Hi Mike,

Thanks for your reply. This camera is similar to the Redlake Motionscope
series from the mid to late 1990s.

I am confident that there is something wrong - the level of "banding" makes
it impossible to actually see what is going on in the image and is clearly
not present in the photos taken by the seller.

I am checking the power supply but having difficulty because I do not know
what voltages are supposed to be on some of the connector pins and there do
not seem to be marked test points on the PCB in the controller. I have not
tried opening up the camera itself yet.

I am concerned that a power supply problem is not all that likely because
it was working before shipping. It is always possible that shipping could
have, say, made a tantalum cap fail when it was ready to fail but it can't
make an aluminum electrolytic go high ESR, for example. This is why I want
to beep-out the cable, too, but for that I need the pinout once again.

Sean



On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Mike Harrison <mike@whitewing.co.uk> wrote=
:

> On Sun, 12 May 2013 21:07:19 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Hi all (especially Mike Harrison because I have seen some of his Youtube
> >vids about high speed cameras),
> >
> >I recently acquired an Olympus Encore motion analysis system on eBay. It
> >has an Encore MAC-8000S camera as well as the camera controller/video
> >recorder unit and a whole bunch of accessories.
> >
> >It looks to be in good shape and the seller shows still photos which mak=
e
> >it seem that it is working. However, I am finding that the video has a
> >tremendous amount of noisy but mostly periodic "banding" through it. I
> >suspect either a power supply problem or a bad connection - possibly in
> the
> >cable between the camera and the control unit.
> >
> >I am looking especially for the pinout of either end of the cable which
> >connects the control unit to the camera. Does anyone have that info or
> know
> >where I might find it?
>
> Never heard of this camera - bear in mind that high-speed cams have some
> compromises on image
> quality to get the maximum speed.
> PSUs are always a good place to start
>
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