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WTB: Whipcable for PulsarI

Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2016 9:22 am
by FernandoHood
Want to buy the Whipcable for Pulsar I
please.

Shipping to Portugal

Re: WTB: BackPlate for PulsarI , II

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 6:54 am
by FernandoHood
bump....rly needing this...

Re: WTB: BackPlate for PulsarI , II

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:17 am
by sunmachine
Hi Fernando,
what exactly are you looking for?
Just the breakout cable or an I/O plate with breakout cable?
The I/O plate can only be used with a Pulsar 2 card as far as I know.
And if you're just looking for the breakout cable you have to get one that matches your card, i. e. you can't use the XLR version if your card was made for the RCA one and vice versa!

Re: WTB: BackPlate for PulsarI , II

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:39 am
by faxinadu
im not sure thats true, you should be able to use either

Re: WTB: BackPlate for PulsarI , II

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:28 am
by sunmachine
faxinadu wrote:im not sure thats true, you should be able to use either
There are several threads here where it's being said that the cable whips are not interchangeable due to the different signal levels.
See here for example:
http://forums.scopeusers.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18154

http://forums.scopeusers.com/viewtopic. ... 42#p304742

So, I'd stay safe and use the matching cable whip! :)

Re: WTB: BackPlate for PulsarI , II

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:30 am
by FernandoHood
Hi,
i have one exacly has the one in the picture for PULSAR II,
What i need now is for Pulsar1, would preffer XLR I/O.

well iam also not sure about if needs to be xlr or rca...
BUT Ican test tonight that breakout cable w/ XLR I/O in pulsar1 and see if it works..

Re: WTB: BackPlate for PulsarI , II

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:40 am
by sunmachine
FernandoHood wrote: well iam also not sure about if needs to be xlr or rca...
BUT Ican test tonight that breakout cable w/ XLR I/O in pulsar1 and see if it works..
Maybe you should ask Gary if there's a risk to damage the card by using the wrong cable... better safe than sorry! ;)

Re: WTB: BackPlate for PulsarI , II

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 10:35 am
by garyb
no risk of damage that i know of....
but there's also no advantage over using the right cable with an adapter.
changing the cable whip won't balance the signal, nor will it change the level from consumer to pro or vice versa.

you really DO need to use the correct cable with the i/o plate that you have.

Re: WTB: BackPlate for PulsarI , II

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 11:03 am
by faxinadu
well yeah you might get "wrong" levels but that is probably the only issue. midi and digital i/o should be no problem for sure. and also the level issues, not that big of a deal for most operations i guess, no?

Re: WTB: BackPlate for PulsarI , II

Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 11:14 am
by garyb
well, the only advantage to using the XLR whip is that the connectors allow a balanced, pro-level signal. the problem is that the Plus Plate has an extra IC to balance the signal, so the XLR connection won't be balanced and the level will be super, super low for any hardware that has an XLR input. there is ZERO, absolutely no advantage to the XLR over RCA in that case. in fact, it's the opposite. you'll need WAY more gain to get the levels up to where they should be and that will add noise. an XLR to RCA adapter will do the same job as a new whip, basically nothing.

you need the whip that matches the plate.

Re: WTB: Whipcable for PulsarI

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 11:23 am
by FernandoHood
thnks guys!
Ive edited my initial request, what i need is just the Whipcable for Pulsar I :)

Re: WTB: Whipcable for PulsarI

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 12:28 pm
by garyb
my guess is that you'll need to make one.

dante posted the needed info on his site:
http://www.hitfoundry.com/issue_15/dsub_mst.htm

he has XLR and RCA versions posted with pinouts.

Re: WTB: Whipcable for PulsarI

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2016 8:51 am
by FernandoHood
got a Whipcable from Faxi Nadu, THE MAN, Faxi to the rescue as usual. :D