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expert level where I don't mess with the hardware yeah I like things where it's a parasitic upgrade that doesn't damage the original hardware and this is nice because it kind of just like taps into what's currently there and it doesn't damage the original in any way so this is like kind of like the perfect mod I actually like this and people really like these like pixelated visualizations so this is just good timing yeah well so cool project so we got NTSC working but we want to use is S video because S video gives a split chroma color and luma brightness and when you do that it's you know it's a little bit easier to get better-looking video out because you don't have like the the chrome and the luma can affect each other a little bit also depends on your decoder but if they're split usually you get a better video quality it's also a little bit less noisy I found so I want to get that panel mount S video connector that'll fit in and I don't want to do any drilling or gluing or whatever so let's go to the digickey side I was looking at inclinometers so S video is kind of interesting it's S video uses a DIN connector so let's go to this video DIN so it uses DIN and and DIN connectors are you know they're not quite dinosaurs but they're definitely rare like you know anyone who's had old Macs or even a computer with a ps2 interface you're like oh I remember these kind of connectors these characters the round they're all pretty much like the same size and they have different number of pins but usually was like four to eight pins and also these these cables are a little bit cursed because you know you'd always put it in not quite right and you'd force it maybe or somebody would force it bend the pin the pin would break and now the connector and the whole device is pretty much useless so it's you know this is why people don't really use DIN anymore that said it's the standard for S video so S video is a four pin mini DIN connector so we were fine so let's go to digikey and let's go to mini DIN to find a mini DIN connector so this is a circular connector you also get cables if you wanted to get an S video cable like I said we wanted to get a connector and already things are looking good yes we can see this has eight pins and this one has five pins this one has six pins this is a good party here and they're all totally slightly different you can see a number of pins so first up you know of course we want to go with the active and we want to go with four I don't know what P is but we'll go with four positions in the connector so let's apply and let's look down here make sure that we're down to four okay yeah so this looks right this looks just like that wikipedia so there's a couple types you know there's this kind of panel mount and there's PCB mount but again we want panel mount usually I have not been going for panel mount stuff but I want to be panel mount for sure so let's find where panel mount is mounting types free hanging inline panel mount through hole through hole right angle so I think I don't exactly know what through hole right angle is I definitely want surface definitely don't want free hanging or surface mount I don't know what dash is let's let's check those out okay so we have a couple options here so this kind of panel mounts these are all like you know it's interesting there's actually quite a few options available here so this is the that must be the through hole right angle panel mount so it's like it goes into a PCB but all of these actually look really good so they all have you know you can see there's a little this kind of bulkhead style there's a kind of big chunky style all of these are good I don't know if I really care about any other size oh shell shell size I think that actually oh so some of these are XL these are not mini dins so I actually do want to make sure that they're mini din sized right mini din mini XLR so let's go back and make sure that I'm actually getting because din just means like it's the connector style it doesn't necessarily mean the size so let's go with mini din alright so now there's only eight remaining okay so these are all really good so there's this style and this has like two ears you can see hold on there's two ears yeah okay there you go so there's this style which is has like two ears here and you can like screw them in you do have to drill two holes in and then let's see there's this style also has two little ears this is kind of a metal plate this is probably the most stylistically close to that era but the one that I ended up finding was this one and what was nice about this connector is it had panel now but it was slim and then you know you could pretty easily connect to the the four pads on the back and the ground so actually did get these because I was working on this project last week so it's gonna be overhead and I'll show them so this is the metal type with metal ears this one is actually what I thought I'd end up using with the plastic years I thought like oh maybe I'll just glue it in what is when what is nice about this is a little pigtail which is quite handy so like you know it's kind of an elegant for wiring to a board but this one I got the the one with two plastic rings what's nice is you can mount it either way there's two plastic wings you can mount from the back or from the front and you can solder you know wires to the back pads and then let's go to the video music guys when I got to checking out this mod this fit in like pretty much I have to line up the little there's a little like notch and the notch has to line up with the oh sorry it goes this way this fits in perfectly and then you can clonk you can screw it in from the back and I can get to these pads and this is nice and solid on the back here but very easy to plug it in as video connector so this was actually a perfect perfect fit which is pretty sweet back to my desk or I clonk anything else so the MD 40 CV just actually in stock right now is my great search find and it was the perfect part so if you're looking for a power mount as video connector especially one that's like being used in a you know looks like about one centimeter diameter hole and it's totally rocks and if you want the actual mounting okay you go to the computer again the data sheet it has the yeah it's a little bit more than you know one millimeter it's a 14 millimeter a little bit more than one centimeter but all the specs are here and very easy to cut a hole if you need to or if you have an existing hole and it's around the size you know also the lip gives you a little bit of leeway so you know it's not quite you know it's a little bit loose but that's alright because you just use the locking that and you just like really torque it down and solid it's not gonna go anywhere all right that's the great search