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12V Over 10M Cable = Loss Of Power?

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Guy's so yesterday I installed my wireless PTZ dome camera... Another 3 sat here awaiting the rain to leave us!

 

Now it work's great using the supplied 12V 1AMP Power Supply... But once I extend the cable with a eBay 10M extension... The power drop's... Just dim visable light on the network connector... Camera fails to boot?

 

Please help...

 

What do I need?

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10M shouldn't have that much effect on voltage drop. Sounds more like bad connector(s) or cables. Or very possibly it's eBay - not necessarily known for the high quality of products sold there...

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So you think the cable's I have purchased are not upto the job? I have purchased 4 of them, Tried them all with 4 different power adaptors, Different PTZ's same result's...

 

Even cut one cable up and made it no more then 3M Still the same, But I did notice the cables are really thin, When I made them shorter, Would this effect anything?

 

MonsterCS

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So the father came yesterday with the meter and adjustable power supply which you can control the volt's and amp's...

 

The PTZ and power supply which came supplied say 12V

 

Using the 10M cable it took 20V 0.3 Amp to get the PTZ to power up, When the PTZ motor's were running the volts dropped to 11V at the PTZ and in idle the volts were 15-16V at the PTZ, So would you say this is cable loss, Would you suggest a much better quailty power extension cable?

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OK we have now tried another cable, Which should have no loss for the price paid, But still the same result, Fails to boot...

 

So what would people suggest? Can any body advise?

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Hi with you testing and the amount of voltage you have given your camera I would look to see if you do have a 12v and not a 24v

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What do you mean? When no extension cable is used, the 12v adapter supplied work's, We only need to go to 24V when we use an extension, We can not understand why this is...

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Sorry just noticed 12v 1amp

 

32feet should not be a problem for 12v but your amps are two low

 

5amp would be right and work

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