Monday, December 21, 2009

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

When you say "counting from the power input" is that tally power input or the power cord for ac? I'm just curious I don't have a 110 where I'm at now.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "James Hoppe" <james.hoppe@...> wrote:
>
> Looking at the back of the unit, the Common for the Tally looks like it is
> pin 12 out of 20 counting from the power input. From the look of ours, I
> hope they don't have more than 8 camera's.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bcarroll@...>
> To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 2:59 PM
> Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: OT: Grass Valley 110 switcher tally lights
>
>
> >
> >
> > Good grief, Charlie Brown! GVG 110 switcher for $200??? That's just wrong
> on so many levels! LOL Time marches on and you either keep up or get run
> over like Grandma by the reindeer.
> >
> > Thanks to Pete for the ebay link. Unfortunately that's the Operator's
> Manual which we already have. It teaches you how to do a dissolve or wipe
> from camera 1 to camera 2, etc. Not quite what I'm looking for. We need the
> Maintenance Manual which I haven't been able to locate. I did just now take
> another look at the grassvalley.com web site and decided to take a gander at
> the .pdf for the Model 110-HD switcher. They have a nice section on hooking
> up the tally lights and I think I may have discovered my error. On the HD
> switcher the Chassis Ground is connected to the shield of your tally cable
> while you use pin 1 for input 1 and then Tally Common for the other lead. I
> don't remember seeing a pin labeled Tally Common, but the unit is already in
> the rack and it IS dark back there with a lot of cables in the way. I saw
> the Chassis Ground and pins 1-8 and jumped to a conclusion that's apparently
> wrong. I will check it out when I'm there next and see if this new
> information is enoug!
> > h to get me on the right track.
> >
> > Thanks for the input. Just talking these things out with someone is often
> all it takes to get things sorted out.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bob Carroll
> >
> > Producer/Director
> > KVCR-DT (PBS)
> > 701 S. Mt. Vernon Ave.
> > San Bernardino, CA 92410
> > 909-384-4334
> >
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Pete Opotowsky <popix@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > *
> > > > *
> > > > *Bob-*
> > > > *http://tinyurl.com/y878xvr*
> > > > *$20 on ebay*
> > > > *HTH*
> > > > *Pete Opotowsky*
> > > > *POP Pictures*
> > > > *Orlando*
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 12/18/2009 9:18 PM, bcarroll@ wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anyone here have experience with the Grass Valley 110 switcher and
> can you shed any light on what I should do to make this work? Thanks in
> advance for any info you can provide.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Bob Carroll
> > > > >
> > > > > Producer/Director
> > > > > KVCR-DT (PBS)
> > > > > 701 S. Mt. Vernon Ave.
> > > > > San Bernardino, CA 92410
> > > > > 909-384-4334
> > > > >
> > > > >
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