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How to attach an RCA connector to a chassis ?
Hextejas:
Thanks folks, this is exactly what I was hoping for, with the exception of coppercone of course.
coppercone2:
the art of electronics has nothing nice to say about RCA connectors, for your information, they are on an avoid list, you know, just sayin
might be easier to have a sacrificial BNC to RCA adapter that can easily be replaced then to open the whole thing up.
i never used them much, but I found them to be fiddly for things like CCTV. I had to adjust them every time I nudged the monitor, so I agree with the book that its a poor standard.
CatalinaWOW:
RCA connectors are like everything else. When good ones are used within their service capabilities they are good enough for most folks. They were originally designed for audio, and then got pushed into the low bandwidth video realm (less than a couple of MHz). They were never intended for thousands of mating cycles. Their wide usage and long expired proprietary protections mean that everyone on earth has made them, for every market from the shave another 10 millicents off the cost end up through the audiophile/audiophool stuff. The stuff on the market that makes the cost manager happy and keeps the engineer one stroke from hari-kiri end of the range deserves the bad rap they often get. Particularly if assembly quality in the cables and equipment using them reflects the same attitudes.
Most of the same things can be said about BNC connectors, and I can certainly tell anecdotes about flaky BNC connections.
coppercone2:
The so-called phono jack used in
audio equipment is a nice lesson in bad design, because the
inner (signal) conductor mates before the shield (ground)
when you plug it in; furthermore, the design of the con-
nector is such that both shield and center conductor tend to
make poor contact. You’ve undoubtedly heard the results!
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Advocates of each would probably reply “This is our most modestly
priced receptacle.”
to be specific, i never noticed that much of a problem with BNC, i found even crusty old ones worked fine, but always a decent brand
Brumby:
I have a couple of boxes with cables of varying types bagged up. As well as one for anything that is oddball or underrepresented, I have one for RF, one for video (D15, DVI, HDMI), one for phone, one for network and one for anything with an RCA on it. That last one is a very healthy weight.
I'm sorry - but while the criticism of the RCA connector is not undeserving, advocating for the replacement of it by BNC is just elitist, absurd and dismisses the fact that the RCA is ubiquitous.
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