Didaktik video connector

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• guesser

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  They aren't just a female belling-lee connector (aka IEC 169-2)?

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• schombi

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  I guess you?re right, thanks! I thought there was only one type of RF cable...
  
  So I?d need a female connector on the Didaktik side, but what on the LCD side, if I don?t want to go for the aerial in? Is there an adapter from IEC to the yellow AV in?

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• guesser

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  schombi wrote: »

  I guess you?re right, thanks! I thought there was only one type of RF cable...

  
  Oh there are many :)
  
  what do you use in Germany? F connectors?

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• schombi

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  guesser wrote: »

  Oh there are many :)
  
  what do you use in Germany? F connectors?

  
  In the old days, we used simply used the same cables as we have on the Spectrum. Later on we had the F type.
  
  I still don?t get the point how to connect from IEC to AV-in.

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• 1024MAK

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  You may have already tried this, but if the computer composite output is using a
  IEC 169-2 TV connector, and your TV has a Phono/RCA/cinch connector for the composite input, try using a standard Spectrum aerial lead in reverse...
  
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• schombi

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  Wow, so simple! You?re a star. Reversing the Spectrum RF cable and putting the other end on the AV-in did the job, see http://schombi.de/public.html
  
  Thanks everybody for your comments!

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• schombi

  October 2013 edited October 2013

  Hmm, feet back on the ground. Worked great on the Didaktik Gama, but my Didaktik M does not show any signal at all, neiter on the TV nor on the video connector. I even tried an old style CRT. However, the M powers up, showing a green LED and when a key is pressed, a beep can be heard. Does anyone have an idea?

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