Will Jacobs Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 I recently acquired a Clairmont Camera breakout box and have fallen into a small conundrum. It is a 12v breakout box with three 3-pin 12v outputs, two 11-pin 12v outputs, and a 2-pin 12v input. It also features a 3-pin cable to connect to a remote switch connector and has a 'start/stop' button. I was going to use this for an ARRI SR I. Being relatively new to the SR camera, the 2-pin 12v input is what baffles me. Would I need a 11-pin to 2-pin male-to-male cable running from the camera to the box? How might the 11-pin accessories I power with the box be compatible with the 2-pin input? Here are some photographs of the unit: https://postimg.cc/gallery/hew90pve/ Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Dom Jaeger Posted September 13, 2019 Premium Member Share Posted September 13, 2019 That remote start will only work with an SR3, which uses the 3 pin RS socket. Your camera uses its 11 pin socket for remote start, but the 11 pin output on that box is for power only. This would have been a box to supply 12 V to various accessories, although it’s a bit odd that there are 3 pin outputs since the 3 pin socket supplied 24 V out normally. But rental house like Clairmont would have custom made all sorts of cables for things I guess. The danger is that you plug 24V into a 12V accessory. The 2 pin input would have possibly come out of the SR3 12V output which was a 2 pin socket. Normally power in sockets are male so that power out is always female (so you don’t have exposed pins that can be shorted), so again it’s a bit odd. To make a remote start for your SR 1 you’d need to source an 11 pin Fischer plug, with a cable and a switch to close pins 7 and 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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