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Default Where does Radio Shack hide their older manuals?

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 12:09:34 +0100, Adrian Caspersz
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Ah, light bulb moment. They categorised their scrapings.

https://archive.org/details/manuals_radioshack

But nothing found :-|

That mixer looks more like a trivial switch, and should be easy to buzz
out with a continuity tester to find the functions. I have a similar
Tandy Realistic 42-2115 tape control centre on the HiFi.

From left to right, I'd judge the purposes of the switches like:

VCR-1 & VCR-2
Selects sources for recording into each.

PROCESSOR
Connects via loop-out/loop-in an external video processor box in-line
with the selected input, hopefully* so that the enhanced signal can be
recorded with VCR-1 & VCR-2.

MONITOR
Merely connects to the source output, enhanced or not.

* should be easy to buzz out with a meter, or just try it.

Might not be you, but a lot of folks have issues with the directional
labels in & out, and yet fully manage to survive a trip to a supermarket
or the car park.

Do you really need the manual?

--
Adrian C


I probably dont really need the manual. I can understand the functions,
but I wanted to know how much gain was used on different inputs, or if
they are all the same. I can learn more by looking at a schematic than
reading a lot of info.

But at this point, I am not wasting any more time looking for a manual.
I'll just plug in a sine wave from my audio generator, and feed it to my
oscope to see what the gain is.

I should mention that I am not using this thing for video. I am only
using the audio portions to feed multiple inputs into an amplifier. All
inputs are about the same sound levels, so that is why I am concerned
about the gain.

I originally planned to build a switch box for this purpose. But the
price of a "bud box" (aluminum box) a rotary switch, and a bunch of RCA
jacks far exceeded the price of this Archer device. So, to save money,
as well as time, I thought this was the way to go. The video portions
just will not be used. (But I could use it for that purpose if I ever
needed to). I really dont mind building stuff from scratch, but when it
costs 3 or 4 times what it costs to buy something like this, there is no
sense to it. Not to mention all the drilling I'd have to do to mount all
the RCA jacks. (Thats the part I dont like).