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nbcd



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Post Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:55 pm     Post subject: help on cabling
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hy all ,

I am a newbie in cctv. I've just finished my first project in a factory with a Samsung SDN 550 camera , 520 , and 6 i vision dome cameras and a 3S Systems DVR. Although the client accepted the project , i'm not satisfied at all about the results. I observed that the images were not so clear as i expected and the path zones between a light object and a dark one were not clear.

Anyway.. i wanted to ask you if the shielding from an utp cable must be connected to a ground or something.. Somewhere in this project i had to run a 180 meter utp cable to link the DVR video out with an LCD that was placed in another building , so i used tho baluns from GE security(passive) . I observed that if the shield isn't connected to the ground there are some lines that are over the image (hum,noise) but if i connect the shield to the DVR's case those lines dissapear but the image is distorted in the upper 1-2 centimeters of the screen. (something like little waves) .

Please let me know from your experience what should be done with the shields of the cables,what i have done wrong? What is better to be used UTP or coaxial? and which is the maximum cable length for the coaxial RG59 ?
I will appreciate if you paste a link about ground loops , that i don't know anything about.
With respect.

Eugen.
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wattwire



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Post Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:32 pm     Post subject: Re: help on cabling
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<<i wanted to ask you if the shielding from an utp cable must be connected to a ground or something..>>

The "u" in utp stands for unshielded. There is a casing, but it is not a conductor. So the answer is "no", connection to the baluns is all you need.

-dw
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survtech



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Post Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:45 pm     Post subject: Re: help on cabling
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nbcd wrote:
Anyway.. i wanted to ask you if the shielding from an utp cable must be connected to a ground or something.. Somewhere in this project i had to run a 180 meter utp cable to link the DVR video out with an LCD that was placed in another building , so i used tho baluns from GE security(passive) . I observed that if the shield isn't connected to the ground there are some lines that are over the image (hum,noise) but if i connect the shield to the DVR's case those lines dissapear but the image is distorted in the upper 1-2 centimeters of the screen. (something like little waves) .

What shielding? If you are using utp, there should be no shielding; just 4 pairs of twisted cable. Attach a balun to the same pair at each end using the same colors at the baluns' (+) and (-) connections and you should be good to go. You should not use other cable types (ie. shielded pair) or other cable sizes other than CAT-5, CAT-5e or CAT-6.
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