This is something circa 1982. Consisted of a largish, for hand held, camera and a matching VHS recording pack carried on a shoulder strap. It ran off a NiCd battery pack. Also came with a mains power station that could recharge the NiCd pack and distribute the wideo signal
When it was last used, the camera worked, aka image on the sperate CRT in the hand held bit and on the vcr outlets on recording pack and base station(?)
I am now trying to run the camera standalone, but think I'm stumped as it requires certain signals from the recording pack. Both the camera and the mains station had standby settings, which i suspect responded to a button on the recording pack. Unfortunately the recording pack has been binned, but the internal sockets kept for camera and mains station.
Also have been unable to find anything helpful on the internet about this unit. Even the manual floggers have given up trying to make out they have manuals.
Basically looking for cluebies to understand it better.
The mains station has a 11 wire plug and when powered on, provides the following voltages on the following wires red -18.7V purple -19.1 V black 0.0 V light blue +2.5 V
The camera has an ten wire plug with wire colours matching the first ten colours of the mainsd station plug.
If the black and red wires and joined to their matching colours on the camera plug, a relay clicks in the mains station, but voltages alter significantly.
Red -18.1V to -8.1V black 0.0V light blue +2.5V to +7.4V (not connected across)
Seven of the remaining 8 wires on the camera plug then return -1.2V. the
8th(gray) is 0.0V.But, the power led on the camera is still unlit.
Tried disassembling the camera to see if I could find out where the wires went internally, but it requires compled board on each side to be removed and disonnects as the cable entry is really buried underneath the main camera.
Would like to get the camera working as it has auto iris and auto focus.
T.I.A.