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zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

i'll check when i get back home. i don't remember what it said for sync.

it's starting to look like i'm cabling up the rtc2200 incorrectly, but i can match colours with the best of them Smile

i wonder if i have a problem in one of the VGA-RGBHV cables that markertek sold me...

dbaisey · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject:

zap,
Might try plugging in your local monitor to the 2200 just to check. Doug

beun · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 676

It is easy to mix H-sync and V-sync as there is no real standard with respect to colors.

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

**kal** · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

yeah, i was reading that last night. my confusion is Kim saying yesterday that the units ship with neg sync

beun · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 676

Zap,

When you haven't changed anything it is negative sync. If you haven't solved this issue by tonight I will ship you a new one, maybe something happened during transport.

Kim

dbaisey · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject:

zap,
The XG can take just about anything you can throw at it. You just need to do the signal entry for the right signal properties and have a usable signal going to it. It may be the computer that sees the RTC2200 as a different monitor and driver but ??

In short the XG will take any combo of sync polarities. Done many of Kims and never had a problem before. Doug

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

very generous. but wait until i give you the nod that i've tried a few things. i might not get to it tonight, even if that is the plan, it might be friday before i get to it.

dbaisey · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject:

Hmmm,
Cable at the projector. You don't have R on the ACAT connector do you? Doug

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

i don't think so...

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5321

pictures of your cabling might help?

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

found the problem. cables. i rememberd that i have a pair of long VGA -> 5BNC cables and used them to install the RTC2200 instead of the pair of 6" ones i was using. powered up the PJ and got a great picture. it's a "new signal" but looks identical to the SXVGA that i was using. i'll do a data copy and rename it SXVGAkim or something Smile

Kim - thanks for the offer of shipping a new one, but it looks like there is nothing wrong with the one that i have.

now to see which of the cables is making a return trip to Markertek ...

zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

yep, looks like Markertek puts pin 14 to black and pin 13 to yellow. all my other cables have that reversed.

so i was feeding the 2200 with H and V sync swapped and then feeding the XG from the 2200 with H and V sync swapped. no wonder the XG was trying to sync on green.

"i've looked every where for sync - maybe i'll find it over here...."

sigh. now to label the darn yellows "this is really black" and the black "this is really yellow" so that i don't get bit again...

thank you to everyone who offered suggestions. and Kim for offering to ship up a new unit before we had even confirmed that it was the problem.

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beun · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 676

Yeah, there doesn't seem to be a standard for the colors of the H/V leads, tey can be white/black or black/white of something complete different.