jason1838

I'm needing to install a 16ch system with runs around 2,000ft. 1 will be 2,400ft, and 1 will be 600ft, the rest are less than 2,000ft. I'm wanting to use a rack mount hub, but I'm unsure if I should use passive or active. All of the wiring will be done with cat5e flooded. I have heard that NVT and VU are good. Which would you recommend?

I read up on using shielded cat5, and NVT doesn't recommend it. So now I'm wondering about cat6 throughout the whole project. Still waiting on some alternatives to NVT. I only have experience with some cheaper active baluns imported from china, and some passive telpix which have seemed to work well in the past.

thanks for the input. What would you use for this setup? NVT is expensive... I liked the idea of having a hub to keep things clean and neat, but it is not necessary. I have no problem mixing passive and active, passive and passive, and active and active. I would rather just use cat5e throughout. I will be running through a noisy environment. Would shielded cat5e help reduce interference? The price difference isn't all that much to use shielded wire, but also don't want to waste money on wire if it could be spent on the balun side of things.

How about an NVT NV-1662 active hub and NVT NV-208A-M passive baluns? I only want to do this once... What are your thoughts on running 24VAC up to 500ft using 2 pairs of the cat5? I'm using box cameras that consume 3 watts. How does the power in the cat5 affect the quality of video?

I'm getting ready to order up the items I need. Who here can sell me VU baluns? I also need to get some samsung box cameras, enclosures, mounts, and an eyemax dvr.

What determines a high quality cat5 cable? I was planning on using flooded since this system is mostly outdoors. Looks like i can't post a link. If you search google for: "5NF4 Ultra II Enhanced Category 5e Outdoor", you will find the spec sheet for this cable.

Thanks for the input. I will have to do 1 splice per run. Planning on using a 110 punch down block for the splices. Does that put me back to active then? Can I not do this? camera--------(100-500ft of RG59)--------passive balun---------(900 - 1300ft of cat5e)---------- passive balun----DVR or would you recommend this: camera----active balun -----------(100-500ft cat5e)----110 connecting block ------- (900-1300ft of cat5e) -------- passive or active balun ---- DVR

Well, I did some rough measurements and took a different path and most of the runs are less than 1500 ft now! Here are my run lengths: these runs will have about 900ft conduit #1 - 1400 #2 - 1400 #3 - 1300 #4 - 1400 #5 - 1300 #6 - 1200 #7 - 1100 #8 - 1000 #9 - 1100 #10 - 1100 #11 - 1200 these runs will have 1300ft conduit #12 - 2500 #13 - 2400 #14 - 2500 #15 - 2300 this has about 300ft of conduit #16 - 700 I'm wondering about using RG59 with 18/2 after the conduit then having passive hubs on each end of the conduit. I was originally planning on running a separate 18/2 wire with the cat5 in the buildings to power the cameras, I've heard some bad things about running power on cat5... Siamese cable seems like a simpler way to go inside the buildings. What are your thoughts on having a system with both RG59 and CAT5? Quality is one of my biggest concerns with this system, but then again so is price. Would passive work if i was just using cat5 inside the conduit?