Technicians, I need your help with a little project for my F900

Mike Krumlauf

Mike Krumlauf

Award Winning Filmmaker
So I feel like a very educated person in electronics and boards, etc will help me figure this out no problem. I am trying to do one of two things (which ever is easier). First and foremost i need to find how to put the 2 boards pictured below into a protective housing of some kind. The second option is where i can do one of two things.. either find a place that sells the 2 cables pictured below in longer form(one is 10pin and the other is 4pin), or, find a way to convert those two connections into a 10pin lemo connection on the other side. Basically im trying to convert the F900's control panel into a removable unit per how panavision did it given i am using the panavision model. I can either remove their lemo connection on the front plate and just have longer versions of those (What look like) sata connections and plug that into the control boards, or, i can figure out how to get a connection from the back two ports on that board into a 10pin LEMO configuration. I have some rudimentary understanding on how all this works, but, the biggest feat would be getting these two boards into a protective housing of some kind. Let me know your thoughts and how I could proceed with this little project of mine. Thanks.


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Sounds like a job for 3D printing.

Your photos are super small, but the white connectors look like regular JST headers. They are easy to find and crimp, so making your own JST to Lemo cable shouldn't be too hard.
 
edinc90 said:
Sounds like a job for 3D printing.

Your photos are super small, but the white connectors look like regular JST headers. They are easy to find and crimp, so making your own JST to Lemo cable shouldn't be too hard.
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If anyone knows who makes JST 10pin to Lemo 10pin I could be eternally grateful. Yeah the housing part is going to be complicated. I already reached out to Panavision and they said all their custom HDRP units have been retired and destroyed... bummer.
 
If you can send me higher quality photos of the cable I can make one. My company specializes in custom cables just like this.
 
There's plenty of 3D printing services out there that will print a single item at reasonable prices. There are also services that will draw up the part for you. Just search for 3d printing services.
 
FYI you can learn to draw in Fusion 360 at no cost. (which is what I have done)

At that point you can hit up the world of 3d printing.

My first3d print project will be the unification of my Animom transmitter, as redby decimator and an HDMI splitter!

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