Re: Did it hurt it: accidental plug in av cable into mic-in jack, hooked to tv, powerup, in standby mode, and playback mode

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:41:44 -0500, "David Ruether"
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>"steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Camcorder question here.
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>> I accidentally pluged the av cable that splits into the yellow red
>> white, into the microphone in jack, as the two are right next to each
>> other.  I wanted to play the tape on the tv.  The tv was powered on,
>> as was the camcorder.  The camcorder was temporily in standby mode,
>> until I could switch it to the playback the video mode.
>> Did I hurt he microphone jack.  Is there power going from the tv
>> inputs to along the av cable that could have hurt the microphone jack.
>> I would think that the people who made the camcorder would make it
>> idiot proof.  If you say it would not hurt it, why not?
>> If you say it might have hurt it, why?
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>> Lets take the worst case scenario, that the camcorder was in standby
>> mode, as if you were setting up for a shot, with the av connected to
>> this microphone jack, then you hit the record button.  That would not
>> make a difference would it?
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>The simplest thing to do is try shooting with the camera and see if
>the sound is OK (very likely, since the other end of the cable was
>connected to the TV *input*, which would very likely have no
>signal on it...). It is unlikely that the AV cable would physically
>damage the mic input jack though it is possible, since it is a bit
>different - but recording through the camera's mic will likely tell
>you if there was physical damage. If you have proper stereo
>sound using the camera's mic in recorded video, it is VERY
>unlikely that any damage occurred...

Thanks.
I cross posted this question.
>From the rec.video.production thread I wrote this to answer the 
question:
>Has something stopped working?
which was asked.

My response:

I do not know yet.  I do not have an official nice microphone to test
it with.  I do have an old stereo microphone that would plug into a 
nice walkman.  The plug is affixed to the 3/4" square microphone.
There is no wire.  It is a pointy plug, I imagine like a regular
microphone, but , since I do not have an expensive microphone with the
jack attached to it, I do not know for sure.  There is no power that
comes out of that little microphone.  

Does the camcorder send a little power to that microphone through the
microphone jack?

Do you think that is a safe little microphone to test it with?

Thanks.