Well, I screwed up the pigtail jack on my 5231R-ZE, and it was completely my fault. I was trying out different locations in my backyard, using a premade 50' length of CAT 6, so I was not able to use the weathertight connector that comes with the camera. I am in S Cal, and was not expecting rain any time soon but I kind of kept putting it off to install a permanent cable, and it ended up biting me in the butt. I woke up one morning and the camera was offline. Looking outside I saw a heavy early morning 'fog' so I had a pretty good idea what happened. The first thing I did was to check the pigtail jack and it did not look good. A couple of the pins looked very discolored and when I tried cleaning them up, one actually snapped off. (POE must have shorted and zapped it pretty good).
My first thought was 'there goes $175 down the drain', but then I started googling the problem, I came across several threads where people either added a new punch down type jack or spliced on a new piece of cable. I decided to take the second route and added about a 10' length of cable which actually was the Lemon-aid part, because it worked out better in this case
I tested the damaged jack and the previous pinouts for Dahua cams that I found were right on the money. I had nothing to lose so I got out my solder iron and had at it. It wasn't really that bad. The camera wires are pretty thin and a little hard to work with, but with a little patience, it was doable. I was bery pleased when I fired it back up and it worked as good as new. (thanks to all the previous posters that helped out)
For my own records, I made up this 'wiring diagram for dummies' just in case this happened again. Note - I decided to cut the cable below the branch for the external POE connection because I never used that connector to begin with. Those two wires (red & black) were just capped off. The (4) most important wires, data) were two sets of twisted pairs encased in a foil wrap. I started with those and then finished with the POE wires
Attached are pics of the grandkids treehouse with the camera mounted under the roof overhang. I think it actually worked out better
My first thought was 'there goes $175 down the drain', but then I started googling the problem, I came across several threads where people either added a new punch down type jack or spliced on a new piece of cable. I decided to take the second route and added about a 10' length of cable which actually was the Lemon-aid part, because it worked out better in this case
I tested the damaged jack and the previous pinouts for Dahua cams that I found were right on the money. I had nothing to lose so I got out my solder iron and had at it. It wasn't really that bad. The camera wires are pretty thin and a little hard to work with, but with a little patience, it was doable. I was bery pleased when I fired it back up and it worked as good as new. (thanks to all the previous posters that helped out)
For my own records, I made up this 'wiring diagram for dummies' just in case this happened again. Note - I decided to cut the cable below the branch for the external POE connection because I never used that connector to begin with. Those two wires (red & black) were just capped off. The (4) most important wires, data) were two sets of twisted pairs encased in a foil wrap. I started with those and then finished with the POE wires
Attached are pics of the grandkids treehouse with the camera mounted under the roof overhang. I think it actually worked out better
