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

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@kvcr.org>
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)
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> --- 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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