biggestbird

Thanks, but have had the Bunker Hill unit too long; will read up on rest!

I'm fairly novice at this and due to financial situations and a wish list that grows far faster than it will ever get reduced, so I bought a Bunker Hill Security system from Harbor Freight Tools with 2 cameras that connect to a monitor via the following: 1 ea) 25' yellow and white RCA male to female adapter beside a DC in to out cable which connects to a 3 as above female to a male 5 pin male that fits only one position into the back of the monitor for the left camera and right camera. 1 ea) yellow & white male RCA to 3(?) mm that supposedly connects from the monitor to your TV. Since I figured this was somewhat a waste if you couldn't record and would never be able to man the monitor 24/7/365, I bought an ANRAN 8ch H.264 stand alone and installed a 500gb HD, then tried to figure how to attach these cameras with or without the monitor which they came with. Being I could not find a "pin" adapter to male BNC, I went to several electrical connector sellers from Radio Shack to Best Buy to Home Depot and Lowe's. A guy at Home Depot told me to get adapters (both RCA and BNC) RG cable, a crimping tool all told about $70 worth to get it but didn't tell me if we were just connecting the cameras or replacing the cables entirely, but the math didn't add up, so I went online and found RCA splitters (2 females to male) and female RCA to BNC male singles and don't see why I can't plug in the above 25' cables into these and into the back of the DVR. Only thing would be the DC in/out would not be plugged in on the adapter ends. Is there something I'm missing here, trying to make it less difficult or is it at all possible so I can get it up and running until I can afford more cameras perhaps later?