be a real problem. Let it be, should there be dirt in the connector; just clean it.

March 13th, 2008, 08:38 AM	#16
David Lorente Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cuenca (Spain) Posts: 92	Maybe a good idea will be to plug in a BNC-to-RCA converter. It's cheap , small, and will protect the female BNC plug of the camera. And since it is fixed with the bayonet of the plug, it won't be easily detached by accident. __________________ Wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Radio operates exactly the same way, but there is no cat.

March 14th, 2008, 12:48 AM	#17
Doug Park New Boot Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 23	Mine didn't even make it out of the box with one. Must have gotten left on the factory floor in Japan.