What is the best way to run security camera wires?
Drilling is undoubtedly one of the best and easiest ways to run security camera wires through walls, soffit, vinyl siding, etc. If you run a Cat 5/6 Ethernet cable of your security camera, you can just drill a hole to run the Ethernet cable from the camera to your home router or NVR.
How do you hide outdoor security camera wires?
10 Workable Ways To Hide Security Camera Wires Outside
- Way # 1:- Shade the wires to match the walls.
- Way # 2:- Plastic tubing for the wires.
- Way # 3:- Hide the Wires inside the False Ceiling.
- Way # 4:- Inter the Cables inside your Porch or Garden.
- Way # 5:-Build a Cable Run through the building.
How do you splice a power cable for a security camera?
The Power cable spliced by matching the two old wires with the new power wire, each one done separately. For example, if you have a power cable you will see two wires inside it Red Wire & Black wire (Red wire for power, Black wire is the ground wire).
Why does my security camera have so much splicing?
As we know, if there are many splicing in the security camera wires it will affect the quality of recorded videos. Plus, the data transfer inside the wire will be slow and unstable. If you have a short length wire and you want to extend the wire. Moving CCTV camera location will make more splices in wire, Also, when moving DVR.
How do you ring a wire for a security camera?
You can ring it with a knife or use cable cutters and it should pull free towards the cut end of the centre conductor. The cable is now ready for the connector and the cable should now have only the copper centre conductor exposed and the aluminium braid pulled back over the outer jacket.
How do you splice two power cables?
Splice these two power cables together, using wire nuts, by twisting the exposed copper ends together making sure that you twist positive from one cable to the positive from the other cable and the negative wire, or striped wire, from one cable to the negative wire, or striped wire, from the other cable.