Thursday, December 24, 2009

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

Great story, thanks for sharing the epilogue!

Happy Holidays- may your non-profit efforts be rewarded ten-fold.
(or, you know, 72 Virgins, or whatever your holiday thing is...)

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Greg Huson
Secret Headquarters, Inc
Post Production / Production
Culver City, CA
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On Dec 24, 2009, at 4:03 PM, bcarroll@kvcr.org wrote:

>
>
> Shades of a Quinn-Martin Production with the epilogue, but I wanted
> to let everyone know how much I appreciated the input on my query
> and the final outcome. Not only did I get terrific advice from the
> group, but a couple of folks passed my predicament on to co-workers
> who contacted me off-list with additional information. Randy Patrick
> of PCS Production Co. in Irving, Texas emailed me with a detailed
> description of how his 110 switcher was configured which confirmed
> what I suspected from the other info I received that I had just
> missed the tally common pin. Then on Tuesday afternoon my phone rang
> and it was Chris Merrill - Product Manager, Live Production for
> Grass Valley in Nevada City, California calling to tell me that in
> their archives he had found a manual for the model 110 switcher and
> provided me with a scan via email of the 4 pages related to hooking
> up the tally lights and the GPI triggers! Can you believe that
> service?!?! I didn't even have to call for Tech Support – they
> called ME! LOL
>
> On Tuesday evening I visited the local non-profit's studio and
> hooked up the tally lights – they work perfectly! Thanks again to
> everyone that contributed to this thread and a successful solution
> to my problem.
>
> This is a testament to the power of this list and the generous
> nature of mankind in general. I'm sure the time of year didn't hurt
> either. Goodwill towards all, etc.
>
> Happy Holiday's to all on the Avid-L2!
>
> 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, 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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