[Avid-L2] Re: OT: Grass Valley 110 switcher tally lights

Can you believe that you have to find the manual on Ebay? I was surprised perusing the GVG sight how little effort is being put into info on old equipment. I know their product line has moved on but these are the guys I use to call at 7:00 pm Sunday night when I'd perhaps overstepped my technical limits and buggered up something and I'd get a call back from some tech who was on call. Has Thompson's reign really F'd up support for legacy equipment. I recall sending in a Thompson Digibeta for warranty service and it took them 6 weeks to get the machine back. It was a Sony with the Thompson moniker. They even wanted us to ship it to Neveda so they would then ship it back to Burbank for repair and back to Neveda and then back to us and we were in Burbank. I think we were able to avoid the shipping nonsence but 6 weeks was really long. Oh well time marches on with the race to the bottom.

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> > Of all the message boards that I frequent, THIS ONE is the most likely to have an answer to this question. I help out a local non-profit with their studio shoots and recently their old Echolab switcher gave up the ghost. Fortunately they received a donation of an old Grass Valley 110 switcher just in time. Unfortunately it came without a manual and I'm having no luck in sorting out how to hook up the tally lights to the Sony camera control units. The Sony's want a contact closure to light up and while I see a group of pins on the back of the Grass Valley labeled Tally I'm not measuring a voltage or a contact closure from any of the pins labeled 1-8 and the pin labeled ground.
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