RE: Re: CCTV on CAT5

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, as it happens, I decided to go one better anyway, and I've just got
back from Henry's on Edgware Road armed with 2 shiny new day/night
cameras..
:-)

These have 1m of captive lead, that splits into two thinner cables
terminating in a BNC for the video and a mini-jack socket for power.

I'm going to cut the video end off where they split (then I son't have to
bother identifying which cores are power or video inside the cable... power
I'll leave alone, and power the camera locally via a wall-wart.

I'll either solder the bare cable to some cores in the CAT5, at each end...
- or I suppose I could try to crimp on an RJ45 plug in place of the BNC,
then I could run it "properly" over the structured cabling... -
Anyone
reckon doing it that way would introduce any problems?

Paul G.



>From: "keyvan2r" <keyvan@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: CCTV on CAT5
>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:37:07 -0000
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> > I'm right in thinking I can run bog standard CCTV cameras over
>CAT5 cable  aren't I?
> > Hope so, since I was smart enough to put in a couple of spare
runs
>of CAT5
> > to precisely the position I want the camera to be... :-)
> > How about multiple cameras off one cable? - I'm assuming I need 3
>cores per  camera? - 2 for power & Ground, 1 for video? - or should
>I use 2 for video
> > as well & keep the signal ground seperate?
>The length of the run would be about 15-20 metres...
> >
> > Paul G.
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>Paul
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>I am using a pair of these which seem to work fine:
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>http://www.lektropacks.co.uk/dept.asp?dept%5Fid=74
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>Not cheap I know! But I need the audio and I may at some point use
>their dist. hub for multi-clients.
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>I am told you don't really need the ballon side of things. If you
>are handy with a soldering iron you can just use the pairs directly.
>Russound do some standard cat5 to Phono composite video ballons too.
>The are about £40 a pair from cyberselect (I think)
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>Keyvan
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