[Elecraft] P3 and Apple Display monitor

[Barry Baines]

Phil:
 
> On Mar 10, 2016, at 6:15 PM, PHILIP GRAITCER <pgraitc at me.com> wrote:
> 
> I've just installed an svga card in my P3 and I'm trying to get it to work with a 7 or 8 year old apple display monitor. It has a DVI male connector so I purchased a DVI to VGA adapter. But the setup doesn't seem to work. Any idea why? Any experience with this monitor and the P3 or is there a comparability problem?

One potential problem is that a DVI monitor is not necessarily designed to work with a SVGA video source.  DVI uses digital signals whereas SVGA uses analog signals. In some cases, a DVI source in fact produces both analog and digital (on different pins) which is why a DVI-to-VGA adapter may work with a DVI source connecting to an analog display.

BTW, which Apple Monitor are you attempting to connect?

In your case, you have an analog source attempting to provide video to a digital monitor.  I’m not aware any pure SVGA source being compatible with an Apple DVI monitor.  The P3 SVGA card expects to be connected to a VGA display, not a DVI.

On a different note:  I trust you’re having fun with your setup in SE Georgia. My Elecraft setup is working well in Folkston and I access it remotely to check into the Sunday AMSAT Net from Massachusetts plus listen around the bands.

73,

Barry, WD4ASW
Westborough, MA
Folkston, GA 


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