junya 0 Posted January 18, 2007 can you splice rg59 to cat5 using a balun? heres the scenario, i got about 30 ft from camera to splice point which is rg 59. i got about 300 from splice point to home of cat 5. well, i wont blame anyone but my co worker pulled six rg59s home instead of seven. the pull was pretty hard and took us 5 hours (underground, existing wires in pipe etc). anyway, i was planning to grab a spare pair from a cat5 which we ran also. boss said that a cat5 pair of video to 59 via balun wont work and the video will be distorted. our company uses vigitron baluns. is it possible as i am hoping, or does anyone have info that may help me from pulling another wire? thanks! p.s. its hard to find good help nowadays! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rory 0 Posted January 18, 2007 yeah should work once you use a balun at each end. You will have some video quality loss for 300' and ofcourse the extra splice, but will work either way, once the baluns are good. Also, you need a Balun on each side, so essentially you can use a BNC adapter at the splice, but you cant just tie the 2 cables together without the Balun and BNC connectors. You'll need the BNC-female to BNC-female adapter also, to join them both together. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
junya 0 Posted January 18, 2007 thanks for the info. im guessing on 300 ft, more like 275. i do use the connectors you mentioned also. thanks again Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
501 0 Posted January 18, 2007 I just did the EXACT same thing because of anothers error. About 20 feet of RG59 to 400 Feet spliced Cat5 and it was decent and these were $20 baluns. You shouldn't have a problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
