Alan Rencher

The Connex is meant to be handled very delicately. All of the connections are very weak. For example, the power input is a 4-pin plastic internal board-to-wire connector that uses 30AWG hookup wires. If you rehoused it, it would be workable.

It looks like this setup has the camera being fed by two batteries in series, which actually connects the positive of one battery to the negative of another. I would bet that the P-Tap isn't connected to a regulator, so what they might be doing is just using one battery of the series as an unregulated 12V. The problem then may be that when you connect the two grounds together via the SDI, you are actually shorting positive in one battery to the ground in another. Normally, that would be protected on an Arrow-X, but the short is bypassing the power input protection circuits and actually backfeeding through the SDI board. Just a guess.

It is the same. I'm going to see if I could fit a Lemo jack in its place when I get one. I'm also thinking about building a cage for it.

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Your best bet is to contact Pelican directly. They use a local company to design and cut their custom foam. I forgot the name of the company, but Pelican will put you in contact with them. From what I remember, they didn't charge us a fee to design the case. You just give them the equipment (or measurements), and they'll do the rest.

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Great. We have four spoken for, anyone else can reply here or email me: alan@mediablackout.net. Once I get 10 people, I'll get the orders placed, and more people means a better price.

James, I can help with that project if we can get enough people to do a run. The plates would probably only be $35-$50 each if we can get at least 10 people to commit.

Yes, we did make the cut to the next round. Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote. I think they'll announce in September. Fingers crossed!

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On sale for one week: The Rencher Industries Intersex Plate Regularly $150, the plate will be on sale for $100 until the 18th. The Intersex Plate can be used to couple battery plates, attach battery plates to rods, create cages, mount monitors, and more! http://mediablackout.net/product/intersex-plate/

Burk Bags has 7" monitor covers: http://goo.gl/wmEpDv

I had a standard HDMI to HD-SDI converter that didn't need regulation. I bought that unit about four years ago.

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Hi Bo, I just updated the DC Barrel Power cable page to include connectors other than just P-Tap: http://mediablackout.net/product/dc-barrel-power-cable/

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It's the same board as the Paralinx Tomahawk.

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Maybe they should open source it.

They're shorter than Dionic, but they are thicker. The width is about the same.

The thing that I think is cool about the Halo system is that they are repurposing a system that is made for self driving cars to be able to "see" objects around them very precisely. That's just the tech geek in me.

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