SCART through the wall
zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk
As part of the upgrade to my "Poor Mans Home Cinema System", I am
going to get a BT Vision box. In order to make room for this I plan to
move the Sky box to the next room, but would like to still connect up
to the VCR via SCART.
I don't think the memsahib would be happy with huge holes drilled in
the wall, so can anyone recommend a SCART lead which could be
partially dismantled, and would then fit through a smaller hole than
other?
R. Mark Clayton
<zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk> wrote in message
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Most of them dismantle.
You might be better getting a Scart face plate and wiring up properly.
The VCR connection does not need to be fully wired.
Paul D.Smith
Is your wall solid or hollow? If the latter, how about cutting a slot,
passing through the cable and then plastering up the hole (look for
aluminium mesh that can be laid over the slot to form something for the
plaster to grip)? Would even work for solid walls but clearly more effort
required cutting the hole.
Alternatively, wall mounted SCART socket each side and carefully wire
between them yourself?
Paul DS.
zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk
> <zikkimala...@connectfree.co.uk> wrote in message
All good suggestions Paul. It is a solid (from memory very solid!)
wall, and I don't think i'll get planning permission to make large
holes in it (even temporarily) I also don't fancy wiring up 21 pins
each side. I might see if I can figure out which pins the Hitachi VCR
uses for it's "Wake me up and i'll record" feature, and then i've just
got to do Composite out, Audio Out L&R, and the switching pin, that
wouldn't bee too bad.
Dr Zoidberg
It's often pretty simple to pop the pins out of the plugs themselves making
it very easy to thread through a hole , especially if you are only using
composite video and a cable with fewer wires
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Bill Wright
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This is what I usually do, using miniature 75ohm coax from Maplins. The
other oprion is to use a ribbon scart from CPC and cut it (diagonally).
Rolled up it will pass thro a small hole and they are very easy to join up
again using solder and heat shrink.
Bill
Dave Plowman (News)
Pretty well all of the normal round cable SCART leads can have the plug
removed and replaced. But you'll need to be reasonably good at soldering
and possess a suitable soldering iron. Or you could simply hack off the
plug if it's moulded on and fit a new one - they can be bought from Maplin
etc for about a quid. Cut into the old plug and use that as a guide to
where the wires go. Note they are not the same at both ends - some, but
not all, reverse at one end as they are both inputs and outputs. Some flat
leads can be opened up too.
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Ivan
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Or if the O/P only requires stereo audio with 'composite' video, then a
single molded AV phono lead with a couple of those switched phono in/out
Scart adapters on each end would do the job nicely, and as long as the plugs
were fed through individually, then the hole size could be kept down to a
minimum.
> Bill
>
Robin
If by any chance you have fitted carpets and floor boards on each side
of the wall you may be able to lift one each side, pass through (and
under) a ribbon cable and then replace the boards with the cable coming
through gap between boards, and then fold it under the carpet to come up
by the skirting board. Not a good thing in terms of potential wear and
tear on the cable of course but it might be an acceptable DIY bodge if
there is little traffic over the cable?
But if you are blessed with modern concrete floors .....
--
Robin
ThePunisher
> Hi All,
>
> As part of the upgrade to my "Poor Mans Home Cinema System", I am
> going to get a BT Vision box. In order to make room for this I plan to
> move the Sky box to the next room, but would like to still connect up
> to the VCR via SCART.
>
My suggestion, stop living in a cupboard.
--
ThePunisher
zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk
The room is plenty big enough (and the floors are 1948 concrete
covered in bitumen) it's just that the gap between the shelf and the
underside of the TV is vertically challenged. I have already applied
for an import licence for a new stand and a 28" Sony Trinitron that a
friend of my brother is throwing out, but was refused :=((.
I think I will go for making up a SCART cable from a nice offcut of 4
individualy screened coax cable type cable i've just scrounged, or
else go for the SCART at one end and phonos at the other with a phono
to scart converter to finish the job.
ChrisM
zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk <zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk> Proclaimed
from the tallest tower:
http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/5m-through-wall-scart.html
??
--
Regards,
Chris.
(Remove Elvis's shoes to email me)
ChrisM
zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk <zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk> Proclaimed
from the tallest tower:
> Hi All,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marmitek-Invisible-Scart-200-wireless/dp/B000MFK2OC
???????
zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk
> In message 1189003996.144422.249...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com,
> zikkimala...@connectfree.co.uk <zikkimala...@connectfree.co.uk> Proclaimed
> from the tallest tower:
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > As part of the upgrade to my "Poor Mans Home Cinema System", I am
> > going to get a BT Vision box. In order to make room for this I plan to
> > move the Sky box to the next room, but would like to still connect up
> > to the VCR via SCART.
