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New Tv - No Scart
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Just bought a new LG TV which is great but it doesn't have a SCART socket in the back, so I can't link it to my Freeview recorder. Is there something I can buy to 'convert' the SCART lead to something which will work?
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It might not plug into the mains, Brainiac, but it's got a socket marked DC/5V and a power light that comes on once power is connected to it: https://imag
22:24 Fri 02nd Jul 2021
I was hoping that at least one of the devices might have alternative sockets, such as RCA ones but, alas (from looking at the manuals), it seems not.
Have you actually got any power going to the converter box? It's not a static device, where the input and output connections just needed to be wired together the correct way round. It's an 'active' one, where the electronic circuitry within it has to convert an analogue signal into a digital one. It needs power to do that but how it gets that power varies across different makes and models of converters.
Have you actually got any power going to the converter box? It's not a static device, where the input and output connections just needed to be wired together the correct way round. It's an 'active' one, where the electronic circuitry within it has to convert an analogue signal into a digital one. It needs power to do that but how it gets that power varies across different makes and models of converters.
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It might not plug into the mains, Brainiac, but it's got a socket marked DC/5V and a power light that comes on once power is connected to it:
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That power is provided by the USB cable that should have come with it. (See top of picture):
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One end of the cable goes into the converter, while the other end needs to be plugged into any convenient USB socket. (I doubt that you could use the one on your telly, as it's marked 'USB in' only but it might be worth giving it a try). With so many devices being charged from USB sockets these days, you might already have a mains-to-USB plug lying around your house. Otherwise they're cheap enough on eBay: https:/
Once you've powered up the converter, it might then be able to do its job ;-)
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That power is provided by the USB cable that should have come with it. (See top of picture):
https:/
One end of the cable goes into the converter, while the other end needs to be plugged into any convenient USB socket. (I doubt that you could use the one on your telly, as it's marked 'USB in' only but it might be worth giving it a try). With so many devices being charged from USB sockets these days, you might already have a mains-to-USB plug lying around your house. Otherwise they're cheap enough on eBay: https:/
Once you've powered up the converter, it might then be able to do its job ;-)
Phew, thank you!
Don't know what I - or many here on AB - would do without you, Chris. The converter came with absolutely no instructions, and I thought the other cable it came with was to connect it to some other sort of device. I understand completely now, just have to get hold of the mains/USB thing - annoying as could have added it to my order, now I'll have to fork out again for postage :(
Many thanks again. Off to bed, goodnight.
Don't know what I - or many here on AB - would do without you, Chris. The converter came with absolutely no instructions, and I thought the other cable it came with was to connect it to some other sort of device. I understand completely now, just have to get hold of the mains/USB thing - annoying as could have added it to my order, now I'll have to fork out again for postage :(
Many thanks again. Off to bed, goodnight.
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