RinkRat

Hey rory, thx for the repy. Camera in question is the Panasonic WV-BP144, link is here http://www.panasonic.com/business/security/cameras_lenses.asp It's under fixed b/w cameras... bottom of page. Operating instructions show 1 wire to ground, 2 to power.

Hey folks... nice place you have here. Hope ya'll can answer what I assume will be a pretty straight forward question for most of you. I'm going to be doing a self install, 7or 8 24v cameras, using an Altronix power supply. DVR will be a Geovision system I've built myself. Question needing an answer concerns the cameras. Was going to run 18/2 power wire until I noticed a groung screw on the cameras. Should I be running 18/3 and grounding the cams? Do I have to ground them? If so, will the Altronix power supply have a place to ground all cameras to or is there someplace else I should be looking to ground to. Thanks in advance for any response guys(gals).