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Old 10-05-2007, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by allan gould View Post
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Easy said than done. When I pulled apart the firewire connector it had immediately under the plastic outer coat a web of fine wires which were insulated with clear wrapping from an inner nest of : two black wires and two additional web of wires each enclosing a green and red or an orange and blue wire.
This makes a total of 6 wires in all plus 3 layers of webbed wires.
A fine nest of stuff. Guess I will try and find which carry the digital video signal
Hi Allan,

Yes, no argument there, I was thinking though of a single conductor braided shield cable, which is all you can connect to a standard RCA plug. The ground pin on a standard USB plug, A or B, is no. 4, so that is the braid connection, and all you then need is to find which other one has the data signal. It could be either 2 or 3, pin 1 being voltage usually.

See

http://pinouts.ru/SerialPortsCables/...e_pinout.shtml

but this is for full-blown data transmission. I agree though that wiring up a mini USB plug would not be all that easy.

Cheers

GeoffW1
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