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Thats a horse of a different color. I thought the shield was like the foil shield on belden eight conductor or such. The shield in cctv rg-59 is a signal path. The shield must be making some contact in both shells for it to work now. I am at least not completely ignorant now. You not only want contact you must ensure robust contact. Why on earth numerous internet searches only brought up talk of grounding the shield and only on one end to avoid ground loop? Why you tube only discussing "removing" the shield prior to compression. Antenna applications? Anyway Thank You very much for your reply.

I apologize if this has been asked before. Running a camera to watch my puppy in the yard using the TV Vid input. I bought a old pelco and a used compression tool off e-bay. From what ive seen on youtube people are just removing the shield when using BNC compression fittings- so the shield does not contact the connector. My television has no ground prong. So if the shield is to be grounded it aint gonna get it from the TV. I saw some vids on you tube with the hex crimp type BNC connector that looked like they were folding the shield over to make contact with the BNC connector body. Confused. I havnt crimped any thing yet it all seems to work fine with the rg-59 just sitting in the connector. I could get a pigtail of the shield outside of the connector and run ground to it. Or i could ground the old pelco camera body and try to contact the shield at that end. My questions are 1. Using best practices should the rg-59 shield contact the camera bnc connector outer shell when the monitor (TV) is ungrounded? 2. Using best practices should the the rg-59 shield contact the TV RCA connector outer shell when the monitor (TV) is ungrounded? 3. After implementing best practices from the above two questions should I run a ground wire to the shield on one side of the run ? I know its probably doesnt make a difference for what im doing but I like to get things right. Whew this is a bit more than d-types. Thank You Ben