Firewire connector breakage

[craigbowman]

I solved this issue before I bought my first firewire cable for use with DV Rack.

I bought a 4 pin to 6 pin female adaptor and fixed it to my camera. You can get these as right angle by the way. Then I bought a firewire cable that was 6pin male to 4 pin. I get the benefit right away of plugging the long firewire cable into a 6 pin on the camera side even though both end of the equation are 4 pin. No fancy construction required just thoughtful shopping. I got everything I needed from Laird.

 

[bbalser]

How did you fix the 4-to-6 to your camera? Got pics?

 

[siniarch]

Craig,
when you say that you fixed it to the camera, did you crazy glued it to the camera?
I see what you are saying and that is a nice solution. I just like the added support of the headphone jack and the battery holding this thing up. not to mention not having to buy another cable since I already had bought one.

Thanks for the idea.

 

[siniarch]

OK guys,
I've set up the website with a paypal shopping cart and will be selling this item. I also want to put it on another section of this site as an advertising. What do you guys suggest I place it in:

DVXuser Shop
MarketPlace / Buying Gear or
DIY

the web site is:
http://firewiresaver.silo23.com/

Thanks,
Luis

 

[samdaman]

HI, I have a question for you all, but I just got the firestore fs-100 and keeping having the issue where if I jostle the 6-pin end of the FW cable attached to the firestore it drops out. I then have to unplug it and wait like 5 seconds for it to detect again. I once had to do this like 5 times before the camera would detect the drive.

Is this just an issue with a bad FW 6-pin port on the firestore or what? I'm thinking of taping that end so it's snug on the firestore and won't move.

I'm going to be filming a wedding and moving around a lot and don't want to miss footage because of this...and don't want to go the P2 route because it doesn't have the capacity I need for the money I can afford right now...but if this is an inherent issue with the firestore I just might go ahead and buy the P2 cards (thank goodness for the cheaper e-series 64gig cards)

I just find it odd that I'm having more of an issue with the 6-pin side than the 4-pin. Is this something I just need to return and exchange?

Anyone?

 

[Chris Santucci]

We disagree since the FS 100 is advertised on Panasonic's camera leaflet and we used all original parts. Our opinion is that this happened due to poor
technical design - the camera connector should be more robust or the FS100
should come with an angled firewire cable.

I've used the FS-100 on the belt clip many, many times with the regular straight cable connectors and have yet to have a problem. As with any other cable connector used on or with camera, it should be a regular practice to relieve the strain on the connection.

This can be achieved by looping the cable around a belt a few times and THEN plugging it into the Firestore on the one end, AND by cable tying the cable to the camera's side hand strap (leaving a nice loop to the connection) so any pulling or movement of the cable is not transferred to the connection.

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