How Do I Get A Longer Power Cord For My Pixpo Camera
| MichelR | 2014-Aug-18 vi:27 am [Serious] Extension string for IP camera?I recently bought a IP camera (no fourth dimension to get into the reasons right now). As with a lot of electronics, the power cord is rather brusk (roughly a meter and a one-half, maybe a niggling less). Unsurprisingly, such a short length does not allow me to place it where I'd like. What would be a safe (as in adhere to the electrical code and won't kickoff a fire or even just damage the camera) solution to the short power string? This is for my condo, and so information technology's not going to be running within the walls or anything - I just want the camera set higher above the wall outlet than the cord allows me. I've heard that an extension cord is not a good idea for a permanent solution? (Never mind that we had PCs at work hooked up to cheap extensions twenty+ years agone. |
| · actions · 2014-Aug-18 half-dozen:27 am · | |
| | 2014-Aug-eighteen 6:36 am What kind of ability supply does the camera use? Better still what model camera? What kind of DC output plug is on it? Is it POE? How much further practise you need to get with the power cable? There'southward also petty information you're providing here to explore diverse options. |
| · actions · 2014-Aug-eighteen vi:36 am · | |
| MichelR | 2014-Aug-18 seven:25 am Yep I wasn't sure what information was pertinent, so I waited until somebody asked something specific. The photographic camera is a D-Link DCS-5020L. This is from the transmission: Power I don't know what POE means? I'm still debating placement for the photographic camera, simply I'd say 2m extra at near, *perchance* 3m. |
| · actions · 2014-Aug-18 vii:25 am · | |
| 2 edits | 2014-Aug-18 7:56 am I don't encounter any reason why yous can't use an Ac extension cord for your camera, other than having to look at an ugly wall wart dangling in the middle of the wall. As a prettier alternative, you can buy a DC extension cable, one end female, the other end male, that will extend the 12VDC further to your IP photographic camera. Here's some examples, I'1000 sure you can find a local electronics shop that might accept them: However y'all need to get the correct diameter plug and jack. They come in all kinds of sizes, either measure with a caliper, or bring the Air-conditioning adapter with you to the electronics store to detect the right ane that fits. Endeavor this store locally, they probably have it: »www.gervaiselectronics.ca/ |
| · deportment · 2014-Aug-18 7:56 am · | |
| | 2014-Aug-18 9:06 am Just advice I tin can offer? Code doesn't allow extension cords to be used for "permanent" installation - so no fastening, no angling through the wall, etc. Information technology would piece of work, but isn't technically allowed for long-term utilise. It'll be a lilliputian ugly to use an extension cord - something like this: »www.dlink.com/ca/en/busi ··· pter-kit Would make it much cleaner - it runs the ability over the Ethernet cable; then splits it dorsum out at the Camera end; merely may exist a little spendy, since information technology's considered a "business" production... People have made their own power injectors also, simply don't know how comfortable y'all are with electronics and wiring. |
| · deportment · 2014-Aug-xviii 9:06 am · | |
| | 2014-Aug-18 9:12 am Others accept answered your question, so I'll only provide a tip for side by side fourth dimension. This way y'all can plug the camera in wherever you can run ethernet with no power required virtually the camera. |
| · actions · 2014-Aug-eighteen 9:12 am · | |
| | 2014-Aug-xviii ix:fourteen am Merely make sure your extension cord is certified by either CSA and/or UL(C) and it should be rubber enough to employ. Brand sure it's not subject to water, elevated humidity, direct oestrus, etc. A DC extension is non a very good idea every bit at that place is much more loss of power to heat the longer the cord gets with DC than with AC. PoE means Power over Ethernet, which allows you to power the device through the Ethernet cable if both the device and the networking device it's continued to support it, as well as the Ethernet cable connecting them. It'due south very unlikely to be the instance in your situation so I would rule that out. |
| · deportment · 2014-Aug-18 9:fourteen am · | |
| | 2014-Aug-18 10:03 am Meh, I've done ghetto DC extensions all over the shop for IP cameras... just cut the wire, splice and solder at both ends and done... Some are like 20 feet long and there's no issues with the IP Camera, and they work fine with the PTZ motors and IR led'south. I've even done ghetto PoE, using 2 pairs of ethernet for power, and 2 for ethernet. It works. |
| · deportment · 2014-Aug-18 ten:03 am · | |
