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Join Date: Oct 2004
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Concealed Scart Cable
Hello everyone, this is my 1st post so please be gentle!
I hope this is the right forum for this, but if anyone can suggest a better place to try, I would be grateful. I am trying to put a small TV in the corner of a room, and conceal all the cables as much as possible. I am really trying to avoid trunking if at all possible. I have installed a new mains socket just behind the TV, and also a new RF aerial point that has Sky with Magic Eye routed through it. The problem I have is the Scart cable. Ideally I want to just have a Scart faceplate on the wall linked to another Scart faceplate about 7.5 metres away. I want to route the cable through the loft space, but although I can just about use a soldering iron, I really don't want to have to solder 42 connections to attach the ends to the backs of the faceplates, especially as they will both be in awkward locations! I have seen in the past, various connectors where you can solder little barbed pins onto the end of each wire, and THEN push them though the back of the socket, making things a bit simpler. I don't know if such Scart connectors can be bought however, or if there are any other easier options available. I don't want Scart plugs hanging out of the wall either, just in case I want to move the TV later. Any ideas gratefully received, as they might hope to keep MrsMez appeased! All the best MrMez (James)
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Cornwall, UK
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I didn't realise that you could get SCART wall plates. Googled on "scart wall plate" and found one:
http://www.euronetwork.co.uk/acatalo...on_Plates.html. They also do S-Video / RCA combo plates. You may be better off using these. Less soldering, and the signal quality will probably be just as good over a long cable. S-Video cables will probably have better shielding than SCART. Cheers Steve |
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Thanks for that Steve. They look OK, but I definitely remember a few years ago you could get some kind of SCART plug/socket "kits" with 20 separate pins that could be soldered/crimped onto each wire, then they could be popped through the body of the socket into position. Made life much easier!
I wouldn't moan so much, but one SCART will be about 8 feet high, and I don't really want to spend any more time up there soldering than necessary! Also, I went to Maplin today and bought some of their decent SCART cable with lots of individually screened wires for £1.99 a metre. It's about as thick as my little finger so it ought to be bloody good! |
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Harrow, North London
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Connecting a SCART at 8 feet.
Just a thought. How about using small lengths of flexible wire soldered to the SCART at ground level then soldered to a small PCB mounted terminal block, also at ground level. Then all you have to do at 8 feet is strip back the ends on the cable and fit them into the screw connections on the terminal block. I assume you can't pull the cable down from the 8 feet to ground level and do the connecting there.
I don't fancy the idea of soldering/crimping separate pins/sockets on to the wire ends then inserting them into the empty SCART body. If you really want to do that, it is possible to remove the pins/sockets from a complete SCART, solder them, then re-insert them. All you need to remove them is a very small thin screwdriver to compress the barb which is retaining the connector in the SCART body. In some SCARTS, the two halves of the pin/socket is sprung and just needs compressing together to allow the connector to drop out. Good luck. oldie |
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