Camera's

[<anthony.kirrane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All

Decided to install a camera I have had for about 5 years but never fitted.
It is a Micromark which I bought from Wickes some five years ago.  Anyway I
fitted it on Saturday.  As I had to cut the ends of the supplied cable
anyway
in order to get in through 8mm diameter holes in my house walls I decided
to
replace the supplied cable with Cat5.  So I cut the Din plug off the
supplied
camera wire at one end and connected it up to individual wires in the Cat5
cable.  At the other end of the Cat5 I reconnected the original camera
supplied wire which has a scart plug on the end.

It works...to a degree.  The camera has a very poor picture quality. 
Objects
real close are okay but anything further away than 2 metres is barely
distinguishable.  Also the brightness/contrast is real poor. Anything
farther
than 2 metres with even the smallest amount of light reflection shows up
with
glaring bright white.

So my question is:  Do you think the poor picture quality is just because
of
the cheapo camera or is Cat5 not suitable for this type of application.  I
have taken the housing off the camera and tried to adjust the focus.  Also
found a potentiometer that had the word brightness printed on the PCB.  I
turned this but it had no effect whatsoever and in fact turned infinitely
both ways.

Regards


Anthony


Kind regards


Anthony Kirrane
Application Services
Syntegra
Tel: 01245-458070
Web: www.syntegra.com




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