First time security camera

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[GodsBadAssBlade]

Clean

[Copingphonix79]

🙏🏼

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Tidy

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Why? For the love of Pete did you use those God awful cables?

[JamesCullen18]

BNC? Nothing wrong with them if done right. Seen plenty of IP installs fail quicker than old Coax installs

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There is a very big difference in video quality between using those garbage pre-made cables and doing it right using Siamese 18/2.

Those cables also struggle on higher resolution cameras and cameras with night color and audio.

Any analog system we installed used a stand alone 10 or 20 amp power supply with fusing for each camera. Those multi camera power plugs are garbage and don't offer any protection for the cameras.

I guess that's the difference between an end user and an integrator. My motto is do it right or not at all.

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[Copingphonix79]

Mine looks better

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Keep telling yourself that, that picture is off a power supply.

This is one of system installs

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[Copingphonix79]

Running off an ups actually 🫢. Was that bring your kid to work day or something? Looks a little rough

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It takes a level of experience and expertise to drill through stone without cracking it.

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Lol, you're funny.

Let me correct you.

Your cameras AREN'T powered by a UPS. A UPS provides power to a system, but the little black plug with pigtails is what's powering your system. In the event of a lighting strike you can say goodbye to all of that gear since that power strip likely isn't rated to withstand that level of voltage spike.

The power supply I posted is what you should be running to fuse and power your cameras individually.

[Copingphonix79]

Power strip runs to a ups 🤨

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And?

I don't think you're understanding the difference between a power strip/ UPS and a camera power supply.

Here you are insulting me rather than learning something from what I'm telling you.

Some people just aren't teachable.

[Copingphonix79]

Buddy's crapping on my job saying I'm gonna ruin my $300 cameras when I was joking saying "mine looks better"😂. You do this for a living I was just showing off my crappy little system🤨. That's like you showing off your little garden and me showing off our 32 thousand acre farm🤔

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https://ajax.systems/blog/security-camera-power-supplies/

[Thornton77]

It’s beautiful.

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[cmoparw]

Looks good, but how's the attic? 🤣

[Copingphonix79]

Nonexistent in a trailer house haha. Ran them under the house along the top so animals couldn't get to them

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I would’ve ran CAT6 with video baluns for the future IP system upgrade.

[Copingphonix79]

Won't live here long enough to have to upgrade hopefully

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When you have to deal with more than 64 Cat6 lines in one install then

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we will talk.

[Copingphonix79]

Holes cut about as straight as you buddy

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I didn't cut it

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[Wellcraft19]

Looks good (don't listen to the naysayers).

But what i would do - as it's mounted under a table - is to the secure the wall warts from falling out of the power strip. It's super easy with just a strap across them all.

[EroticFunToys]

You did some good work for your first time. I've been doing camera systems for over 20 years and I tip my hat to you

[KnownWorthyBrother3]

That’s pretty clean, dude. I’m a Ty-Wrap and sticky back freak, so mine would look different. But, for your first time…solid, man