8mm Forum: Anyone know what this power socket is?

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Posted by Barrie Didham (Member # 1741) on July 21, 2010, 01:27 AM:

On my Elmo ST-1200HD TC(Tele-cine)M+O projector,it has a 5 pin screw in power jack.

Can someone help with a link to a picture of how this is wired or a link to where to buy one.

Unless i can find one i cant fire this up.

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on July 21, 2010, 03:05 AM:

Barrie, this is the old Elmo socket and finding a cord is really hard. On all machines I've come accross, except my SC8 which came with the proper cord, I've removed it and rewired a modern socket.

Posted by Barrie Didham (Member # 1741) on July 21, 2010, 03:33 AM:

Thanks for the reply Jean

But the problem i have is that the socket has 1Yellow(earth)/1White?/1Brown(power) and 2 Blue? wires.

I have no idea how to wire this up to a 3 pin socket(power/phase/earth),I suspect from looking at it,one blue wire is for the 50/60Hz box as this ST1200 has no shutter wheel or rollers with the Hertz Belt for speed control.

Also it only has the one speed of(at a quess)24 fps

If you could help that would be great,i really want to see this up and running,it looks like its had almost no use at all.

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on July 22, 2010, 03:13 AM:

On regular ST1200s, two rubber rollers of different sizes allow the speed change from 18 to 24 fps. The St1200 motor runs on AC, therefore it's in theory revolving at fixed speed. I have looked around but I've been unable to locate schematics for that particular machine. Your best bet is to unscrew some of the back panels and follow the wires to see which goes where and try to isolate power, phase and earth.

Posted by John Hermes (Member # 1367) on October 01, 2010, 02:19 PM:

Barrie, were you ever able to find out about the wiring? I am in the same boat.

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