badmop

I have some BRAND new cat5e cable that is having some issues, it doesn't want to feed proper power, so I decided to do a 85ft run for video only, used all wires inside for the video, and the video is blurry. It's not the camera, it was fine before on previous cable. I swapped the cable and perfect picture again. Swapped another camera onto this new cat5e cable and blurry too. Checked everything, the cable spool I bought evidently is garbage. I guarantee it's your cable, nothing else left I suppose.

You could always take a clear dome and on the inside (maybe outside?) spray it with that product that comes in a spray can for blacking out tail lights, amazon should have it, local automotive places. Smoking it yourself that way, and testing to see if the camera can see out alright. Just a thought

Power and signal is currently separate, but I fear the stupid cat5e cable is the issue, I'm going to do some more testing tonight and tomorrow I will be running new cable probably, regardless. I thought I had read that LVC work doesn't have a code? thanks

It is this one and it is very nice for what it cost, I am very surprised. It weighs around 10lbs. I'm not one of the typical around here that cheap out, or have horrible install practices. (not trying to be a jerk or out of the way, just stating, I don't expect the world for the cost, but the quality so far and picture is very surprising how nice, and it actually has 36x optical zoom) *The listing says 30x, but it's actually 36x* (it was a purchase to see just what kind of product it was) I do not know if the specs in the manual it came with are correct though. Currently, I have it temp powered with the stock power supply plugged directly into it, and an extension cord going to it to test and see if any issues arise. Video is still running through my cat5 cable with the 2 controller wires also run through the cat5 video cable. http://www.ebay.com/itm/181735754445?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT I have a 12v 5a power supply and it did the same thing, and the stock power supply is 12v 4a Thanks

I forgot to mention, the cable is CCA, but that shouldn't matter a whole lot as I've said, it's a very short run I think, around 50ft max.

After some more searching, I've found it may matter which cables I use inside the cat5e, true? I took all the white wires and used those as the - and I used all the colored wires as + for my power cable. Will this strangely cause voltage loss or something odd? I could understand if my problem was on a super long cable, but it's not long. I am going to take my meter and check the voltage I'm getting at the end of the cable later. Info on power for the PTZ camera: Power Supply: DC12v/4A PTZ drive: DC12v/0.5A IR Lights power supply: DC12v/1.8A Lens Drive: DC12v/200mA Camera power supply: DC12v/500mA Also, does this matter? When I connect my wires into my simple baluns, I twist the wires together. I use the kinda balun things like this one (on the right) http://www.cctv42.co.uk/media/cache/resolve/cms_cke_media_inline/uploads/media/b33cec7427c045ccc61b0c2e7273b4e43b710a01.jpeg thanks

Depending on your power situation, you could get a wifi router to connect to the WIFI cameras, you wouldn't need actual internet service, you could work off the internal IP of the router to transmit the IP Cameras video wireless.

Maybe because at night, the night vision is pulling more power than during the day. So for some odd reason, the more power being pulled at night on that cable is a bad combo, so goes back to the cable being bad?