[Tig] BNC to XLR? (Aaton Keylink Install Question)

[Bob Kertesz]

I have used all three methods I've described at various times (the Canare
transformer, hard wire, and an audio transformer), and have never had any
issues with any of them. Most gear that takes time code in seems to have some
sort of elementary clock reshaping at the very least, and can lock to some
pretty sloppy stuff.

--Bob

Bob Kertesz
BlueScreen LLC
Hollywood, California
bob at bluescreen.com

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>Careful about that 600 ohm assumption.  
>If you use a 600 to 600 transformer, not only are you probably wasting your money, but chances are the input of that Keylink is active and bridging, which means it won't provide the termination that transformer wants.  Without it, you'll get ringing and overshoot, and may actually increase crosstalk problems in your system.  Same thing with the source....it's not likely to be 600 ohm.
>Center to pin 2, ground to pin 3 should work great. Try it without even using pin 1 first.
>
>Phil
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>>Just installed our Aaton Keylink and came across this issue:  Our  
>>deck's LTC output interface is BNC.  The Keylink's LTC "VTR-IN" is  
>>XLR.  Can I just make a cable to get these two interfaces to talk or  
>>do I need some sort of BNC to XLR conversion box (if they even  
>>exist).  If the answer is making a cable does anyone know which of  
>>the three XLR pins the LTC signal is running on?
>
>Canare makes a nice transformer: http://tinyurl.com/3o295d
>
>Alternately, you can just hardwire pin 2 to the center, and pins 1 and 3 to
>the ground. 
>
>Or to be more technically correct, get a small 600 ohm to 600 ohm audio
>transformer and connect one side to pins 2 & 3, and the other to center and
>ground. Timecode is just narrow band audio.
>
>--Bob
>
>Bob Kertesz
>BlueScreen LLC
>Hollywood, California
>bob at bluescreen.com
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