Slink-e / CDJ Discussion Archive #1

Beware of ports labeled Control-S / S-Link

Posted By: Colby Boles <cboles@s...>
Date: Friday, 28 August 1998, at 10:36 a.m.

At 10:58 AM 8/28/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I read through the BBS email and found that my symptom of hard-on yellow
>light is a grounded connector problem. Or at least I assume that I have the
>same problem. Using the supplied mono cable, the software doesn't see the
>slink-e when it is plugged into the DSS. So either the cable lines need to
>be swapped or it is using a three conductor like the vcr mouse. I don't
>know if the VCR mouse is slink or not. The port I was using was labeled
>control s in/s-link. The port the mouse was plugged into was labeled
>control s out/mouse. I measured the voltage on the slink port and it reads
>.333v from tip to shank. It looks like a mono plug. The mouse port reads 5v
>from tip to shank with the middle "ring" driven at -0v to shank and 5v to
>tip so it looks like it is grounded. From reading the slink-e schematic it
>looks like the signal should be on tip. I don't know why the yellow light
>comes on and stays on when I plug in the mono cable unless that cable's tip
>is too long. I did try the trick of pulling it out a little.
>
>Greg

Responses To This Message

• Re: Beware of ports labeled Control-S / S-Link - Jon Welfringer - 8/30/98 3:11pm

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