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How to attach an RCA connector to a chassis ?
coppercone2:
it's the cable equivalent of percussive maintenance and NES cartridges. I have seen people blow into CDROM drives because of all the chaos those things caused in the past.
I am just imagining big screen tv's falling down because of bad RCA connections. I also got yelled at once because of something like that happening to me because of a RCA connector IIRC when I was young, so I have a bone to pick with them. I think a poorly placed VCR took like a 6 foot fall.
Brumby:
--- Quote from: coppercone2 on October 03, 2018, 12:42:14 am ---it's the cable equivalent of percussive maintenance and NES cartridges.
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Perhaps - but once in 10 years isn't cause for wholesale exile IMHO.
--- Quote ---I am just imagining big screen tv's falling down because of bad RCA connections.
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Now you're just messing with us ... surely.
--- Quote --- I also got yelled at once because of something like that happening to me because of a RCA connector IIRC when I was young, so I have a bone to pick with them. I think a poorly placed VCR took like a 6 foot fall.
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Not sure how an RCA connector could be the cause of something like that which would not happen with, say, a BNC. But, OK - so you had a bad childhood experience and it has led you to an irrational hatred. At least we now know where it came from.
RobertHolcombe:
My uncle bob was severely injured in a freak RCA connector incident, I too have not been able to move on.
:-DD
coppercone2:
it was temperamental and I got up on a chair to mess with it and boom. Probably got nudged because you know, you need to move home AV equipment to clean the dust under it *unless your a dirty fuck*
Never would have happened with BNC. Obviously people won't have it so poorly set up but the fact is the equipment needs to be moved once in a while to clean behind, under it, etc, unless its part of a sterile AV rack mount device.
There is like a 100% chance some house wife is going to be regularly messing with some kind of home audio setup to find dust during regular cleaning. Maybe some people will have a filtered AV cabinet under their TV with some fan and filters to change, but I never saw that.
langwadt:
--- Quote from: tooki on October 02, 2018, 01:49:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: coppercone2 on October 02, 2018, 12:46:34 am ---yes so thats why a sacrificial adapter is a good idea. easy and cheap to replace cable and adapter but not so easy to take the thing apart.
and you can mate em so it grounds first.
I also have a giant bag of RCAs, but there is no reason why you can't use a sacrificial adapter.
honestly the comment was mainly triggered by someone suggesting some crazy ass shit with washers (wtf?) but its still not a bad idea if you can stand 4$ adapters
the washer thing is nuts because real connectors come in real isolated versions, like bulkhead BNC isolated, not relying on filing holes etc to make the thing align. I just assumed RCA does not even have real isolated mounts.
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FFS, dude. Nobody cares about your anti-RCA crusade.
1. I've never heard of an RCA jack wearing out. They're so simple, what is there to wear out?? It's not as though they have a bunch of moving parts. It's a simple friction fit.
2. If you had bad experiences with them, it was almost certainly due to bad cables, not bad jacks, or due to substantial corrosion, which could affect any connector.
3. RCA jacks come at every conceivable price point, including ones that are inherently insulated from the enclosure. This particular model is designed to work either way. That's a deliberate design decision of this jack model, not an inherent property of RCA jacks. That you don't understand how this model is designed doesn't make it "crazy ass shit".
4. They are THE standard in home audio. It doesn't matter what you think about the connector design, if you want a product that readily connects, you use RCA. It works fine for this application. The OP was not asking for opinions on what connectors to choose, and it's arrogant of you to keep belaboring the point.
The only legitimate criticism of RCA jacks, IMHO, is the issue of the signal making contact before ground. But let's be realistic, in its intended application, this isn't an issue. It's not as though RCA jacks' intended uses include routine hot-plugging.
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you can get RCAs that connect ground first, http://www.neutrik.co.uk/website/uploads/images/07/660x/profi-uebersicht.jpg
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