Firewire. . .Again.
I just had the mother of all meltdowns! I know somehow I burned up a Firewire port on my GY-HD100 a few weeks ago. Now I think I may have a power problem with my computer. Last night I tried to capture via Firewire like always from my DSR-30 and I couldnt get the Firewire to work after MUCH troubleshooting and swapping of gear.I seemed to have burned ports up in my DSR-30, both of my GY-HD100's, AG-DV10, A consumer camera I have and my Canopus DV converter. Not bad for ones night work. So after weaping like a little girl in the feetle position for a few hours I decided to order the Intensity Pro card and go good ole analog. Nothing to burn up there, anywho I am also afraid to hook up anyting to my PC Firewire related. Which brings me to my question, I think my P.C. has a power problem but im not sure nor do I know what to swap to fix it so if I bought a 4 pin Firewire card for it and used that would that protect me from this happening again?
Thanks Firewireless Randy |
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Are there any instances of Macs frying cameras? |
I actually fried an iPod and camera - what was happening was that I had wired it up wrong when building it, so that there was actually power going into the FireWire drive.
:( Doublecheck that connection on the motherboard. |
6 pin Firewire does carry voltage my question is: If my computer caused the problem which it looks like it did. If I got a 4 pin Firewire card for the computer would it keep it from happening again? Id only have voltage from the camera(or Deck) which is what I guess i'll have to purchase after this mess settles.
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Are there 6 pin to 4 pin FW adaptors? if there are, would it solve the issue?
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o.k. so it WILL defniatly solve the problem. Because I have a 4 pin PCI card I could use and then use a 4 to 6 pin adapter for the camera. that way no voltage will come from the p.c. only the camera. I wonder if JVC has a way to turn off the voltage (if it has it) from the GY-HD100?
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Hello Randy
go on the web go to firewire depot the cable you need is a FIREWIRE 1394A CABLE 8 INCH PORT ISOLATOR I have 2 of them 1 connected to the computer firewire cable the other to my 110 firewire port to my DR HD100 cable Tim Dashwood told me about them they work great. Joe |
So if I get one of these cables for my camera/deck and a pin Firewire which I NOW have in my windows machine I wont have to worry about this happening again? Will I need to be carefull on how I startup? ie having the camera and computer off then hook up or can I hot swap?
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Hello Randy
I sorry don't mean to be dumb. are you using you camera as a deck? and does your computer have a 6 pin or a 4pin firewire port? Joe |
yes. for now I am using my camera as a deck. I only use it as such when I shoot HDV. Later I plan go either get a Firestore or the JVC deck. My camera is a GY-HD100 with a 6 pin Firewire cable. But when I had my Firewire melt down I was trying to capture DV and was triying every deck/converter I had. Which apparenttly my cpomputer destoryed all. DSR-30(4 pin) DV converter (6 pin) home camcorder(4 pin) 2 GY-HD100s (6 pin) since the melt down I was able to get a Firewire card for my PC with a 4 pin port(better late than never)
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yes. for now I am using my camera as a deck. I only use it as such when I shoot HDV. Later I plan go either get a Firestore or the JVC deck. My camera is a GY-HD100 with a 6 pin Firewire cable. But when I had my Firewire melt down I was trying to capture DV and was triying every deck/converter I had. Which apparenttly my cpomputer destoryed all. DSR-30(4 pin) DV converter (6 pin) home camcorder(4 pin) 2 GY-HD100s (6 pin) since the melt down I was able to get a Firewire card for my PC with a 4 pin port(better late than never) but it originally had a 6 pin.
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Hello Randy
all i can tell you is i use a dr hd 100 i connect the firewire cable from the computer to the Dr100 power off when i'm going to down load my m2t files to my laptop I turn on my computer first let it boot up then i turn the Dr hd100 on after i down load my m2t files to the computer i go to the task bar and click on the icon that saids safely remove hardware i have removed the firewire with the Dr100 on with no problem, but i don't do that anymore but just i think it be better TO SHUT THE CAMREA OFF before removing the firewire cable. (TO ME ITS BETTER TO BE EXTRA SAFE) Joe |
o.k. fair enough, I am just more than a little bit antzy about it having killed (possibly) a number of Firewire devices.
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The difference between 6 pin and 4 pin is that power isn't carried on the 4 pin version.
BUT there's still a copper connector between camera and PC, and stray voltage, or static electricity can still travel down the wire and zap something. I think the isolator is a good idea though. There are also some isolating hubs around. |
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This is such a common problem. It's not worth fixing if it happens. better off buy ing a deck. |
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