@kkarhan@foone oh, right. I forgot about that. in North America they've been separate RCA plugs for a really long time and were either 1/4" jacks or just bare wire you wrap around a screw prior to that lol
and I'm really only going into how it works because I was opening it up and it's fucking gorgeous inside. Look at this! it's a bunch of tightly packed vertical boards!
@henryk@foone They connect to Ground that is not guaranteed to have 12V potential against the 12V-plus.
DC sometimes is as weird as one would imagine AC to be.
@nblr
Signal ground can be somewhere else in professional video. Sometimes it's all over the place. And it's no problem as long you keep power-referenced ground out of reach. So, perfectly normal, I think.
Btw... Are the 12V on different rails on the supply side (as in twin supply)? @henryk@foone
@byteborg@henryk@foone I’ve recently been to a place where +48-60V is ground and minus is triple-digits of Amperes lethal. Anything goes in the DC world.
so I'd also need to hack a connector for the auto-iris lens to get this to work. I thought I could just temporarily power it and get it to open up and let me use it fixed-iris/fixed-focus, but nope! the way it controls the iris means as soon as you remove the power, it closes
god damn it, this was all avoidable. This camera was in a characteristic nest of wires and bodges that screamed "someone has hacked on this before, and came away unsatisfied". and this is why. The fuse is blown, the auto-iris lens is shut, and it's outputting PAL in an ex-NTSC territory.
@spinach Nah. Looking at the docs, they don't support that. I guess because this thing is intended for computer-based imaging and not broadcast video, they figured PAL would give them higher resolution so why bother?
@foone I mean I guess but you can still run into aliasing differences that would look inconsistent next to NTSC. Only way I can see it making sense is if the same company made similar model numbers with the same board and having to support more than PAL would be more hardware design work
@foone PAL at 50Hz or PAL at 60? The amount of stuff I've seen emit the latter as some sort of debug/ kludge mode in the US market is surprisingly high, as it sort of matches PAL-M for Brazil, and it was a big thing to grey import tech from the likes of Florida to Brazil a decade or so ago.
@foone Just looking at those sort of bulbs makes the end of my fingers feel burned from my childhood of trying to remove them from the dome light of a car while still on. 😂
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