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Title: How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: Kevin on October 01, 2003, 02:53:58 PM: I was thinking of buying another 7-pin but I dont want to throw down 140. How do you mod a stock 7-pin cable? I think id rather just mod it myself since I have all the tools and im not in a hurry to get it done. If anyone could give me some directions I would greatly appreciate it.
Kevin
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: Brian Skalinder on October 01, 2003, 03:06:56 PM: Try this:

http://www.rockpark.com/d7/8_build.txt (http://www.rockpark.com/d7/8_build.txt)

Edit

Also try this:

http://www.fet.uni-hannover.de/~purnhage/dat/dat.html
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: Kevin on October 01, 2003, 03:19:38 PM: sorry should have made it clear -> I would buy the sony 7-pin then mod it so it sends and recieves signals. Building a 7-pin is way out of my league. thanks for the links ;)
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: Brian Skalinder on October 01, 2003, 03:43:17 PM: Quote from: Kevin on October 01, 2003, 03:19:38 PM
sorry should have made it clear -> I would buy the sony 7-pin then mod it so it sends and recieves signals. Building a 7-pin is way out of my league. thanks for the links ;)

I believe the above links will also help you mod the 7-pin for both in/output.

There are really 2 ways to do this:

[1] take the digi-out from the deck via 7-pin and route it to the output RCA

[2] Split the signal from the input RCA so it routes to both the 7-pin and the output RCA

The links should help you determine which of the 7 pins to use for [1]. I believe the Oade/ProDig aftermarket 7-pins are set up like [1].
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: Kevin on October 01, 2003, 03:48:20 PM: ye one of the links is what I was looking for :) oh and +T of course ;)
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: Chris K on October 01, 2003, 03:48:41 PM: http://www.scitaper.com/7pin.htm
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: Kevin on October 01, 2003, 04:54:51 PM: well I just gave in and bought one from pro digital and they are switches the connectors to right angles and it was about $122 total. Hopefully the one I have now works and ill just store this new one. All depends on my soldering ::)
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: jpschust on October 05, 2003, 08:06:53 PM: im really good with soldering small points but i wouldnt even touch the 7 pin situation unless i absolutely had to.
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: zhianosatch on October 05, 2003, 08:13:18 PM: so how do the pros do it?
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: jpschust on October 05, 2003, 08:14:03 PM: same way you or i would, but the markup on these thigns is tremendous due to the work involved
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: utahtaper on October 05, 2003, 10:04:34 PM: I made my own active 7 pin out of a Sony cable. At rat shack you buy a Y adapter and drill the rivet out so it comes apart. Then you take the 7 pin head apart VERY carefully. There are clips that can break if you are not carefull. I used cat 5 cable to go from the 7 pin head to the Y adapter. My cable resembles the Oades cable. Which is the best cable out there.
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: zhianosatch on October 05, 2003, 10:35:43 PM: got pics, utah?
Title: Re:How do you mod a stock 7-pin?
Post by: utahtaper on October 05, 2003, 11:05:57 PM: I don't have any. But I can say the active one is the hardest to build. You can make one out of the removed SBM-1 7 pin. Or the remote units you could buy to hook your D7,D8,D100,M1 up to a stereo and use a remote with. Those already have the cable connected to the 7 pin, you just have to figure out which cable is what. Of course these cables are not active.