Patrick Andrae
- Feb 22, 2017
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I have an old video camera. When you use it as a playback device, a remote control is connected to the camera with a cord that looks as though it is a 5-prong DIN connector. Well one of the prongs broke off in one of the holes and it doesn't get power. Silly me, I thought I would cut the cord, open the camera and hardwire the remote to the camera (I only need the camera to play back some old tapes). To my surprise, when I stripped the cord, there were only four wires! Also, when I looked in the camera, there seemed to be only four wires leading from the female port. I hooked up the wires in all 24 possible combinations and none succeeded in powering up the remote. A closer look at the female port revealed that the fifth wire led to something else on the PCB. I can't figure out what the fifth wire is for if only four wires led from the remote. Any ideas on how these connectors work?