installing an SDI card into a PVM monitor

[Del Chapple]

Usually they just snap in. But sometimes Sony make you disassemle boards but the components come with instructions. No instructions with the card?

del

you cant hear my inner voice scream… can you..?

[Toby Heslop]

Thanks Del,

Yes I know they snap in pretty much, though I can’t find where the wires snap into and on which chipboards, the board is mounted, just need to connect the wires

[Del Chapple]

found this old thread, i dont have any manuals for CRT SDI cards(all of mine are Component with AJA boxes doing the work). Keep digging you might find what you are looking for. The sony option cards though usually come with a small amount of literature that just literally says unscrew this, place coax here and refer to the Manual for operatopnal help.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/21/854722#854730

del

you cant hear my inner voice scream… can you..?

[Toby Heslop]

yeah, I have seen this one before,

they talk about fitting the SDI card into a monitor not designed for the model card,

I have some doco on how to install but it’s for a 20inch and I’m trying to install in a 14inch as the card came from a busted 20inch.

the card is mounted correctly in the monitor, I have 2 cable ends from it that need to connect to the monitor,

One is a 6 wire connecter, and the other is a 3 wire connector, but with only one wire in it.
And there is a small external chipboard connected between the wires that I guess should be seated some where

[Don Hans]

Where did you get the SDI card? I have a PVM 1351 that I want to add SDI to.

[Toby Heslop]

I bought the card from Ebay. I’m not sure if the same model fits in your monitor. It would be wise find out first. Then do a search online and you should be able to find someone selling a used card.

[François Zaidi]

Hello !

Well I am aware that this thread is super old, but I am in need of the same information.

I have a pvm 14M4 and which to install a bkm-101c into it. The problem is there are 2 wires and pluggs I have no idea where to put.

Have you solve your problem or has anyone a copy of the sont bkm-101c user manual ?

Thank you

[Toby Heslop]

I don’t have the monitors anymore but if I remember correctly one cable routes to a chip in the central floor chipboard, the other routes under the front of the screen, then up and down to a plug on the opposite vertical chipboard!

MacPro 2010, 16TB Mini SAS RAID, BM Decklink HD, CS6, Resolve 9, AVID MC, Red Epic

[François Zaidi]

Thanks a bunch for the reply.

Is it a straitforward install or should I buy the bkm101c manual ?

Also, did these cables enabled you to have embedded sound ?

[Toby Heslop]

I found the install fairly striaght forward but I had done 2 of these and did recieve some parts of a manuel when I purchased the SDI component from Ebay.

I’d call it a logical install but it may help you to have the manuel, which possibly you can find online.

There’s no audio unless you purchase the audio component also but I believe these are rare + if you only using to monitor from say a MB or AJA card via SDI, you audio monitoring should route through XLR to studio speakers! the PVM speakers are crap, would only use them to test audio on a dvd Video disk or so, but not for NLE editing.

If i think back to installing the card, there 1 x cabl plug, 1 x chipboard plug and a small plug that provideds power to the chipboard. If you send me photos I can highlight where the connections are

toby@tobyheslop.com.au

MacPro 2010, 16TB Mini SAS RAID, BM Decklink HD, CS6, Resolve 9, AVID MC, Red Epic