BL3500 and the MCL/PL connector

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KS
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Klaus Stoetzel
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Posted August 22, 2024 at 11:05 GMT
Edited August 22, 2024 at 11:05 GMT
#1666035
Yes, happy to have gotten the details and possibly getting to the bottom of it

If you could test the 5V injection on Pin4 I would very much appreciate

While I have been reviewing things over and over again this morning I found this pretty recent update fom PeterPan on 3500 connectivity, interestingly its seems that this would be a special "combined" cable for mk1 and mk2 and correspond with your findings that the L/R audio lines could be reversed, see yourself, file name says it all -> For alle Beolab 3500 .. interesting ...

 



 

 

 
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Posted August 22, 2024 at 11:40 GMT
Edited August 22, 2024 at 11:40 GMT
#1666036
Following with interest.  Just for the avoidance of confusion, the following shows the correct 7-pin DIN pin numbering, viewed from the solder side of a DIN plug:

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Klaus Stoetzel
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Posted August 22, 2024 at 11:45 GMT
#1666037
yes, thanks, his drawing is from the other side tho
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Klaus Stoetzel
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Posted August 22, 2024 at 11:54 GMT
#1666038
Mads, like a year ago (in this thread) you tested some variations of +5v on Pin4 (GND to 2 and/or 7) on your mk2 but seems you looked at the powerup which did not happen, if you could redo that testing with audio applied too see if it will get us some music finally it would be great, just to confirm to curious-dreamer that we indeed tried his setup. Thx
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Madskp
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Posted August 22, 2024 at 12:37 GMT
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Mads, like a year ago (in this thread) you tested some variations of +5v on Pin4 (GND to 2 and/or 7) on your mk2 but seems you looked at the powerup which did not happen
I actually looks like I only mentioned pin 7 as ground for some reason 

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Madskp
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Posted August 22, 2024 at 12:41 GMT
#1666040
hmm It looks like I already tried that in this post 

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Posted August 22, 2024 at 12:46 GMT
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@madskp when you re-do the test can you clarify the SW version of the BL3500 that you use just in case it only works with a particular SW. I can try with my Mk1 SW2.0 if required.

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Madskp
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Posted August 22, 2024 at 12:52 GMT
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Posted August 22, 2024 at 13:37 GMT
#1666044
I have just connected my BC2300 to my SW2.0 BL3500 by powerlink, and it's behaving pretty much as if connected by ML.  I can't get it to trigger from the BC2300.  I have tried L.OPT 0, 2 and 6 to no avail.

One strange observation - when I connected the BC2300 the time appeared in the BL3500 display.  The BC2300 that I am using does not have a clock/timer, and I cannot adjust the BL3500 clock to show the correct time.

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Posted August 22, 2024 at 13:46 GMT
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