Power/Wiring question

[Tiribulus 0]

Hi folks,

I have a BS Chinese DVR outfit that came with a power box for the BNC cameras and six leads I had to attach to the terminals. It's an 8 channel system and I have DIN cameras and adapters from a different system I'm going to put in those last 2 channels. The question is if it's a good idea to power more than one camera off each of those terminals in the power box? I can stick the 4 way DC splitter on one of the existing leads and then plug the camera that was on that lead and the other 2 into the splitter for ultra convenience, but I'm wondering it will pull too much juice off that single terminal/

Thanks

[Soundy 1]

If it was anything name-brand, I'd say you should be okay, since the power supply would almost certainly be de-rated to use well under its actual capacity.

 

Since it's no-name offshore crap though, I'd say you pays your money and you takes your chances... your idea SHOULD work, initially, but no guarantees on how long it KEEPS working, since the power supply probably has JUST enough juice for the supplied cameras.

[Tiribulus 0]

Thanks,

I had a feeling this was what I was going to hear. The box actually does seem to be passable quality and it even has a pot for adjusting the current, but I'll just use the plug that came with the Lorex adapter. Not a big deal, but it would have been nice to use that box and save an outlet on my overcrowded walls. Actually I could just splice the power leads from the adapters into the remaining 2 terminals in the box as well. Didn't think of that.

[jeromephone 6]

I would just get a couple of cheap wall warts and a power strip then when you have a problem it probably won't be from too much power draw from the dvr. plus the seperate wall warts will isolate the cameras from each other so ground loop problems will be lessened.