Where to buy RCA inputs

EmreNU · Post by **EmreNU** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:14 pm

I want to be able to use my portable as a standalone monitor so I would like to use RCA inputs (Video, R&L audio). Does anyone know where I can buy just the input sockets, or perhaps an effective alternative?

Thanks!

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:17 pm

Radio Shack
DigiKey

Or you could cannibalize them off a dead VCR.

EmreNU · Post by **EmreNU** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:19 pm

Thanks for the reply; yea I've checked those places and I didn't find just the RCA plugs, I found many types of connections and extenders, etc. Any other ideas? (I don't have any dead stuff laying around)

Dark Savant0 · Post by **Dark Savant0** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:45 pm

Buy a switch toggling the two signals (console and rca input) and get one of those extenders. You can use a plain audio extender and use of for video instead (but only mono sound then unless you get two). I know cause I used it to test out a busted nes, and it worked.

Anyways, plug the switch into the screen, and plug each of the signals from the console into the switch, or switches. Then do the same for the extenders.

Hope I was clear enough.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:10 pm

Digikey part #'s:

White panel mount phono jack: CP-1414-ND

Yellow panel mount phono jack: CP-1415-ND

And there's also a red jack but I don't have the # for that right now.
Hope this is what you needed.

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 5:12 pm

Red: CP-1413-ND

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:33 pm

I have some of those I ordered a while ago. They're really nice av jacks. Not a bad price too.

EmreNU · Post by **EmreNU** » Sun May 01, 2005 4:03 pm

Thanks!

westbook2 · Post by **westbook2** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:28 pm

You are doing the very thing I want to do but how? I ripped the plugs from a dead VCR but what is soldered where???? Ground is what? How to tie the grounds? Why am I so dumb.

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:42 am

I believe the outside is ground, but don't trust me. I just recall that I read that in somebody's post or tutorial or something.