>
> > I don't think the memsahib would be happy with huge holes drilled in
> > the wall, so can anyone recommend a SCART lead which could be
> > partially dismantled, and would then fit through a smaller hole than
> > other?
>
£29 Blinking flip mother! I said it was a POOR man's Home Cinema.
Actually, that product does look interesting, for if we ever wanted to
put all the boxes on the other side of the wall. I don't know if it
would cope with the autoswitch on of the VCR though.
I've checked the cableing i've got and it's 5 individualy screened &
insulated coax, so that's 2 for audio, 1 for composite, one for pin 8
and it's return. Do I need to connect up pin 16? If not could I use
the fifth coax for rf2 out (to drive the TV link (Magic Eye)).
ChrisM
zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk <zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk> Proclaimed
from the tallest tower:
> On 6 Sep, 16:44, "ChrisM" <chris_mayersb...@suedeyahoo.com> wrote:
>> In message 1189003996.144422.249...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com,
>> zikkimala...@connectfree.co.uk <zikkimala...@connectfree.co.uk>
>> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>
>>> As part of the upgrade to my "Poor Mans Home Cinema System", I am
>>> going to get a BT Vision box. In order to make room for this I plan
>>> to move the Sky box to the next room, but would like to still
>>> connect up to the VCR via SCART.
>>
>>> I don't think the memsahib would be happy with huge holes drilled in
>>> the wall, so can anyone recommend a SCART lead which could be
>>> partially dismantled, and would then fit through a smaller hole than
>>> other?
>>
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marmitek-Invisible-Scart-200-wireless/dp/B000...
>
>
> £29 Blinking flip mother! I said it was a POOR man's Home Cinema.
>
> Actually, that product does look interesting, for if we ever wanted to
> put all the boxes on the other side of the wall. I don't know if it
> would cope with the autoswitch on of the VCR though.
>
> I've checked the cableing i've got and it's 5 individualy screened &
> insulated coax, so that's 2 for audio, 1 for composite, one for pin 8
> and it's return. Do I need to connect up pin 16? If not could I use
> the fifth coax for rf2 out (to drive the TV link (Magic Eye)).
Hmm, sorry, didn't really look at the price, just did a search for ways of
transferring SCART 'through' a wall.
Not sure about how it would cope with autoswitching, depends if it is fully
'wired' or not I suppose.
Did you see my other post(the SCART lead with un-pluggable ends)?
Can't answer your other questions I'm afraid, you'll have to wait for one of
those experts to turn up... :-)
zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk
> In message 1189166153.849220.188...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com,
Ah! The posts were so similar, I unwittingly thought it was a double
posting, and only followed the link in one. That product does look
interesting, but I think for various reasons I will DIY.
Java Jive
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 normal SCART leads 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
| /
|/
"Paul D.Smith" <paul_d...@x-hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> <zikkim...@connectfree.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1189003996.1...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > As part of the upgrade to my "Poor Mans Home Cinema System", I am
> > going to get a BT Vision box. In order to make room for this I plan to
> > move the Sky box to the next room, but would like to still connect up
> > to the VCR via SCART.
> >
> > I don't think the memsahib would be happy with huge holes drilled in
> > the wall, so can anyone recommend a SCART lead which could be
> > partially dismantled, and would then fit through a smaller hole than
> > other?
>
Kirk Northrop
> 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.
Can you not get them with the same backplate that Ethernet wall plates
have - ie you just line them up and punch in with a tool (or screwdriver)?
--
Kirk
Java Jive
"Kirk Northrop" <kirkno...@no.spam.please.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
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Darren
> 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.
>
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/multi.php?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
Roderick Stewart
> 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/multi.php?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.
Bill Wright
"Roderick Stewart" <escap...@removethisbit.beeb.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
Bill
Roderick Stewart
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.
Dave Plowman (News)
<1i4173x.8ms9qi1yhrbswN%Spa...@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid>,
Alan Pemberton <Spa...@pembers.freeserve.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> Popping the pins out is a bit dodgy. They often don't lock properly when
> you put them back in and can disappear inside the plug whenever you plug
> them in, resulting in annoyingly baffling no-signal faults.
You need to bend out the locking sprag slightly before re-inserting the
blade. Same as any such connector which holds the 'pins' in such a way.
--
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Bill Wright
"Roderick Stewart" <escap...@removethisbit.beeb.net> wrote in message
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> 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