Im helping out a friend of mine who owns a car dealership. The company who originally installed his cctv system did a shotty job... in the power supply, they used a screw as a fuse... aside from the point. The idiots used cable tv connectors on the cables not bnc so i went and bought some twist on bnc connectors, and they are on snug.
Basically they have a "junction box" where all the cameras run to this box, and then they connect to a set of cables to go to another building. When I had the dvr in that other bldg, the cameras worked fine. But when I put the dvr in the building same as the junction box, and ran new cable from that junction box to the new room where the dvr is, none of the video works.
The new cabling is rg59. The existing cables going to the cameras is RG6. I had the connector where you can connect 2 bncs together,,, kinda like a splice.... female to female coupler. Once when I moved the cable, the video came up for a brief second then nothing. I am without video.
Can I use rg6 with rg59? What I mean by this is the cable going to the cam is rg6, which goes to the junction box, which in there its connected to the female to female coupler, and on the other side of that is the rg59 going to my dvr.
The cameras I know work because I saw the video when the dvr was in the other building and that was using the twist on bnc connectors, so i know its not those.
Any solutions? This is aggravating especially being in the hot heat.
