P2 Pigtails

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MagicCat

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This may belong in the DIY forum, but I think for obvious reasons, Ill post it here.

Like many of you, I'm sure you have had issues grabbing the P2 cards out of a Laptop or camera at one time or another. My laptop has a broken PCMCIA Ejector button so it is always difficult.

Well, I was on a shoot the other day when my jacket got caught on a Barbed wire fence. It was ripped beyond repair. For reasons not worth going into here, we were rushing to offload the cards. My laptop's missing button made the person Offloading, quite difficult to be with, to remain polite.

After we were well into the shoot, a Card came back to me with a hunk of my ripped Polyester jacket hanging off the end. (there was a message written on it that I will not disclose here) The strip of Polyester was attached with a little Grip tape. Now the intention was to send me a message, not solve a problem. However, his frustration solved us all a ton of issues.

This was an instant HIT! That little hunk of Nylon acts as something to Tug on, to pull the cards out of stubborn slots. Because my Jacket was multi Colored, it also allowed us to color code the Cards!

When we got back I found some better Tape to attach tuggers on the cards with. Now, after a bunch of use, the tape will leave a sticky residue, but a little light use of Goo-B-Gone will fix that. I use clear Packing tape. It seems to work the best. It would be nice if Panasonic included a pigtail as an option. They are priceless and also, don't get in the way when I close the P2door on the Camera.

I know this post could have been shorter, but the story was worth mentioning.


Happy New Years!

MagicCat

David Walker. www.mediamagicproductions.com
 
Hi David:

Glad you worked that out.

I must say though, you get the trophy for most obscure HVX post of 2007. I hope you can defend your crown in 2008 ;-)

Dan
 
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puredrifting said:
Hi David:

Glad you worked that out.

I must say though, you get the trophy for most obscure HVX post of 2007. I hope you can defned your crown in 2008 ;-)

Dan
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Why thank you.....Um, I think. Ahhh, What the heck, I have never received an award for much of anything. The producers always take the prize.

In this case, Ill take it.


MagicCat
 
MagicCat... your story just keeps getting better! Does the foundation pour have anything to do with capturing methane?

Already this is by far the best post of '08 as well!
 
snp said:
MagicCat... your story just keeps getting better! Does the foundation pour have anything to do with capturing methane?

Already this is by far the best post of '08 as well!
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To answer your question, No. The Farm animals really had nothing to do with the reason we were there, they were just part of the annoyance of the location we were presented with.


Some folks have Airplanes, Booming Stereos, or onlookers to overcome, we had cows.

I will leave this post with one last humorous scenereo, I wish I would have been rolling on that day.

Though I now I live in the country, my crew do not. I forget all the things I take for granted. With electric horse/cow fences around, one of the crew members learned very quickly where NOT to go, when he needed to visit the Privy. Sometimes electric fences are a little difficult to see in the woods....

Hence his overwhelming desire to write me a message on the piece of torn jacket attached to my P2 card. He could not say what he was thinking in front of the client.

I think I better stop here and keep this directed towards forum yakking. Good stories are always fun to share though. Glad it made a few folks laugh.

Don't forget to try the P2Pigtail technique, it really works well. That is the point.

MagicCat

David Walker
 
MagicCat said:
To answer your question, No. The Farm animals really had nothing to do with the reason we were there, they were just part of the annoyance of the location we were presented with.


Some folks have Airplanes, Booming Stereos, or onlookers to overcome, we had cows.

I will leave this post with one last humorous scenereo, I wish I would have been rolling on that day.

Though I now I live in the country, my crew do not. I forget all the things I take for granted. With electric horse/cow fences around, one of the crew members learned very quickly where NOT to go, when he needed to visit the Privy. Sometimes electric fences are a little difficult to see in the woods....

Hence his overwhelming desire to write me a message on the piece of torn jacket attached to my P2 card. He could not say what he was thinking in front of the client.

I think I better stop here and keep this directed towards forum yakking. Good stories are always fun to share though. Glad it made a few folks laugh.

Don't forget to try the P2Pigtail technique, it really works well. That is the point.

MagicCat

David Walker
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I grew up on a horse ranch. We were so stupid as kids that the cool thing to do used to be to listen to the hot wire box (the box sending out the electric pulses) and try to grab the hot wire in between the pulses. You would do it until you messed up the timing, then it would knock you on your ace. Ahh, good times!

Wow, peeing on a hot wire, that would really knock you down! Fun stuff.

Dan
 
puredrifting said:
I grew up on a horse ranch. We were so stupid as kids that the cool thing to do used to be to listen to the hot wire box (the box sending out the electric pulses) and try to grab the hot wire in between the pulses. You would do it until you messed up the timing, then it would knock you on your ace. Ahh, good times!

Wow, peeing on a hot wire, that would really knock you down! Fun stuff.

Dan
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Dan,
I've seen a episode of "Mythbusters" about that. The stream of urine is not continuos enough to conduct electricity.
 
Pedro_Iorio said:
Dan,
I've seen a episode of "Mythbusters" about that. The stream of urine is not continuos enough to conduct electricity.
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I would argue that "busted myth" till the day I die. I speak from personal experience.

With that being said, It may also have to do with the proximity to the grounding stake, the shoes you are, or are not wearing, and soil moisture content. I have been lightly zapped in bare feet standing near my own fence line, on my own property.


To the other User, I will try to upload some pics of the pigtails. I am still experimenting with the best setup. I dont want to ruin the cosmetics of the cards, but then again, the batch I am using this on are 4 giggers.

BTW, NewProVideo.com has some used 4 giggers for 200 bucks. I just bought 2 for backup. I hope Im allowed to say that here. Im not affiliated with them in anyway.

MagicCat
 
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