DIY Comms

[waynehoskins]

Saw the ComClone a few years back .. it's (essentially) a part-for-part dupe of the old CC stations. Which essentially means you have a CC station, just without the CC name. The one we came up with (which I still need to look for!) was a functional equivalent using different parts. Similar, but slightly different, topology.

Ironically, we named our project "Clone-Com", some three or four years before the ComClone came around.

[cjlowe]

Originally Posted by Chris Everett

http://www.rcrowley.com/ComClone/default.htm

You are a scholar and a gentleman. You may have every baby I ever give birth to.





[I'm a guy]

[tedanderson]

Originally Posted by cjlowe

You are a scholar and a gentleman. You may have every baby I ever give birth to.

2x! Well.. except for the baby part.

[cjlowe]

Can't wait to build up some of these... next pay I'll go component shopping. Might even just order the boards pre-made.

[tedanderson]

I was very interested in the part about using the clearcoms through the Sony CCU's. Currently we run 2 cables- One for the camera and one for the headset which seems ridiculous being that the Sony is already wired for its internal intercom system and it also has an on-board mic system. I once tried using a headset directly through the mic jacks on the CCU and camera but apparently its not a straight through 3 pin connection.

[cjlowe]

For adding comms to Sony CCUs, depending on your cabling (if you use the 15-pin plugs, as opposed to, say, triax), it's also possible to splice a Clearcom pack into the cable by building your own breakout box at the camera end.

Sony seem to have a weird history of comms plugs for their cameras...

[david.prins]

We are using headsets similar to what people use sometimes for Skype (covers both ears and has a boom mic) I have not poked behind the control boards to see how they are powered but there is a Radio Shack project box by each of two cameras to plus the two cords into. Just there can be quite a bit of static sometimes

[zactommo]

Don't want to be dragging up old threads, but has anyone built any ComClone units? Would be interested in your results with them.

Looking at building a few of them for a project I'm working, so would be interested in others results with them.