camera setup help

[rharris118 0]

Hi, I need some help as I cant understand what I need to complete the system.

 

There is a camera up outsite my house which was there before I moved in, I now want to get it working. whoever lived here before me obviously just cut the cables and took the equipment.

 

what I have at the minute is a camera on the wall, the cable comes out into an external box. inside the box the video has been spliced onto what looks like a coax cable. the power part of the cable has a converter on it that goes to 2 cables (red and black) these along with the coax go inside the property but has no ends on the cables.

 

my question is where do I go from here. what ends do I need to put on them. obviously I need to put power through the red/black that's fine. but what about the video cable. can I just put a connection on it to plug it into a tv?

 

sorry but I don't know much about cctv.

 

thanks!

 

Richard.

[lowpro 0]

Have any pictures to post?

[rharris118 0]

Have any pictures to post?

 

sorry unfortunately not, its now dark so you wouldn't see anything if I took some now. there isn't much to look at. just 2 black cables, one containing the 2 power wires and one that is just a single copper core.

 

the camera is a dome camera, wall mounted and obviously night vision judging from the IR leds it contains.

[cctvmann 0]

Have any pictures to post?

 

sorry unfortunately not, its now dark so you wouldn't see anything if I took some now. there isn't much to look at. just 2 black cables, one containing the 2 power wires and one that is just a single copper core.

 

the camera is a dome camera, wall mounted and obviously night vision judging from the IR leds it contains.

sounds to me like its a bnc type connection and yes you could plug into the tv on the yellow phono connection using a bnc to male phono converter.