kda50 manual and sdi cables & questions

[Heinz Wolter]

it is possible to build them with just 50 ohm thin coax soldered to 0.1
connectors?
or are they tightly impedance dependent? Are there resistors on the drive
ends?
I assume that it takes 2 coax cables per drive (in/out) - thus 4 connections
?
regards, heinz

From: "Brad Parker" wrote :
Subject: Re: kda50 manual and sdi cables & questions


> >- do I need the bulkheads and an odd number if wires - even if
> >going directly from controller to drive (say one drive to one port)?
>
> I've been running SDI drives off a UDA50 with just a single cable for
> testing.  Seems to work fine.  Not mechanically secure but good for
> making sure the drive works.
>
> If you use more than one cable you need an odd number of cables to get
> the pin swapping to work right.
>
> Don't have any extras, sorry.  Could use a few more myself :-)
>
> -brad