| | 2014-Aug-eighteen 10:22 am A DC extension is not a very skillful idea as there is much more loss of ability to oestrus the longer the cord gets with DC than with Air-conditioning. For the length and estimate of wire in this situation (no more 6 feet, 18AWG typical), the loss of power to estrus is negligible, do your Ohms law. I install short DC extension cords more times than I care to think about, no issues whatever. |
| · actions · 2014-Aug-18 10:22 am · | |
| i edit | 2014-Aug-18 11:40 am PoE - Power over Ethernet. In a PoE organisation an injector (midspan, switch, etc) mixes -48Volt power with the data, at the photographic camera or other device end a similar device extracts the power from the data, converts it to the required voltage to ability the device. If you have seen a Cisco IP desk-bound phone in an role its powered past PoE. The reason for the loftier voltage is to reduce current loss along the Ethernet cable. Injectors and spliters are dropping in price however if this camera is just a 100/10 MBPS device a home mash solution will work perfectly. At these speeds but ii of the pairs are conveying data, the rest do zero, then you tap into the unused pair and send power downward them to the other finish. Actually its just a thing of hacking a patch cablevision with the appropriate male person/female power connectors and making sure the polarity is right. Here is a link y'all might find useful about DIY PoE: »tuxgraphics.org/electron ··· oe.shtml EDIT: if you lot are using wireless and simply need power, measure the power connector (butt connector) and social club a pre-made cable + a female barrel connector of the aforementioned size from an electronics parts place (like Digikey or a brick and mortar store). I did this considering my modem used a rather odd sized barrel connector and none of the DC power connectors I had would fit information technology. |
| · actions · 2014-Aug-eighteen 11:40 am · | |
| MichelR | 2014-Aug-18 6:56 pm Alright, I'm back from work. Lots of interesting information in this thread, cheers all! Learned quite a few things in that location. I had no idea what to wait for, actually. I did see that Foscam had power cable extensions (DC, I estimate) for their cameras on Amazon, but just about every piece of info I found otherwise was about using extension cords, all the manner upwards to adding wall outlets (a flake overkill for a couple of cameras!) It *looks* like the DC extension cablevision suggested past ArthurS will exist the style to go in my case. I shouldn't demand very long cables, then any possible loss of ability will almost likely not exist a problem. PoE is not an option with this model of camera, plus that would require quite a long Ethernet cable for 1 of the cameras (though I probably have one long enough, from my pre-WiFi days when I had a bunch of cables running all over on the floor...) Now looking at local suppliers for DC cables, in case there'southward one close by (Gervais is a hike from here). Cheers again! |
| · deportment · 2014-Aug-eighteen 6:56 pm · | |
| iv edits | 2014-Aug-nineteen five:53 pm I've powered a TrendNet PTZ photographic camera over fifty human foot of Cat6 via the ghetto PoE method, worked fantastic for the 2 years I had information technology setup. Equally HiVolt mentioned, 2 pairs for 100mbit Ethernet, 2 pairs for power. The camera I used is powered by a 12V source which does allow you a decent corporeality of length before voltage drop becomes a problem with two pairs of cat6. I've tried this method with 5V cameras before merely the voltage drib was too great, you need at least 9V at the source to compensate for a 50 foot length. The voltage drop with 12V is a much smaller overall percent which the camera is much less likely to be afflicted by. In the stop its all regulated to much lower voltages inside the camera. There is no oestrus on the cable, you're dealing with peanuts for wattage. It besides doesn't wait whatever less professional if you heatshrink all your connections. If you don't want to go that route, but extend the adapter cable. Buy some cheap speaker cable (similar guess as the ability adapter) and extend the wires. On most wall wart plug packs, 1 wire has a white stripe, brand sure that remains the aforementioned when you splice via the speaker cablevision. |
| · deportment · 2014-Aug-19 5:53 pm · | |
| MichelR | 2014-Aug-20 6:13 am ugh - I'm not actually comfortable doing this. The about "techy" thing I've washed with wires is strip and plug in speaker cables. |
| · actions · 2014-Aug-xx 6:13 am · | |
| | 2014-Aug-20 11:xiii am We're setting up a surveillance system for a new function, and we went with IP cameras with PoE support too. We got an 8-port gigabit Netgear PoE switch (with PoE on all 8 ports) for $150, the cost has come up downwards a lot. We've got six cameras, one port for connecting to the server, 1 empty. |
| · actions · 2014-Aug-xx 11:thirteen am · | |
| MichelR | 2014-Aug-20 vii:33 pm This guy here has a pretty sweet setup: »world wide web.thomasclaudiushuber. ··· south-phone/ |
| · actions · 2014-Aug-20 vii:33 pm · | |
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