Hi

Sorry your right I get no image.....

So I have ruled power out by taking power right to the camera and not across
the length and it still doesn't work. The length is about 20 feet, the cable
I use is the same cable I ran a smaller camera off (same length) just before
swapping to this, I did do some rerouting though so the cable was taken
down, relaid and terminated.

I have shorted one end of the video side and went to the other and got a
shorted reading on my Multimeter so I am convinced the cable is fine.....

Is there any issue in the way I have wired it? I used the outer braid as the
gnd for the video signal and the black core for the gnd for the power. Its
9v regulated supply. I have no idea of ampage sorry.

The video and power do not share a commom ground because of above....

I am connecting the camera to an IP Server box (Small black box with 4 video
inputs that sits on your lan. I took another camera and connected it into
the port of the IP Server and the port worked.

Its a head scratcher all right

Thanks

Paul
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"Pedro Popadopolous" wrote in
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Hi All,

So can anyone help me :-(

It does help if you tell us the problem!

I assume you are not getting a video signal from your camera.
If you connect the camera to the monitor directly, do you get a picture?

Is the 4 core cable alarm cable?
If so, how long is the run?

From my experience when installing cameras at my house (9 of them so far!)
unless you use proper co-ax for the video feed, the quality of the picture
is **** poor.

I used RG59 cable for all my cameras - the cameras in and outside the
garages, at the top of the garden, some 70m of cable away, all have
excellent images.

If your runs are short, then the "4 core" may be acceptable (but coax
would be better!)

Have you checked that the camera is powered up OK and that the yellow
cable is ok (Swap the red and yellow both ends, then make sure the camera
is sill powered up - if it is, then the yellow is fine, if not, then your
yellow wire is broken somewhere!

If the cables are all OK, and the camera defiantly works, is there a way
you can connect the monitor up to the camera with a short lead (but
leaving the camera powered via the long one)? - Sometimes you get too much
voltage drop over a long cable, then the camera fails to work.

Give us some more info on your setup, including power supply voltage and
amperage, model of camera, length of cable run, type of monitor,
multiplexer, switcher etc...

Sparks...