Like this - just the little black toslink "box" that I can fit to a PCB?



Basically, I have one of these;

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...=97124&doy=5m3

But mines the later one without the optical audio output

Now, I took it apart and looked at the PCB inside - it still has the space and the holes in it for an optical toslink header.....

So, I was wondering if I got hold of the header itself, could I fit it to the PCB to see if the firmware still supported it?

Pic of PCB;



Optical header spot is far left, next to the VGA output...

 

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSear...sp?SKU=1225772

anyuse????

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search2/br...questid=175095

 

Don't know - doesn't show a picture

 

look on the data sheet then

 

Don't know

 

Found this on Google;



Toshiba TOTX173 - Farnell's site doesn't list them tho.... Don't know if the 177 will do the same thing mind.... Seems that TORX is a reciever (input) and TOTX is a Transmitter (ouptut)....

But can't order off that site Eagle posted - as minimium order os £20 excluding VAT

 

ok .. looked hard ..
and found

nothing really

can't beleive they are impossible to find in the uk .. how about a cheap sound card with one on from ebay or summit...

 

I thought that aswell - I have an optical soundcard, and they can be bought on ebay for less than a tenner - but a tenner is a lot of money if this don't work. And it's a lot fo money if I cannot remove the optical header from the soundcard with the pins intact

 

shouldn't be that hard to do .. need to find out what voltage it supplies on the board... from what i have seen some require 3.3volts and some 5 volts