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7 pin mods?
« on: August 21, 2004, 05:05:24 PM »
Anyone know if a 7 pin coax input cable can be modded to make a 7 pin optical out cable? Any help is appreciated. THanks

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Re: 7 pin mods?
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2004, 11:34:16 AM »
Anyone know if a 7 pin coax input cable can be modded to make a 7 pin optical out cable? Any help is appreciated. THanks

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I have no idea if you can do it, but I'd imagine it would be difficult.  You would need to have some kind of circuit which included an optical transmitter to make it work, and this would need to be built and put inside the very small 7-pin housing.  I think a far easier plan of attack would be to modify an existing sony 7-pin in/out optical cable to include an electrical (coax) input.  Then all the circuitry for the optical out would already be there, and the electrical coax input would just need wires attached directly to the correct pins on the 7 pin (receive and gnd)--no need to develop micro-circuitry.  I've never opened up a 7-pin optical cable, but the electrical 7-pin cables have the pins extended up through the shell casing into the encased circuit board and are fairly accessible.  Doing it this way, you'd just have to rip out the optical input cable and then solder on a RCA coax input cable onto the correct pins.
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Re: 7 pin mods?
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2004, 10:00:38 PM »
Thanks for the reply

 

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