Hello to everyone here, I am a new guy and have always used traditional rg-6 for video transmission. A long while back when I discovered that video could be transmitted along cheap cat 5 utp I got very interested.
Since so many buildings and homes now days have extra cat 5 cables ran as part of the infrastructure wiring, this would make my job so much easier.
I was playing around here at home with a run of about 200 feet of cat 5 also providing 12 vdc.
I used the orange pair for power and the blue pair for video.
I DID NOT use a video balun.
surprisingly enough while observing polarity ( although I know this is an impedence mismatch), I have a pretty decent video transmission from a color camera.
I couldn't believe I had anything at all without the baluns. I do notice in the sun I have a horizontal sweeping line that runs slowly from right to left in the image if you look closely.
I will assume a video balun will get rid of this.
Just wanted to share my experience.
Thanks
