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John Gwillim
October 8th, 2002, 01:32 AM
Does anyone know what voltage the dc out mini jack on the back of the XL1 supplies? I know the camera voltage is 7.2 volts.
What sort of things could I use that jack for?
The XL1 manual is no help.
Cheers for any help
John Gwillim

Chris Hurd
October 8th, 2002, 06:02 AM
That jack provides an extremely low-voltage output to power certain electronics inside the MA-100 and MA-200 XLR audio adapters. It serves no other purpose and unfortunately is not adaptable or modifiable for anything else. Hope this helps,

John Gwillim
October 8th, 2002, 10:40 AM
Thanks for all your work with the watch dog, your site has been very useful over the years.

Don Palomaki
October 9th, 2002, 07:29 AM
The nominal output voltage is 5 VDC, and as Chris notes it is not intended for anything but a select few accessories from Canon such as the MA-100/200, and operhaps some RF (ch 3/4 output) adapters or a Canon mic. It has very limited current capacity. Also, the ground return may not be through the 5 VDC jack but through the ground of the audio/video jacks.