Re: Eclair ACL Need help! Jaeger connectors

[L'Abominable <l.abo@wanadoo.fr>]

le 20/11/01 7:37, cinesota@yahoo.com à cinesota@yahoo.com a écrit :

> It worked! Thanks Julian.
>
> I got the buggers out but what a pain. That settles it. I'm converting
> my ACL's to XLR and never looking back.  Anyone need some ACL power
> cables with Jaeger connectors?
>
> Cheers,
> Ray

True those Jaeger connectors are tricky to dismantle and solder back. Each
time you do there's a chance it dies and that's how my own cable got
somewhat fragile. So if you're ready to send it over to France, I could use
yours. I'll pay for the shipping.

By the way, I have a couple questions about our good friend ACL :

1. Anyone having a spare MIVAR motor ? I have the older fixed speed motor on
my camera and could use a variable speed one.

2. Anyone tried to power the camera from a 12 V DC transformer ? I don't see
why it wouldn't work as long as the transformer can deal with the 1.3 amps
the motor seems to ask for (according to Perry's site - I think read 0.8
amps somewhere else : maybe that's the older motor ?).

3. Once I tried to film a PAL TV screen using my 25 fps crystal, the bar was
slowly moving anyways... Did that ever happen to someone ? I thought that
using 25 fps on a 50 Hz screen would freeze the bar, which I therfore could
try to eliminate by a few trial and error starts of the camera.

Thank you for your help - and bravo for the acl web site.

At L'Abominable 
(a film-makers coop about 10 km from where the acl was designed)
Nicolas Rey

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