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Article #15767Re: Sony control L
From: Terry Quinn
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:36
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:36
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> : Does anyone know where I can find details of Sony control L?
>
> The only information I have got is here: A couple of years ago Sony
> used round 5-pin connector for the same purpose as now popular 2.5 mm
> minijack, which is nowadays in Sony camcorders. That info I got from
> Sony Finland who promised to send me a adapter cable to convert from 5-pin
> to 2.5 mm minijack! (I have not received one yet - but hope soon!)
I don't have any information on the technical specs, but I can
give you the polarity on the 5 pin to 2.5 mm connection, as was
provided to me by a friend. It is a two conductor connection.
5 pin connector, pins facing you
-----
/ o \
/ \
| o 0 o |
| |
\C o o A/
----^----
----------------\
Stereo Mini-Mini (greatly blown up) | \
| \
| |
/ ----------------------------| |
/ A | B | C | |
\ | | | |
\ ----------------------------| |
| |
| |
| |
\---------------- |
|__|
Connect A to A and C to C. B is unused and there is NO other
connection, including the shield on the 5 pin.
--
Terry Quinn
Germantown Hills, IL
tquinn@heartland.bradley.edu
from Compuserve . . . >INTERNET: tquinn@heartland.bradley.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!gateway From: tquinn@heartland.bradley.edu (Terry Quinn) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Sony control L Date: 17 Dec 1992 17:36:55 -0600 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 51 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9212172336.AA18166@heartland.bradley.edu_> Reply-To: tquinn@heartland.bradley.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu